A freelance client sells two distinct products on the same website: a membership and an online course. Two different audiences, different formats and… different Terms & Conditions.
The goal was therefore to display the “Terms & Conditions” checkbox on the Checkout page based on the product in the cart. Once again, we’re going to use Conditional Logic. With that, the snippet is pretty easy to code!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Per-Product Terms & Conditions @ Checkout
Selling on the web is a highly competitive game. There is no shortage of both customers and competitors. Big companies crush little companies every day. But that doesn’t mean smaller websites doesn’t have any chance.
Smaller companies can beat larger companies if they focus on the right things. For that, you always need to look for opportunities and act smart when it comes to promoting your brand and products.
Leveraging search engines is one of the cheapest ways to bring customers to your website. For that, you need to make sure you are fulfilling the search query. Since Google is always looking for the best fit & best experience for users based on their query.
Category pages or product listing pages are key hub pages in any E-commerce store. Products tend to come and go but categories stay. So it’s better to build up your category pages.
For example, if you are selling necklaces, you have more than one necklace for sure. So rather than 5 necklace pages competing for the same Necklace terms, optimize the category page for necklaces while optimizing the products for specific necklace style (e.g. Crystal Necklaces). Your primary focus should be ranking your category pages for specific key terms.
Most online stores neglect their category pages and organize them in a way that it does more harm than good. If optimized correctly they can bring in good traffic for top level keywords and reap the rewards for months.
Continue reading WooCommerce: How Top Brands Design Product Category Pages
Recently I was on a coaching call with a client and the “Free Sample” challenge came up. Client has 400+ products on the website and had no intention of adding a free variation to each product manually.
So, I promised to myself I was going to study a different approach. And today you get it for free – nice! Needless to say, a comment and a social media share are much appreciated. Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Order a “Free Sample” @ Single Product Page
A freelance client hired me a while ago to display a “Continue Shopping” button on the Single Product Page, next to the Add to Cart. A simple way to send their users back to where they were coming from without clicking the “previous” button on the browser 🙂
Here’s how it’s done, featuring an awesome WordPress function called “wp_get_referer()”! Continue reading WooCommerce: “Continue Shopping” Button @ Single Product Page
I’ve been wanting to publish this guide for a long while. As a WooCommerce development freelancer, every day I repeat many operations that make me waste time… and one of them is indeed “How to get ____ if I have the $product variable/object?“.
For example, “How can I get the product SKU“? Or “How can I get the product short description“? Or maybe the product stock level, shipping class, tax class, price, regular price, sale price, and so on… hopefully this article will save you time.
Of course, not always you have access to the $product global – but you may know the $product_id. In this case, you can use the wc_get_product WooCommerce function to calculate the $product object – you find this case scenario below.
Other examples might be the order or the cart page. Once again, in here you don’t really have a $product available, so you have to loop through the order/cart items and “get” it. After that, you can then calculate and get any piece of information you require out of $product. Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Get Product Info (ID, SKU, $) From $product Object
Let’s talk about checkout UX: if a user is willing to pick up the item in store, why should there be a shipping form on the checkout?
Well, let’s see how we can hide this dynamically with a bit of PHP and JS!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Hide Shipping If Local Pickup Is Selected
WooCommerce.com is dropping its 50% extension renewals, and moving to a 100% renewal business model.
I found this out at WCEU 2017 and then via WP Tavern. Unfortunately, this announcement is not on WooCommerce blog, on its social media channels or even Automattic.
And yes, this is retroactive – we are now all paying 100% renewals. So, let’s see what I think about this “still not official” news. Continue reading WooCommerce: My Take on WooCommerce.com Switching to 100% Renewals
Interesting, isn’t it? This has been on my to-write list for ages, so today I want to show you my first attempt at turning the Shop page into a list/table of products as opposed to the default grid.
This is especially suitable to B2B WooCommerce shops, or for those websites where customers don’t really need to see huge product images and are used to order “from a product form”.
Let’s see how I did this – I will try to comment my PHP as much as possible so you can understand my strategy. Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Product List View @ Shop
You might want to show a “POA” price and/or a “Call for Price” button when you have a product with an empty price.
Many businesses require this, mostly real estate and wholesalers. So let’s see how it’s done 🙂
Continue reading WooCommerce: POA / Call for Price @ Single Product
Checkout page plays a huge role in your eCommerce success. It is one of the most important part of your conversion funnel. This is the page that brings revenue.
It doesn’t matter how many people are visiting your website if no one makes any purchase. Complicated checkout process is one of the main reason of high shopping cart abandonment.
You should always look for ways to make your checkout process as simple as possible. If you are using WooCommerce as your eCommerce solution you can easily change the checkout page design, remove or change the existing checkout fields order.
Continue reading WooCommerce Checkout Fields Customization Guide
Case scenario: if you add a product ID to cart with a specific, you want another product automatically added to cart (Buy One Get One, or “BOGO”).
This second product should have price = 0 if you wish to completely give it away, or maybe a set sale price. It should also be set to “hidden” because maybe you want to hide this free product from the shop and only gift it when the first one is added to Cart.
Also, if you remove product 1, the gifted product should go away from the Cart too. So here follows the PHP snippet of course!
Continue reading WooCommerce: “Buy One Get One” (BOGO)
A client asked to show a “Product Inquiry” button on the Single Product Page which would display, upon click, a Contact Form with an automatically populated subject (Contact Form 7 plugin must be installed of course). Here’s how I did it!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Product Enquiry Form @ Single Product Page (CF7)
With WooCommerce you get 3 default shipping methods: Flat Rate, Free Shipping, Local Pickup. For each one you can define a cost, however there is no way to set up some “weight” restrictions.
So, what if you want to display a rate for orders below 10 kg, and another shipping rate for orders above that weight?
Well, you can use simple PHP to accomplish lots of “advanced” shipping rules, such as shipping by weight.
As long as all your products have their weight information filled in, you can create some simple rules to conditionally hide/show certain shipping methods based on cart weight. Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Weight-Based Shipping Methods
WooCommerce is a free software that allows WordPress users to sell products or services directly from their own website.
It is one of the best WordPress ecommerce solutions for building and growing an online business.
It became hugely popular due to its flexibility and simplicity, as well as the variety of free and premium add-ons and a massive developer community. It is a dominating force in the global ecommerce world and accounts for over 20% of the total market share as of 2023.
In this post, we’ll take a look at the WooCommerce history, as well as its pros and cons as an ecommerce software.
Continue reading WooCommerce: What is it? Is it Free?
The new shipping zone management that was introduced with Woo 2.6 gives us the chance to add flat rate, free shipping and local pick-up methods by default.
But what if a client requires 3 different rates depending on the order amount (tiered shipping)? For example: “For orders up to $100, shipping = $5; for orders up to $250, shipping = $2; for orders above $500, shipping = free”.
Is this possible without using a plugin? Well, the answer, as usual, is absolutely yes! Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Shipping Rates by Order Amount
I invoice clients via WooCommerce, and then send them the “Invoice Email”, which takes them to the “Order Pay” page. Of course, I want to give them the option to pay via “Bank Transfer” (bacs), but I don’t want this to be visible on the default checkout page.
We’ve seen in the past how to disable payment gateways given certain conditions… but how do we “enable” one? Here’s a snippet for that – enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Enable Payment Gateway Only for “Order Pay Checkout”
WooCommerce is one of the most popular WordPress plugin for adding eCommerce or cart functionality to a WordPress website. According to recent research by aheadWorks, WooCommerce now accounts for 26.5% of the total eCommerce market share. And recent acquisition by Automattic indicates that it has a great future ahead.
WooCommerce is well known for its huge flexibility and vast customization options. There are hundreds of WooCommerce plugins or Extensions available for extending the functionality. If you want some recommendations in this direction, check out some of the best free WooCommerce plugins (sorted by number of active install).
Continue reading WooCommerce: 85 Free Plugins for Every Challenge
Sometimes, just like physical stores, your WooCommerce website may need a few days off!
Nothing special there, as long as online customers are aware of the fact you will be reopening soon.
In WooCommerce words, this means hiding the add to cart buttons (one line of code) and also show a little notice on every WooCommerce page (one simple setting).
Enjoy!
Continue reading WooCommerce: Enable Holiday / Pause / Vacation Mode
The WooCommerce and WordPress conditional tags (“WooCommerce and WordPress Conditional Logic”) can be used in your functions.php to display content based on certain conditions. For example, you could display different content for different categories within a single PHP function.
Continue reading WooCommerce Conditional Logic – Tags, Examples & PHP
We’ve all been there… WooPanic! What do I need to do? What on earth is happening? Is my website going to break?
First of all, relax 🙂 Not much to worry about.
In this post, we’ll see why that notice appears, what problems it could cause and what you can do to fix it. Continue reading WooCommerce: Fixing “Outdated Copies of WooCommerce Templates”