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Cart and add-to-cart stay visible in catalog mode

With catalog mode on, the cart, mini cart, account links, and add-to-cart buttons stay visible in some themes, and the cart may still work.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 25 August 2018 · last reported 11 July 2025

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners who switch their WooCommerce store to catalog mode report that the cart, mini cart, account links, and add-to-cart buttons remain on pages, especially with popular themes such as Astra and default WordPress themes.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.