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MM Side Cart

A lightweight side cart for WooCommerce. A floating button opens a fast drawer to change quantities, remove products and reach checkout.

Active installs<10New
Downloads · 30d125• 0% vs prev. 30d
Rating—0 reviews
Health score64/100Good
All-time downloads118Since Sep 2026
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 6.2PHP 7.4+
Downloads · 7d14▼ -51.7% week over week
Our verdict

Solid choice

MM Side Cart is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. Was last updated 3 weeks ago, and scores 64/100 on our health check.

  • Actively developed — last update 3 weeks ago
  • Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
  • Small user base (<10 active installs)
  • Very few reviews so far

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

122538Sep 28Oct 6Oct 14
Yesterday1
Daily average (1y)7
Peak day51Sep 28, 2026
Last 12 months125

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where MM Side Cart stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
cart drawer #71 234 Best cart drawer plugins →
floating cart >100 645 Best floating cart plugins →
mini cart >100 493 Best mini cart plugins →
side cart >100 1,820 Best side cart plugins →
woocommerce >100 10,000 Best woocommerce plugins →

About MM Side Cart

From the official readme · v0.1

Description

MM Side Cart puts a round cart button on every page of your shop. Customers tap it to slide open a drawer holding everything in their cart, where they can change quantities, remove a product and go straight to checkout without loading the cart page first.

The button is always a circle. The item count sits in a small badge on its rim, and the subtotal appears in a tag beside it on the side facing the page, so turning either on never changes the button’s shape. When a product is added, the badge gives a short pop to confirm it.

The plugin is built to stay out of your theme’s way. Its styles are namespaced and self-contained, so the drawer looks the same on classic and block themes, and every colour, size and spacing value is a setting.

WooCommerce stays in charge

The plugin never calculates a price, a total or a stock limit of its own. Prices, subtotals, quantity minimums, quantity steps and stock limits all come from WooCommerce, so a quantity typed into the drawer is checked against the same rules the cart page uses. Changes made in the drawer are real cart changes, visible everywhere on your site immediately.

Built for real sites

  • No JavaScript framework, no icon font, no external requests. The stylesheet and script are loaded only on pages where the cart is shown.
  • Nothing is polled. The cart stays in sync through WooCommerce’s own cart fragments and events.
  • Works with page caching. If a cached page carries an expired security token, the drawer sends the customer to the real cart page instead of silently failing.
  • Full keyboard support: the drawer is a proper dialog with focus trapping, an Escape shortcut and screen-reader announcements when the cart changes.
  • Right-to-left ready. Positions and spacing are written with logical CSS, so a right-hand button becomes a left-hand button automatically.
  • Respects the “reduce motion” setting in the visitor’s operating system.
  • Compatible with High-Performance Order Storage and with the Cart and Checkout blocks.

Settings

Fifty-four settings across four tabs:

  • General – turn the cart on or off, choose which pages and which visitors see it, hide it on the cart and checkout pages, hide it while the cart is empty, open the drawer automatically after a product is added, and pick one of four cart icons.
  • Cart Button – item count badge, subtotal tag, position, size, icon size, distance from the edges and shadow.
  • Cart Drawer – which side it opens from, width, page dimming, close behaviour, product images, variation details, quantity controls, remove buttons, subtotal, and the wording of the two action buttons.
  • Styling – fifteen colours, page dimming strength, corner radius, base text size, spacing scale and typeface.

Installation

  1. Upload the mm-side-cart folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install the plugin from the Plugins screen in WordPress.
  2. Activate MM Side Cart through the Plugins screen.
  3. Go to MM Side Cart in the admin menu.

The defaults are usable straight away, so you can activate the plugin and leave every setting alone. WooCommerce 8.0 or newer must be active; if it is not, the plugin stays completely inactive and tells you why on the Plugins screen.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to edit my theme?

No. The plugin adds itself to the footer of every page it is enabled on and positions itself over your content.

Can the button change shape?

No, and that is deliberate. The button is always a circle in one of three sizes. The count and the subtotal are placed around the circle rather than inside it, so they never stretch it.

Will it clash with my theme’s styling?

Every rule in the plugin’s stylesheet is scoped to its own class names, and all of its colours and sizes come from CSS custom properties rather than from your theme. Four declarations use !important, each defending against a specific and common theme behaviour, and each is commented in the stylesheet.

Does it work with a caching plugin?

Yes. No visitor-specific data is printed into the cached page beyond the cart markup itself, which WooCommerce keeps up to date through its cart fragments. If a cached page is old enough that its security token has expired, the drawer opens the cart page rather than failing quietly.

Does it work with the Cart and Checkout blocks?

Yes, and it hides itself on those pages by default. When your site uses the block-based cart, the plugin also watches WooCommerce’s Blocks data store so changes made there are picked up.

Can I change the markup?

Yes. Copy any file from the plugin’s templates folder into yourtheme/mm-side-cart/ and edit it there. There are also seventeen filters and eight actions; see the plugin’s README.md for the full list.

What happens to my settings if I delete the plugin?

They are removed. Deleting the plugin deletes the two option rows it created and nothing else. No cart, order or customer data is touched.

Why does the drawer need jQuery?

Only to listen. Every WooCommerce cart event is a jQuery custom event, and a native browser listener never receives those. The plugin uses jQuery for that one job and plain JavaScript for everything else. jQuery is already loaded on every WooCommerce shop front end.

Changelog

First release.

0.1

  • First release.

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

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FAQ

MM Side Cart: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 15, 2026

Is MM Side Cart free?

Yes. MM Side Cart is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is MM Side Cart safe to use in 2026?

MM Side Cart is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. Was last updated 3 weeks ago, and scores 64/100 on our health check.

How many websites use MM Side Cart?

MM Side Cart is active on <10 WordPress websites and has been downloaded 118 times since it launched in September 2026. It was downloaded 125 times in the last 30 days.

Does MM Side Cart work with WordPress 7.1?

Yes. The developer has tested MM Side Cart up to WordPress 7.1.3, the latest release. It requires WordPress 6.2 or newer.

What PHP version does MM Side Cart need?

MM Side Cart requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was MM Side Cart last updated?

The latest version, 0.1, was released on September 28, 2026 (3 weeks ago).

Who makes MM Side Cart?

MM Side Cart is developed and maintained by MM Web.

What are the best alternatives to MM Side Cart?

The most popular alternatives to MM Side Cart are Side Cart Woocommerce (80K+ installs), Modern Cart (60K+ installs) and CartPops (4K+ installs).

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