Ian WooCommerce uses a number of global variables, if you’ve spent any time looking at code snippets then you’ll often see code like this global $product; Which is used to get a reference to the current product that is being displayed, typically on the shop screen or the single product page. Recently whilst looking through the … Read more
As a WordPress developer you sometimes want to log or view debug information from your code, WordPress provides a number of methods to do this, but it’s not always easy to know which method to use or how to set-up the various methods correctly. In this article we will go through how to use the … Read more
In the comments section for the The Ultimate Guide to Woocommerce Shortcodes (WITH GENERATORS) post someone has asked a question about adding custom data to the pods on the shop screen, the person who asked the question mentioned the possibility of using a plugin but it’s possible to add extra data to the pods using a … Read more
On the WooCommerce single product page there is an “Add to cart” button In most cases people will want the button to appear as they’ll want to make it as easy as possible to buy products in their store. I have seen requests to remove the button though, and replace it with text such as … Read more
All of the archive pages (the shop page, category pages, the search page etc) have an “Add to cart” button displayed below the products As you can see from the image not all products have a button that reads “Add to cart”, variable products have a button that reads “Select options”, in this article we … Read more
In a typical ecommerce store the “Add to Cart Button” is very important, as it is getting customer’s to click that button that is going to put money in the bank. A while ago I came across an issue where a store owner wanted to remove the “Add to Cart” button from products in a … Read more
When I first started learning WooCommerce development I was struck by the lack of resources that took you through what you need to learn in order to become a competent WooCommerce developer. If you search for WooCommerce development tips online you’ll mostly find code snippets which solve a specific problem but don’t really give you … Read more
Is WooCommerce Development worth learning in 2021? I would say the answer to this question is a definite yes. As sales of online goods keep increasing this is definitely a good time to launch a WooCommerce store or to start thinking about learning to code WooCommerce in order to boost your skill set, but what … Read more
Once the shipping functionality is turned on, WooCommerce allows you to set up shipping costs for products in your store. But if you are selling virtual products then you probably won’t want to charge shipping on those items. If you’re only thinking of selling virtual items then WooCommerce provides you with an option to not … Read more
After adding a product to the cart in WooCommerce a message is displayed on the screen to inform the user that an item has been added to the cart The message above appears on the single product screen after an item has been added to the cart (for this example I’m using the Storefront theme, … Read more