Once the WooCommerce plugin has been installed you can access details of all the WooCommerce products in your store via the admin area of your WordPress site, but as a developer you may wish to access product data directly in the database, either for reporting purposes or to access a specific piece of data. It … Read more
I was asked a question the other day about retrieving a user’s details from an order programmatically, since WooCommerce 3.0 it is reasonably easy to extract a user’s details but there are a number of methods that can be used and we also need to consider how WooCommerce stores address data for the “My Account” … Read more
WordPress has it’s own rewrite API which it uses to prettify URLs, to give a specific WooCommerce example the shop URL http://wooexp.local/shop/ can be rewritten as http://wooexp.local/index.php?post_type=product If you type the URL above into a browser (changing the host from the I’m using on a Local by Flywheel test site to your site) then you … Read more
The Problem Adding a custom field to a product in WooCoomerce is a very popular request, and whilst it might seem a little daunting to add a field and then get the data entered into the field to display throughout the cart, order, and back-end order process we can actually accomplish the task using only … Read more
The Problem Although WooCommerce provides an admin interface to add coupons, sometimes we might want to create a coupon on the fly in code rather than adding one via the admin interface. In this article we’ll look at how to create WooCommerce coupon programmatically, this will include a reasonably in-depth look at the various options … 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
On the WooCommerce single product page there are a number of tabs that are shown by default on each product page. They will typically look similar to the image below What if we wanted to change the text one of the tabs? Well, we could do it using the snippet below /* * @snippet Rename … Read more
If you’ve ever done any coding in WordPress then you may have used the is_single() function, it’s super useful for finding out if you’re on a specific single post page function hwn_filter_content_using_issingle($content) { if( is_single(35) && is_main_query() ) { $new_content = ‘<p>This bonus content is added to the bottom of post 35.</p>’; $content .= $new_content; … 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