Here is a collection of tips, snippets, customizations, plugin reviews and how-to tutorials to answer your biggest WooCommerce questions, curated by Rodolfo Melogli.
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WooCommerce allows you to limit shipping by countries (or “allowed” countries). However, say your business is based in Pennsylvania, USA (PA) or in one of the Australian states. You may want to limit shipping to a state only.
All you need is pasting the following code in your functions.php Continue reading WooCommerce: Limit Shipping to One State Only
You may want to force users to login in order to see prices and add products to cart. That means you must hide add to cart buttons and prices on the Shop and Single Product pages when a user is logged out.
All you need is pasting the following code in your functions.php (please note: your theme may have overwritten some default WooCommerce functions, hence the code below may not work. Contact me if you need custom code). Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Hide Price & Add to Cart for Logged Out Users
You may want to disable the WooCommerce variable product price range which usually looks like $100-$999 when variations have different prices (min $100 and max $999 in this case).
With this snippet you will be able to hide the highest price, and add a “From: ” prefix in front of the minimum price. At the same time, variable products with a single price (i.e. all variations have the same price) will keep their original format, so won’t display the “From: ” prefix.
Simply paste the following code in your child theme’s functions.php and enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Disable Variable Product Price Range $$$-$$$
You may want to disable payment gateways depending on the logged in user role. For example, you may want to disable PayPal for user role “subscriber” or enable a specific gateway for user role “customer”.
All you need is to paste the following code in your functions.php or to install a super simple plugin. Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Disable Payment Gateway for Specific User Role
If Free Shipping is available, you possibly don’t want to show the other premium shipping options. WooCommerce shows by default all shipping rates that match a given shipping zone, so it’s not possible to achieve this from the settings alone.
Thankfully, the “woocommerce_package_rates” filter allows us to manipulate the shipping rates before they are returned to the frontend. In this example, we will disable all shipping methods but “Free Shipping” so that free shipping remains the only possible choice.
Here’s the code to add to your functions.php. Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Hide Shipping Rates if Free Shipping Available
If you want to show the “short description” field on the products that are on your homepage or in the loop, here’s the PHP code to add to your functions.php.
Continue reading WooCommerce: Show Product Description @ Shop Page
If you’re not happy with the default number of products per page (16), or if your theme overrides the default WooCommerce setting for “per_page” products and you need to change it, here’s the fix for you.
Please note that you may also need to set the number of WooCommerce product grid columns, so that you can make sure the total number of products per page is a multiple of that and you don’t leave the shop page with empty grid items.
Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Change Number of Products Per Page
If you use a full page width on your product page you might want to change the number of upsells to 3 (or multiple). Also, a client of mine needed the upsells to be above the tabs, so there you go. Continue reading WooCommerce: Change # of Upsells and Move Them Above Tabs
You might want to disable PayPal for non-local customers or enable a specific gateway for only one country… Either way, this is a very common requirement for all of those who trade internationally.
Here’s a simple snippet you can further customize to achieve your objective. Simply pick the payment gateway “slug” you want to disable/enable (“paypal”, “authorize”, “stripe”, etc.) and the country code (US, ES, IE, etc.) and then apply your conditional rules in the plugin below.
Continue reading WooCommerce: Disable Payment Gateway by Country
There are times you don’t want to translate the whole installation of WooCommerce just for renaming one short string. There are times you need to rename a label or a little thing and don’t feel like installing a bloated translation plugin.
It doesn’t matter whether you want to rename a string in the original language (English, usually), or change the default translated string in a different language. Either way, and thankfully, there’s a little PHP snippet that will work for you instantly. Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: How to Translate / Rename Any String