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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Today we take a look at the WooCommerce Checkout Page and specifically at how to disable a payment gateway (for example PayPal) when a specific shipping method is selected (e.g. “local_pickup”).
Specifically, you will learn how to “get” the selected shipping method on the go (thanks to “sessions”), and also how to “unset” a payment gateway. Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Disable Payment Gateway For Specific Shipping Method
Today we take a look at the WooCommerce Single Product Page and specifically at how to move the image gallery from under the main image to somewhere else, for example in the short description. Enjoy! Continue reading WooCommerce: Move Product Gallery Thumbnails
The WooCommerce “products” shortcode displays all products in your shop. There is even an attribute called “category” where you can specify comma-separated list of category slugs in order to further filter the output.
What you can’t do is define a list of unwanted categories (think of “uncategorized” for example) i.e. a list of categories you want to exclude from the products shortcode output.
So, here’s the fix, enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Exclude Category from
Easily add a second description box to the Product Category pages, define its content and place it above or below the product grid. Great for SEO, helpful for humans.
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Easily hide or show payment methods based on the cart total e.g. disable PayPal above $100, or enable Stripe only when total is above $999. Add as many rows as you wish, and sort them to create complex rules.
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Instead of manually clicking on the “Update Cart” button to update the cart totals after users change the quantity of any cart item, let WooCommerce do that automatically.
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Automatically display WooCommerce prices on the frontend including and excluding tax, based on your WooCommerce tax settings and the current user billing address. No settings required – just install the plugin and watch the magic happen.
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Easily attach custom files (pdf, doc, xls, zip, jpg, png, etc.) to any WooCommerce email.
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Easily hide or show payment methods based on user role e.g. disable PayPal if logged in user has “customer” role, or enable Stripe only when logged in user has “subscriber” role. Add as many rules as you wish.
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Redirect successful customers orders to an existing WordPress page as opposed to the default WooCommerce Thank You page. In this way, you can design the custom page with your favorite editor, gain more control on the message you wish to convey, and have the chance to convert additional sales.
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Easily hide or show payment methods based on the chosen billing or shipping country at checkout e.g. disable PayPal when the billing country is USA, or enable Stripe only when the shipping country is India. Add as many rules as you wish.
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Easily add a prefix and/or a suffix to all WooCommerce product prices.
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Show the stock availability under each product in the shop, category and archive pages. This follows the same settings as the stock display of the single product page (WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Inventory > Stock display format).
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Show product quantity inputs beside each product in the Checkout Page order review table, so that customers can adjust their cart before completing the order. Also useful when the shop has no Cart page.
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Add extra To:, CC:, and BCC: email recipients to any active WooCommerce email.
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Easily hide product prices and add to cart buttons when users are logged out (catalog mode). Optionally display a custom login message so that registered customers can view prices and add to cart.
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Replace the single product page variable product price with the one of the current variation, as opposed to showing two prices.
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Limit your WooCommerce Cart to just one product. When a product is added to cart, you can choose to either replace the current cart with the new product, or prevent it from being added unless the cart is manually emptied first.
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Easily hide the products sorting dropdown on shop and product archive pages. No settings required.
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Easily hide or show payment methods based on the chosen shipping method at checkout e.g. disable PayPal for Local Pickup, or enable Stripe only when Free Shipping is selected. Add as many rows as you wish, and sort them to create complex rules.
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Easily toggle payment methods based on product categories in the cart e.g. disable PayPal if category “Expensive tables” is in the cart, or enable Stripe only when category “Membership” is in the cart. Optionally include all subcategories, add as many rows as you wish, and sort them to create complex conditional rules.
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Here’s a snippet regarding the checkout page. If you’ve been affected by GDPR, you will know you now need users to give you Privacy Policy consent. Or, you might need customer to acknowledge special shipping requirements for example.
So, how do we display an additional tick box on the Checkout page (together with the existing T&C checkbox)?
Continue reading WooCommerce: Add Privacy Policy Checkbox @ Checkout
In this tutorial, my goal is to show the “stock availability” under each product in the shop, category and archive pages.
This follows exactly the same settings as the stock display of the single product page. Go to /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wc-settings&tab=products§ion=inventory to manage “Stock display format”. Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Display Stock Availability @ Shop Page
In this blog I’ve put together a series of WooCommerce links, tutorials, videos, blogs and resources so that you can find what you’re looking for. Enjoy! Continue reading WooCommerce Resource Library
We’ve already seen how to disable fields on the checkout page by using a simple snippet.
Given my ultimate goal of trying to do as much as possible without installing heavy-weight plugins, today we’ll take a look at how to move fields around inside the billing & shipping sections.
Continue reading WooCommerce: Move / Reorder Checkout Fields (Email, Country, etc.)
Here’s a visual HTML hook guide for the WooCommerce Checkout Page.
This visual guide belongs to my “Visual Hook Guide Series“, that I’ve put together so that you can find WooCommerce hooks quickly and easily by seeing their actual locations – and you can also easily copy & paste. Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce Visual Hook Guide: Checkout Page
A client wanted to completely remove the area on the Cart page where “You may be interested in…” cross-sell products show.
This is helpful if business needs change at some time and you don’t want to manually remove cross-sells from each single product in your store by hand. Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Remove Cross-Sells @ Cart Page
Unless your theme is overriding the WooCommerce sidebar, removing this from the single product page is quite easy! Continue reading WooCommerce: Remove Sidebar @ Single Product Page
This challenging task (yet very simple at the end…!) was requested by one of my WooCommerce Support clients. As they trade in USA only, they wanted to force “numbers only” in the ZIP input field, so that letters would not be allowed. Strange WooCommerce doesn’t do this out of the box! Continue reading WooCommerce: Change Input Type @ Checkout Fields
Quite an interesting functionality! A WooCommerce client wanted their Cart pre-filled with one product as soon as their customers accessed the website. I don’t remember the exact reason, but this could be useful when you want to give them a free product by default, or you want to send your visitors straight to checkout with a product already in the cart without letting them add anything first.
Adding an item to cart programmatically is the same as “automatically”. Basically, all users will have a default, non-empty Cart filled with an item of your choice. So, let’s see how this snippet works!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Add Product to Cart On Visit Programmatically
A WooCommerce Customization client wanted to add some text above the “Login” and “Register” boxes on the My Account page. Understandably, users may need a bit of an explanation before they take action. Here’s how you do it!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Add Content @ My Account Register / Login Page
I’ve created a visual HTML hook guide for the WooCommerce Archive Page (which is the same page for the Shop, Category, Tag pages). This visual guide belongs to my “Visual Hook Guide Series“, that I’ve put together so that you can find WooCommerce hooks quickly and easily by seeing their actual locations (and you can also copy/paste). If you like this guide and it is helpful to you, let me know in the comments!
Thanks to this WooCommerce Archive Visual Hooks Guide, you can now go to your template’s functions.php file and use “add_action(‘place-hook-here’,’your-PHP-function-here’);” – you can then place your custom functions exactly where you like them to be. Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce Visual Hook Guide: Archive / Shop / Cat Pages
Here’s a visual hook guide for the WooCommerce Single Product Page. This is part of my “Visual Hook Guide Series“, through which you can find WooCommerce hooks quickly and easily by seeing their actual locations (and you can copy/paste). If you like this guide and it’s helpful to you, let me know in the comments!
Now that you know the product page hooks, you can override the WooCommerce Single Product Page via your child theme’s functions. You can remove default elements (for example, the featured image, the add to cart form, related products…), you can add your custom elements by picking the correct positioned “hook” and triggering your function, and you can even “move” existing elements. Need a video tutorial? Watch it now →
Continue reading WooCommerce Visual Hook Guide: Single Product Page
I’ve put together a visual (yet, you can copy/paste!) hook guide for the WooCommerce Cart Page. If you like this and it is helpful to you, let me know in the comments and I’ll create another one for the checkout, single product page and my account page.
You can find WooCommerce Cart hooks quickly and easily by seeing their actual locations. Great thing is – all you need to do in your functions.php is “add_action(‘place-hook-here’,’your-PHP-function-here’);” and you can place your custom functions anywhere on the WooCommerce Cart Page. Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce Visual Hook Guide: Cart Page
If you have country-specific shipping conditions, or you want to show a message conditionally after country selection on the checkout page, here’s a simple WooCommerce PHP snippet you can freely use. This can be slightly customized to target state selection instead.
I’ve also edited the initial code to make this work on load as well, so that the message would conditionally show even then. Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Show Message Upon Country Selection @ Checkout
A client of mine has a category called “Brand”. Each product is assigned to a specific Brand subcategory e.g. Nike, Adidas, etc. The goal of this task was to show the “Brand” subcategories in the shop/category/loop pages as a way to help the user identify the brand name.
The same can be applied to showing ALL categories, so the user knows exactly to what section of the shop the product belong to. Great, let’s see how it’s done!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Show Category For Each Product @ Shop Page
Here’s a simple snippet to change the display of Related Products on the single product page. Lately, I even added a fix for the Storefront theme, which already overrides the WooCommerce filter and needs a different call. Continue reading WooCommerce: Change Number of Related Products
A client asked me to show a given custom field in the loop (i.e. Shop page, Category pages, Tag pages = anywhere woocommerce products are returned). Interestingly enough, she didn’t want to show the product short description (see “show product short description on the homepage only” snippet) but a custom field, so here’s how you do it! Continue reading WooCommerce: Show Product Custom Field in the Category Pages