I post this as an answer, since its to long for a comment.
I dont know if this will fit your needs, since its a little bit complicated and I also link to a seperate plugin which I used successfully.
So if the answer dont fit, feel free to vote another one!
You said you just disabled the add to cart button via CSS, but this is unsafe, because the button is still there only not visible. Instead you should remove the button via the available WooCommerce hooks, something like:
(UPDATED)
// remove add to cart button for every product
add_action( 'init', 'prfx_remove_add_to_cart_button');
function prfx_remove_add_to_cart_button() {
remove_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item', 'woocommerce_template_loop_add_to_cart', 10); // catalog page
remove_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', 'woocommerce_template_single_add_to_cart', 30); // single product page
}
Or you could also use a WooCommerce filter and disable the purchase of these products (add to cart button disappears), like:
add_filter('woocommerce_is_purchasable', 'prfx_is_product_purchasbale');
function prfx_is_product_purchasbale($purchasable, $product) {
// you could check agains a meta option, or maybe if a shortcode exists in this product
if ($product->id == 132) {
$purchasable = false;
}
return $purchasable;
}
Anyway I realised a similar system using the following setup:
I used the following plugins:
- Contact Form 7
- Contact Form 7 Get and Show Parameter from URL (available here)
The “Contact Form 7 Get and Show Parameter from URL” plugin was last updated a long time ago and there already are some problems with this old code.
Others and also I myself, created a fixed version of this plugin, for example here: https://github.com/LWS-Web/contact-form-7-get-and-show-parameter-from-url
The plugin can be used for the following:
There are times when using the Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin where
you need to pass a parameter from the URL and into a hidden field or
display it in the form. This plugin is great for passing things such
as order numbers, selected packages, or even security information.
The idea is:
Creating a link on the product page, which contains the product title and, for example, the ID of the product. If the link is clicked, the contact form will open, and the title and ID of the product are still available via URL parameters.
The title and ID can than be shown on the form and mail.
Here is a summery of what I did:
1. Create a new Contact Form 7 form, and inserted it on a page with the slug product-inquiry.
2. Create a link on the single product page which looks like this for example:
<a href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/340682/<insert your home-url>/product-inquiry/?product-title=<insert your product-title>&product-id=<insert your product-id>">Product Inquiry</a>
So in the frontend/browser this link will look like/point to:
https://example.com/product-inquiry/?product-title=My Product&product-id=132
(UPDATE)
You should use WooCommerce hooks to insert the new button in place of the old button.
Also if you use variations, its get compicated fast.
For example, you could insert the inquiry button with something like this:
// add inquiry button into every product
// we use the same hooks as before, to insert the new content on the same spot
add_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item', 'prfx_add_inquiry_button', 10); // catalog page
add_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', 'prfx_add_inquiry_button', 30); // single product page
function prfx_add_inquiry_button() {
$current_product_id = get_the_ID(); // get ID of the current post
$current_product_title = get_the_title(); // get the title of the current post
$product = wc_get_product( $current_product_id ); // get the product object
// create a button for variable/variant products
if ($product->is_type( 'variable' )) {
$variations = $product->get_available_variations(); // get all available variations of the current product
if ($variations) {
foreach ($variations as $variation) {
if ($variation['variation_is_active'] == 1) {
echo '<div>';
// use this to see all available data
// print_r($variation);
$variation_price_html = $variation['price_html']; // variation price html, for example "€150,00 incl. vat"
$variation_id = $variation['variation_id']; // variation ID, for example "2006"
$variation_title = get_the_title( $variation_id ); // variation title, for example "Beanie with Logo - red, medium"
// we create a button for each single available variation
echo '<a href="'.home_url('/product-inquiry').'/?product-title=".$variation_title."&product-id='.$variation_id.'" class="button">';
echo $variation_title; // show title
echo '<br>';
echo $variation_price_html; // show price html
echo '</a>';
echo '</div><br>';
}
}
}
// create a button for simple products
} elseif ($product->is_type( 'simple' )) {
echo '<a href="'.home_url('/product-inquiry').'/?product-title=".$current_product_title."&product-id='.$current_product_id.'" class="button">';
echo $current_product_title;
echo '</a>';
}
}
If you click the link, the page with the inquiryform opens, and you will see in the url, that the product title and also ID is available as parameters.
So now you can use some shortcodes (coming from the Contact Form 7 Get and Show Parameter from URL plugin) to show and work with these url parameters.
[getparam product-title] > Get the value of the “product-title” URL parameter-from-url. (not visible on frontend)
[showparam product-title] > SHOW/USE the value in the contact form.
[getparam product-id] … same as above
[showparam product-id] … same as above
3. Edit your inquiry form and insert some text with shortcodes on the form like:
[getparam product-title][getparam product-id]
<p>Inquiry for product: [showparam product-title] ([showparam product-id]) </p>
This will than show text on the frontend like Inquiry for product: My Product (132).
4. Last, edit the mail settings of the form.
Here you can now use shortcodes like [product-title] and [product-id] to get these values into the send mail!
The available shortcodes are listed on the top of the page.