Divi and WooCommerce give you a cart icon, but functionality is basic at best. It often lives in the secondary menu bar, shares styling with other links, and fights you every time you try to match a polished, on-brand header. That’s why most serious stores outgrow the default setup fast.

Specialized cart plugins fix three pain points in one go:

1. Placement freedom – drop the cart wherever you want using modules.
2. Control how it behaves – keep shoppers on the page with a side cart.
3. Dial in visuals – treat the icon, badge, and price as separate design elements.

In this guide, you’ll see five plugins, from free workarounds to real power tools, scored on Divi Builder integration, AJAX behavior, styling, pricing, and Divi 5-readiness. Here we go!

5 key takeaways

• A reliable header cart quietly shapes how confident shoppers feel as they browse – and confidence means conversions.
• The real decision is not just a feature comparison but one that considers ease of workflow and trouble-free interactions for browsers. 
• Prioritize plugins that keep people on the page while still making it obvious how to view, edit, and complete their cart.
• Future-proofing beats clever hacks, so be sure to choose a plugin that’s equipped for Divi 5.
• Pairing Divi Cart Module with Divi Side Cart creates a clear, modular foundation you can build upon as your store grows.

The best menu cart plugins for Divi compared

If you want a proper WooCommerce-style cart in your Divi header, there are a few good options ranging from freebies with limited features to polished premium tools with slide-out panels and deep styling controls. We’ll compare the best of them so you can choose once, build fast, and avoid future regrets.

Divi Cart Module by Divi Life

Our own Divi Cart Module behaves like a VIP in the Divi arena. It registers as a native module, so you can drop it into any row, column, or Theme Builder header instead of being stuck with the default menu locations. 

Such flexibility makes it perfect for more advanced header layouts and mega headers where the cart needs to sit alongside search, promo text, or secondary CTAs.​

Design-wise, the module enables users to treat the icon, item count, and price as separate design layers, each with its own typography, color, and spacing controls. You can hide or show each element, and dial in the cart’s visual weight without any major workarounds. It also exposes custom singular/plural strings, which is great for multilingual or niche sites, as preferred terminology (e.g., ‘items’ instead of ‘boxes’) is always made visible. 

Divi Cart Module is confirmed as being Divi 5-compatible and following Divi’s visual builder conventions, which keeps it low-maintenance for agencies managing many stores. Pricing sits at $49/year or $99 lifetime for unlimited sites, and it’s naturally included in our All Access Pass – a big saver for those needing multiple features across multiple sites.

Divi Side Cart by Divi Life 

Next up, our Divi Side Cart extension handles the post ‘add to cart’ part of the equation by injecting an off-canvas panel that slides in without a page reload.

Shoppers get an instant, AJAX-powered confirmation with full cart details while staying on the current page, which removes a major source of checkout drop-off. The panel auto-opens when a product is added and can also be called from a floating cart icon that stays visible no matter how far users scroll.​

“Where Divi Side Cart gets really fun is in its trigger potential. You can fire the side cart from the built-in floating icon, from Divi’s default header cart, or from any element by adding the dl-menu-cart CSS trigger class.” 

– Jennifer Rodriguez, Lead Designer at Divi Life

That means buttons, images, or even text links in your mega menu can open the cart on demand. The settings panel lets you customize the header, product list area, buttons, and empty-cart message, so you can turn a dead-end state into a gentle ‘push’ back to your shop. 

Pricing matches Divi Cart Module at $49/year or $99 lifetime for unlimited sites, and the two together give you a complementary workflow – Cart Module for display in the header, Side Cart for the interactive cart experience. 

For more advanced Theme Builder headers, Divi Life’s side cart documentation can walk through a small JavaScript tweak that reroutes the default cart link to trigger the side cart instead, so everything feels unified. 

Menu Cart Divi by learnhowwp 

Menu Cart Divi is a free plugin on WordPress.org, which makes it an easy choice for budget-conscious stores or small projects that still need a proper header cart. It adds a dedicated Menu Cart module to the Divi Builder, so you can place a live cart icon with item count and price anywhere in your Theme Builder header.​

The module includes toggles to show or hide the icon, count, and price, plus separate singular and plural text strings. That helps with international site localization and stores that use specific terminology. 

However, there’s no built-in mini cart or side cart, so clicking the icon still sends shoppers to the standard WooCommerce /cart/ page. If you want an interactive slide-out or dropdown experience, you’ll need to pair Menu Cart Divi with a dedicated side-cart plugin.

Divi Menu Cart by Powdi Studio

Divi Menu Cart focuses on getting the icon in the right place by letting you inject a WooCommerce cart into your primary, footer, or mobile menu without touching PHP filters. That alone fixes a problem for many Divi sites that are stuck with the cart in the secondary menu bar. 

It also provides a [divi_menu_cart] shortcode, so you can render the cart inside text modules, widgets, or other areas where a module is not available.​

You can upload a custom image for the cart icon, which is handy when your brand uses a bespoke icon set instead of the usual FontAwesome-style glyphs. The plugin includes options for aligning the cart with the hamburger icon in mobile menus, giving you a cleaner mobile header than Divi’s default. 

Divi Menu Cart sells for a one-time $12 on the Elegant Themes Marketplace and focuses on placement and icon behavior only, so you’ll still need a separate solution if you want a dropdown or side cart panel. With Divi 5 phasing out shortcodes in Builder content, there’s also some uncertainty around how this plugin will evolve for future compatibility.

Divi Cart Count Plugin by Divi.Help 

Divi Cart Count Plugin targets a specific headache – those situations where the built-in Divi cart icon behaves differently across breakpoints, or disappears entirely on tablet and mobile. It gives you multiple cart-count display styles, including compact badges, inline text with or without price, and variants tuned for desktop versus smaller screens. You can also hide the count when the cart is empty to keep the header clean.​

The plugin supports custom cart icons via uploaded images or SVG, and offers a shortcode so you can drop the cart anywhere outside the stock menu locations. It plays nicely with AJAX add-to-cart behavior, so the count updates without forcing a full page reload. 

Divi Cart Count Plugin is bundled inside the $399/lifetime Divi.Help All Access Pass rather than sold on its own, which makes it more attractive if you already rely on that ecosystem’s layouts and tools instead of buying it purely for cart count fixes.

Optimize your menu cart with Divi Life 

For most Divi store owners, pairing the Divi Cart Module for display with Divi Side Cart for interaction gives the strongest mix of design control, user experience, and Divi 5-readiness. 

The cart module plugs straight into the Divi Builder, so you can style it like any other module instead of juggling custom CSS. The side cart then handles the unseen stuff with AJAX updates and a slide-out panel that keeps shoppers in the catalog instead of dumping them on the /cart/ page mid-browse.

At $49/year each (or $99 lifetime), our plugins are geared toward stores that care about conversions and long-term stability rather than quick hacks. And if you want maximum value, the All Access Pass wraps both plugins into Divi Life’s broader toolkit.

Ready to go?

• Get Divi Cart Module and upgrade your header cart.
• Add Divi Side Cart to unlock a high-converting slide-out cart.

FAQs 

What’s the difference between a Divi menu cart and a mini cart? 

A Divi menu cart is the static cart indicator in your header. It usually shows a cart icon, an item-count badge, and optionally the current cart total, so shoppers can see their cart status at a glance without leaving the page.

A mini cart (or side cart) is the interactive panel that opens when someone clicks or taps the menu cart. It shows product thumbnails, quantities, remove buttons, and links to view cart or checkout, all without navigating away from the page visited.

Think of the menu cart as the signpost and the mini cart as the interface. The most effective setups use both – the menu cart triggers a mini cart or side cart instead of sending users straight to the /cart/ page.

Can the Divi menu cart show the cart’s total price? 

Yes, but you usually need a dedicated cart plugin rather than relying on Divi’s default modules. Most Divi-focused cart plugins include a toggle to show or hide the cart total alongside the icon and item count.

In plugins like Menu Cart Divi and Divi Cart Module, the price display is controlled by a simple checkbox inside the module settings. Enable it, and your header cart will show the running total as shoppers add products. Disable it if you prefer a cleaner, icon-only layout.

This flexibility lets you experiment to your heart’s content. For example, you can show the total on desktop for clarity while keeping things minimal on mobile, where space is tight.

How do I make the Divi menu cart icon trigger a side cart to open?

If you are using Divi Side Cart by Divi Life, the quickest method is to add the CSS class dl-menu-cart to any clickable element in your header. 

In the Divi Builder, open the element’s settings, go to Advanced > CSS ID & Classes, and enter dl-menu-cart in the CSS Class field. Clicking that element will now open the side cart panel instead of following a link.​

For the default cart icon inside Divi’s Menu Module in a Theme Builder header, you usually need a small jQuery snippet. That script removes the href attribute from the cart link and adds the dl-menu-cart class dynamically, turning the default cart into a Side Cart trigger. Divi Life includes more ready-to-paste code and setup steps in the Divi Side Cart documentation.

Find out more with our guide to adding and removing Divi’s cart icon from the menu.

Can you show me how to style my Divi cart icon to look like Shopify’s? 

The classic ‘Shopify-style’ cart uses a simple bag icon with a small circular badge overlapping the top-right corner for the item count. 

To mimic this with Divi’s native icon, you can use CSS to change the ETmodules glyph from the default cart (\e000) to the bag (\e013) by targeting the menu cart icon’s ::after pseudo-element on .et_pb_menu__cart-button.

Then you can style the badge element (e.g. .et_pb_menu__cart-count) with border-radius: 50%, a contrasting background color, white text, and position: absolute so it overlaps the top-right of the bag icon, while setting overflow: visible on the parent. 

If you prefer not to touch CSS, plugins such as Divi Menu Cart by Powdi and Divi Cart Count Plugin by Divi.Help let you upload a custom icon image or SVG directly, and handle the display for you.

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