WooCommerce Blog: Tips, PHP Snippets, Q&A, Plugin & Theme Reviews

WooCommerce: Assigning Truck Routes to Customer Orders

In a Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a member recently sought advice on a unique WooCommerce shipping scenario: they support a small wholesale business with dedicated delivery trucks for specific areas and wanted to add a custom field for each customer identifying the truck route associated with their delivery location.

The goal was to include this truck route metadata in every order, which would then be uploaded to the warehouse system. This setup presents a few challenges, particularly when it comes to associating specific trucks with customers and orders automatically.

Here’s an overview of our discussion, including plugin options and code snippet solutions to accomplish this.

Essential Security Tips for WooCommerce: Preventing Hacks on Your WordPress Store

In a Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a WooCommerce user shared a serious concern: despite running the latest versions of WordPress and WooCommerce with minimal plugins and no custom themes, their website had been repeatedly hacked.

This is especially concerning for WooCommerce sites handling customer data and transactions. After consulting with the hosting provider, they found no unusual attack logs. Despite following standard security practices, the website was compromised again.

Here, we’ll cover key tips and strategies discussed in our community to strengthen your WooCommerce site’s security and pinpoint any vulnerabilities, ensuring a safer experience for both you and your customers.

WooCommerce: Apply Coupon @ Single Product Page

In WooCommerce, applying a coupon code is often part of the checkout flow, but wouldn’t it be convenient for customers to select a coupon directly on the product page before adding items to their cart?

By letting users apply discounts right at the start, you’re streamlining the shopping experience and increasing the likelihood of conversions.

In this post, we’ll show you a quick and effective code snippet to add this functionality to your WooCommerce store. With just a few lines, you’ll empower customers to apply their favorite discount on the product page itself, making the shopping process faster and more engaging.

This guide is perfect for store owners looking to improve user experience and simplify coupon management. Let’s dive in and get this feature running on your product pages!

WooCommerce Product Page Optimization: Bringing Variations, Add to Cart, and Reviews Above the Fold

In a Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a member asked about optimizing their WooCommerce product page to keep essential elements—such as product variations, the add-to-cart button, reviews, and discount badges—above the fold.

This layout change is often seen as a way to enhance user experience and conversion by placing critical details immediately within view. But when it comes to SEO and modern user expectations, is above-the-fold positioning really necessary?

Our community had some valuable insights, balancing layout, SEO considerations, and the evolving habits of online shoppers. Here’s a look at the discussion and practical advice on structuring product pages to best serve visitors and search engines alike.

WooCommerce Store Toolkit: A Powerful Yet Overlooked Plugin for Store Management

For WooCommerce store owners, finding the right tools to streamline store management is always a priority. Recently, in a Slack conversation, a plugin builder recommended an often-overlooked but feature-packed plugin: WooCommerce Store Toolkit.

This toolkit is loaded with a variety of options to help optimize store operations and address day-to-day challenges, from inventory management to store customization. The plugin, while powerful, has had a complicated history, with periods of inactivity and lack of updates under its previous owner. It was only recently acquired by a new developer, potentially promising more maintenance and future improvements.

Here’s a closer look at why WooCommerce Store Toolkit might be worth considering, especially with its recent acquisition, which hints at a brighter future.

WooCommerce: Enable Product Reviews for Logged Out Verified Customers

In WooCommerce, product reviews are a powerful way to build trust and encourage future purchases.

If you want to avoid spam, you’d usually select the “Reviews can only be left by verified owners” option, so that only logged in customers can leave reviews.

This can be limiting, especially if you want to allow verified buyers who are not logged in to share their feedback, without forcing them to log in first.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to customize WooCommerce to allow logged-out verified customers to leave product reviews.

With a simple PHP snippet, we’ll adjust WooCommerce review settings to accept reviews from users who have purchased a product, regardless of their login status. This way, you can enhance the customer experience while maintaining authenticity and security for product feedback.

Let’s dive into the code and get started!

WooCommerce: Automatically Apply Coupon Via URL

Recently, I decided to hide the “Apply coupon” form on the cart and checkout page. A coupon form can “distract” potential customers and have them to abandon the checkout to go looking for discount codes.

However, offering discounts is still a crucial strategy to encourage purchases and reward loyal customers. For example, the Business Bloomer Club lifetime membership is subject to Purchasing Power Parity discounts, and customers can get from 5% to 75% off based on their billing country – via a coupon.

The best compromise here is to apply coupons when customers visit specific URLs. In this way, you can simplify the checkout process, reduce friction, and potentially increase conversion rates.

In this blog post, I’ll guide you through the steps to set up automatic coupon application in WooCommerce, ensuring a seamless and efficient experience for both you and your customers. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: How to Cross-Sell on Other Stores to Expand Your Reach

Growing an ecommerce store isn’t getting any easier. With acquisition costs skyrocketing—up 222% over the last eight years—relying solely on paid ads is becoming less sustainable. Plus, new competitors are entering the market in droves, making it even harder to attract and retain customers.

So how do you cut through the noise and stand out?

One clever strategy is cross-selling your products on other stores.

In simple terms, this means making your products available for sale on complementary ecommerce stores. By partnering with stores that align with your brand or leveraging your own network of stores, you can introduce your products to new customer bases, boosting your visibility and sales—all without spending a cent on ads. Meanwhile, your partner and expansion stores get to effortlessly expand their product offerings. Win-win.

Cross-selling is one of the few low-cost ways to drive fast, meaningful sales in this crowded market. It’s also a key reason why we developed the Syncio plugin—to help WooCommerce stores grow through seamless collaboration.

Of course, like any growth strategy, cross-selling comes with its own challenges. From managing products across stores to finding the right partners, it requires the right tools and approach to work. In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to efficiently cross-sell your WooCommerce products across stores.

WooCommerce: Rename My Account Endpoint Page Title

But first… what’s a WooCommerce My Account endpoint page title?

An endpoint refers to a specific tab of the “My Account” page, where customers can access various functionalities like viewing their orders, managing downloads, or updating addresses.

Each endpoint is associated with a H1 page title, which is displayed in the browser and helps users identify the content of that page.

For example, the default endpoint title for the orders tab is “Orders”. The page title for the downloads tab is “Downloads”. Pay attention – this is not about the tab label, but it’s the page title when a tab is clicked.

Customizing these endpoint page titles allows you to create a more intuitive and branded experience for your customers, making it easier for them to navigate the account area and find the information they need.

Let’s do it!

WooCommerce: Hide My Account “Downloads” Tab If User Has No Downloads

In WooCommerce, the “Downloads” tab of the My Account page is automatically visible to all users, even if they haven’t purchased any downloadable products. This can lead to a less-than-optimal user experience, as the tab might seem irrelevant or confusing to customers who don’t have any available downloads.

In this post, I’ll show you how to hide the “Downloads” tab for users who don’t have any downloadable products linked to their account.

With just a simple code snippet, you can make your WooCommerce store more streamlined and user-friendly by ensuring that only the customers who need to access the downloads section will see it in their account.

Whether you’re new to WooCommerce development or just looking for a way to tidy up the My Account page, this guide will walk you through everything you need. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Remove “Create shipping label” Ad @ Single Order Admin Page

Here we go again. It feels like the WooCommerce plugin has become the same as some of those free extensions you get from the repo that fill up the WordPress dashboard with ads, notices and banners.

This time around, let’s get rid of the “Print discounted shipping labels with a click. By clicking “Create shipping label”, WooCommerce Shipping will be installed and you agree to its Terms of Service. Create shipping label” banner that displays at the top (!) of the single order admin page when the status is processing or completed and shipping is required (see screenshot below).

Long live a world without ads!

WooCommerce: Prevent Orders From Blacklisted Email Addresses

In some cases, you may need to block certain customers from completing orders on your WooCommerce store.

This could be due to fraud prevention, policy violations, or simply wanting to prevent repeat offenders from making purchases. Thankfully, WooCommerce provides the flexibility to implement an email blacklist with just a few lines of code.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add a simple email blacklist using a custom function that checks the customer’s email at checkout. By adding these 8 lines of PHP to your theme’s functions.php file, you’ll be able to prevent orders from specific email addresses efficiently. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Sale End Date Countdown Timer

Are you tired of the same old “Sale!” badge on your WooCommerce products? Want to create a more engaging and dynamic shopping experience for your customers?

In this blog post, we’ll guide you through a simple PHP/JS customization that replaces the static “Sale!” badge on the WooCommerce Single Product page with a captivating countdown timer. This will not only add excitement to your product page but also encourage customers to make a purchase before the sale ends.

Get ready to elevate your WooCommerce store and boost your sales with this effective customization. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Fit All Settings In One Page

In the world of WooCommerce, customization is crucial for creating a unique online store. However, juggling numerous WooCommerce settings across multiple pages can be tedious.

Imagine a solution that simplifies this process by consolidating all your WooCommerce options into a single, easy-to-use interface.

This tutorial will give you a possible approach and try to fit all WooCommerce Settings into a single screen (so, on the same page, you can edit the general, products, shipping, payments, advanced, etc. options).

Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Custom “Empty Cart” Button

A dedicated “Empty Cart” button can significantly streamline the customer journey on your WooCommerce website.

Yes, you can manually change the product quantities to 0 on the cart page, or click on the “remove item” icon for each product… but having a button that can do all that could be a time saver, especially for B2B WooCommerce customers.

This post will guide you through creating a custom empty cart button. We’ll cover a code-based solution that uses jQuery to listen to button clicks and Ajax to trigger the empty cart function.

Enjoy!

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