When making modifications to a WooCommerce store it’s common to want to access a product’s price, either to perform a calculation or to display the details on screen. This may seem like a simple task, but WooCommerce has a lot of price functions and it can be difficult to know which one to use. We … Read more
The WooCommerce thank you page displays default instructions for a payment type, here’s an image showing the text that is displayed when an order has been paid using the “Cash on delivery” payment method. If you’re looking to change or remove this text it can be done without changing any code, if you want to … 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 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
Problem Online stores will typically need to link to the categories of products sold in the store, but they may not want to hard code the links into the sites HTML as changes to the URL structure could then break links within the site. One way around this problem is to use PHP code to … Read more
The Problem When adding functionality to a WooCommerce store we sometimes want to add features that should only be present on category or tag pages. In this article, we’ll take a look at how we can detect category and tag pages in our WooCommerce code. The Solution This code will detect if the user is … Read more
If you’ve thought about modifying your WooCommerce store then you’ve probably come across code snippets online, code snippets can be useful and provide the ability to add extra functionality to your store with a simple copy and paste, but how should you add a snippet to your store? What’s the best way to add a … Read more
Filters in WordPress allow you to alter content without directly altering core WordPress files, they also allow you to alter dynamically generated content before it is shown to users. As WooCommerce is built on top of WordPress filters are used extensively, and if you want to learn how to modify WooCommerce you’ll need to build … Read more
When I first started messing around with WordPress I wanted to add a PHP page to a site that I could use as a sandbox to test code, I ideally wanted the page to be able to access all of the WordPress libraries and functions so I could test WordPress functionality and not just PHP … Read more