By default, WooCommerce does not display the product thumbnail inside the order emails.
With this little trick, however, you can revert this default behavior and indeed show images beside their product name inside the email order item table. Enjoy!
With the snippet below, it is possible to display product thumbnails inside WooCommerce order emails. Nice, isn’t it?
PHP Snippet: Show Product Images @ WooCommerce Emails
Please let me know in the comments if everything went as expected. I would be happy to revise the snippet if you report otherwise (please provide screenshots). I have tested this code with Storefront theme, the WooCommerce version listed above and a WordPress-friendly hosting.
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Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as an independent WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. His goal is to help entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares. Rodolfo loves travelling, chasing tennis & soccer balls and, of course, wood fired oven pizza.
Your “Show Product Image” snippet is a good improvement on the standard Woo emails and adds to the professional look of the Woo emails. Nice!
Can I please suggest an improvement?
The image thumbnail added to the email is 1 cm square and there is 0 padding between the image thumbnail and the text description of the item purchased.
My actual Thumbnail size is 150 x 215 as set in Admin Dashboard >> Settings >> Media.
I don’t know if this is happening to just me or not. Do you know if the email thumbnail size and padding can be improved?
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Of course this website itself uses the WooCommerce plugin, the Storefront theme and runs on a WooCommerce-friendly hosting.
How could I replace the default Woocommerce placeholder when a variation does not have an image, and replace it by its Variable product image?
Inside the emails?
BIG thank you, Rodolfo!
Your “Show Product Image” snippet is a good improvement on the standard Woo emails and adds to the professional look of the Woo emails. Nice!
Can I please suggest an improvement?
The image thumbnail added to the email is 1 cm square and there is 0 padding between the image thumbnail and the text description of the item purchased.
My actual Thumbnail size is 150 x 215 as set in Admin Dashboard >> Settings >> Media.
I don’t know if this is happening to just me or not. Do you know if the email thumbnail size and padding can be improved?
Thank You, and Happy New Year
Julie
Thank you Julie! You can also set the ‘image_size’ parameter, and give it an array of dimensions e.g.:
As for the padding, please refer to https://www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-add-css-woocommerce-emails/
Hey Rodolfo,
Sorry, I forgot to include a screenshot in my previous comment.
Please see for details of where I need to add CSS: https://prnt.sc/R3g5vskPWKN9
Thank You,
Julie
Thank you! Yes, https://www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-add-css-woocommerce-emails/ should help you