Ian What Does the WooCommerce wc_get_template Function Do? The wc_get_template function can be used to display the contents of template files. The function allows you to pass values into the templates which can then be displayed as part of the template. The function also allows templates to be over ridden either in themes or plugins. A … Read more
Some times when looking at WordPress or WooCommerce code you might see something like this <?php $value = “Hi there!”; ?> <div> <strong><?=$value?></strong> </div> The very simple example above would render the following to the screen So what is the <?=$value?> code doing? From the example above you might have worked out that <?=$value?> is shorthand for writing … Read more
Once the WooCommerce plugin has been installed you can access details of all the WooCommerce products in your store via the admin area of your WordPress site, but as a developer you may wish to access product data directly in the database, either for reporting purposes or to access a specific piece of data. It … Read more
I was asked a question the other day about retrieving a user’s details from an order programmatically, since WooCommerce 3.0 it is reasonably easy to extract a user’s details but there are a number of methods that can be used and we also need to consider how WooCommerce stores address data for the “My Account” … Read more
WordPress has it’s own rewrite API which it uses to prettify URLs, to give a specific WooCommerce example the shop URL http://wooexp.local/shop/ can be rewritten as http://wooexp.local/index.php?post_type=product If you type the URL above into a browser (changing the host from the I’m using on a Local by Flywheel test site to your site) then you … Read more
The Problem Adding a custom field to a product in WooCoomerce is a very popular request, and whilst it might seem a little daunting to add a field and then get the data entered into the field to display throughout the cart, order, and back-end order process we can actually accomplish the task using only … Read more
The Problem Although WooCommerce provides an admin interface to add coupons, sometimes we might want to create a coupon on the fly in code rather than adding one via the admin interface. In this article we’ll look at how to create WooCommerce coupon programmatically, this will include a reasonably in-depth look at the various options … Read more
Problem Online stores will typically need to link to the categories of products sold in the store, but they may not want to hard code the links into the sites HTML as changes to the URL structure could then break links within the site. One way around this problem is to use PHP code to … Read more
The Problem When adding functionality to a WooCommerce store we sometimes want to add features that should only be present on category or tag pages. In this article, we’ll take a look at how we can detect category and tag pages in our WooCommerce code. The Solution This code will detect if the user is … Read more
On the WooCommerce single product page there are a number of tabs that are shown by default on each product page. They will typically look similar to the image below What if we wanted to change the text one of the tabs? Well, we could do it using the snippet below /* * @snippet Rename … Read more