Have you ever wanted to add a custom message or some bespoke functionality to the “thank you” WooCommerce page that appears after a customer has paid for and checked out their order? If you have then the woocommerce_thankyou action is probably exactly what you are looking for. In this blog post we’ll take a look … Read more
In the previous two articles we looked at using the $wp_filter and $wp_actions to list the filters and actions that were fired on a page. Having looked at how this can be done in code I wanted to finish off the series by taking look at a plugin that does the same job. The Query … Read more
The global objects $wp_filter and $wp_actions hold details about the hooks that are registered and fire during the WordPress page load process. If you’ve ever looked at any code that use the two objects, it can be difficult to work out how the objects differ and what data each of the objects hold. In this … Read more
Actions and Filters are key to the functionality of WordPress and WooCommerce but it can can sometimes be difficult to work out what filters and actions have fired on a page. In this article we’re going to take a look at how to list the filters and actions that get fired on a page, we’ll … Read more
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
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
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
Some times when looking at WordPress or WooCommerce code you might see something like this <?php $value = “Hi there!”; ?> <div> <strong><?=$value?></strong> </div> The very simple example above would render the following to the screen So what is the <?=$value?> code doing? From the example above you might have worked out that <?=$value?> is shorthand for writing … Read more
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