When making modifications to a WooCommerce store it’s common to want to access a product’s price, either to perform a calculation or to display the details on screen. This may seem like a simple task, but WooCommerce has a lot of price functions and it can be difficult to know which one to use. We … Read more
The Problem – How to Perform a WooCommerce Redirect after Checkout When a user completes a purchase in WooCommerce they will be redirected by default to a “thank you” page that shows their order details. But you may want to redirect the user to a different page based on criteria such as The product or … Read more
The Problem In WooCommerce, product details are stored in product objects that hold product data. If you want to get the name of a WooCommerce product then you will first need to create a product object then call the get_name() function on that object to retrieve the product name. You will typically be in one … Read more
Why Would I Need to Get Custom Product Attributes? In WooCommerce it is possible to assign attributes to products, the attributes are typically used to filter products or to create variations when we are adding variable products. When displaying product details you may want to display the values for a certain attribute that is linked … Read more
The WooCommerce thank you page displays default instructions for a payment type, here’s an image showing the text that is displayed when an order has been paid using the “Cash on delivery” payment method. If you’re looking to change or remove this text it can be done without changing any code, if you want to … Read more
If you have access to an order object in WooCommerce then it is possible to call the get_payment_method()function to see what payment method was used for the order. You could use use the call in an if statement to run some logic if a particular payment method was used. Here’s some code to illustrate what … Read more
Have you ever wanted to add a custom message or some bespoke functionality to the “thank you” WooCommerce page that appears after a customer has paid for and checked out their order? If you have then the woocommerce_thankyou action is probably exactly what you are looking for. In this blog post we’ll take a look … Read more
In the previous two articles we looked at using the $wp_filter and $wp_actions to list the filters and actions that were fired on a page. Having looked at how this can be done in code I wanted to finish off the series by taking look at a plugin that does the same job. The Query … Read more
The global objects $wp_filter and $wp_actions hold details about the hooks that are registered and fire during the WordPress page load process. If you’ve ever looked at any code that use the two objects, it can be difficult to work out how the objects differ and what data each of the objects hold. In this … Read more
WooCommerce uses a number of global variables, if you’ve spent any time looking at code snippets then you’ll often see code like this global $product; Which is used to get a reference to the current product that is being displayed, typically on the shop screen or the single product page. Recently whilst looking through the … Read more