Adding a cart icon to the menu

Users like to be able to view both the number of items and the total value that they have in their cart. If you can display this information on every page, then users won't have to constantly check the cart page. They should have to spend less time double-checking their numbers and get through your site quicker. This should improve your conversion rates.

Getting ready

Before we begin, you should have a menu already created in WordPress. We'll be adding the cart icon to that menu.

How to do it…

The following steps demonstrate a plugin that allows you to add a cart icon to the menu and provides several options that you can customize:

1. In the WordPress admin, click on the Plugins menu and then on Add New.
2. Run a search for the WooCommerce Menu Cart plugin.
3. Install and activate the plugin.

   This plugin works for WooCommerce and other WordPress e-commerce platforms. That's great, but it does mean that the settings are a bit harder to find.

4. Go to Settings...