Category: WooCommerce Tips

Here’s a collection of tips, snippets and articles to answer your biggest WooCommerce customization questions. You can use the search button above to refine your search, or alternatively click on one of these popular WooCommerce customization tags: Checkout page, Single product page, Cart page

You might also want to visualize the WooCommerce “hooks” in case you’re a little more familiar with coding – here’s the link to the popular “Visual Hook Guide Series“, where you can find all the WooCommerce PHP actions in a user-friendly way :)

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WooCommerce Visual Hook Guide: Cart 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!

WooCommerce: Show Message Upon Country Selection @ Checkout

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!

WooCommerce: Show Category For Each Product @ Shop Page

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!

WooCommerce: Change Number of Related Products

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

WooCommerce: Show Product Custom Field in the Category Pages

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

WooCommerce: Add Checkout Fee for a Payment Gateway (e.g. PayPal)

Here’s a simple PHP snippet to add a fee to the checkout for every payment or for a specific payment gateway.

Please do remember that for certain payment gateways such as PayPal, adding checkout fees is currently against their Terms of Service so make sure to check this first.

As usual, this needs to be copied and pasted in your child theme’s functions.php file. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Limit State Dropdowns to One State Only

This is a workaround to Limit Shipping and Billing to One State Only. In two of my previous posts (Limit Shipping to One State Only and Limit Billing to One State Only) we’ve seen similar functionalities. In this case, let’s imagine we want to avoid that the user selects unwanted states. Continue reading WooCommerce: Limit State Dropdowns to One State Only

WooCommerce: Disable Shipping Rate if Variation ID @ Cart

A client needed to disable all shipping methods but Local Pickup for a certain variation ID. This may come useful if you’re looping through the variations on the cart/checkout page (check if variation ID is in the cart for example), so here you go! Continue reading WooCommerce: Disable Shipping Rate if Variation ID @ Cart

WooCommerce: Hide “Order Notes” @ Checkout

Here’s a simple PHP snippet to remove the annoying “Order Notes” / “Additional Information” on the checkout page. This section can usually be found below the shipping form (or the billing form if you have no shipping). Thankfully, you just need 1 line of custom PHP!

WooCommerce: Remove or Rename SALE! Badge

Here’s yet another easy WooCommerce PHP snippet if you wish to completely remove / hide or translate / rename the SALE! badge on the homepage, shop page, category pages and single product pages.

Once again, with a few lines of code (and specifically, the “woocommerce_sale_flash” filter) you can achieve anything you want. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Show “Sold Out” @ Shop Page

Here’s another simple snippet that can easily help user experience and make sure a “sold out” badge shows on each out of stock product in the category & shop pages.

Not all themes allow this so you can use the snippet below to make it happen!

WooCommerce: Sell to One State Only

Very similar to the “Limit shipping to one State only“, this time we want to limit the Billing to only one state. An Australian client asked me to limit their sales to the South Australia state, but the same can be applied to US, UK and all the other countries that have states.

WooCommerce: Sort Shipping Costs from Low to High

A client had several shipping rates on the cart page automatically generated by FedEx, USPS, UPS and similar plugins via their API. Problem was, they wanted to sort them by price as opposed to grouping them by provider.

Thankfully, with a simple “uasort” PHP function, it’s possible to take the shipping rates array and sort it by amount before returning it back to the screen. If you don’t know PHP, simply copy/paste!

WooCommerce: Check if Product ID is in the Order

Once a customer places an order, you might want to know if such order contains a given product ID. you can use this for tracking purposes, redirect to a custom thank you page or run your custom functions.

Either way, checking this is quite simple thanks to the “woocommerce_thankyou” hook which runs on the order received page. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Hide Products @ Shop Page

A client wanted to show only featured products on the shop page. While adding featured products is very easy (just use the WooCommerce shortcode in the page content), it seems very difficult to remove the “default” product loop. Here’s what I did.

WooCommerce: Remove or Move User Login / Registration at Checkout

Whether you want to disable login / registration on the WooCommerce Checkout page or move the login form from the top to the bottom of it, this is a simple thing to do. You can do it via a PHP snippet or WooCommerce settings. Continue reading WooCommerce: Remove or Move User Login / Registration at Checkout

WooCommerce: Change “Return to Shop” URL

This simple snippet will make sure you can send users back to a custom page as opposed to the shop page when the Cart is empty. In this particular project, client had no shop page so we wanted to send users back to the homepage instead.

As usual, it’s a couple of lines of PHP, without the need to override templates or even worse to edit core WooCommerce. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Set Default Billing State / Country @ Checkout

This is a simple PGP snippet that I successfully used on a bunch of websites in order to set the default Billing country or state. This is a great way to save the user some time during checkout (and therefore increase your conversion rate) in case you almost exclusively sell to customers located in a given country or state. Nothing else to say, just… enjoy! Continue reading WooCommerce: Set Default Billing State / Country @ Checkout

WooCommerce: Translate “You may also like…” Text

Apparently, since WooCommerce 4.1, there is now an easy way to edit the “You may also like…” WooCommerce string thanks to a brand new “PHP filter”. Kudos to Damien Carbery for reporting this new method.

So, as usual, simply copy/paste the snippet below in your child theme’s functions.php and it will do what it says on the tin. Enjoy!