Gerhard Potgieter

Senior Software Engineer @ Automattic specializing in eCommerce

Category: WooCommerce

WooCommerce Remove Product Description From Single Product Page — January 24, 2014

WooCommerce Remove Product Description From Single Product Page

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WooCommerce Remove Product Descriptions

There are some cases where you would like to have you WooCommerce products not display a description, this tutorial will help you achieve just that.

By default WooCommerce has two description fields, a short description and a long description. The short description is usually an excerpt take from the long description unless you enter your own short description on the product page.

The short description is displayed right next to the image on the product page underneath the title, where as the long description is displayed in a tab at the bottom of the product page.

If you would like to either remove the WooCommerce short description or the long description tab, or both, you can do so by adding the following code to your theme’s functions.php file.


<?php
// remove product description from single product pages
remove_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', 'woocommerce_template_single_excerpt', 20 );
add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_tabs', 'wc_remove_description_tab', 11, 1 );
function wc_remove_description_tab( $tabs ) {
if ( isset( $tabs['description'] ) ) {
unset( $tabs['description'] );
}
}
?>

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WooCommerce Allow Checkout in Multiples Only — December 10, 2013

WooCommerce Allow Checkout in Multiples Only

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WooCommerce Limit Checkout To Multiples Of a Product

Say you operate a WooCommerce store where you sell products that are shipped in boxes but want customers to make up their own boxes with different products, by default WooCommerce will only allow you to sell products in the the quantities you set the product up with and the customer will be able to check out with any amount of items in the cart.

For instance if you operate a online wine store with WooCommerce and would like to sell your wine by the bottle but only want customers to checkout if they have quantities selected that would make up a whole box, the following tutorial is for you.

With the code below you can setup your products that each product is a single bottle of wine and then force the customer to add multiples of any 6 products to the cart before they would be able to checkout. If the customer for example adds only 5 bottles to the cart and then tries to checkout they will be presented with a message to order in multiples of 6.

You can even take it a step further and only allow the rule to apply to products with a certain shipping class, this will allow you to sell single bottles as well as cases without having the multiples rule apply to the case products.

To force the customer to add multiples of a certain quantity to the cart before being able to checkout add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file.


<?php
// check that cart items quantities totals are in multiples of 6
add_action( 'woocommerce_check_cart_items', 'woocommerce_check_cart_quantities' );
function woocommerce_check_cart_quantities() {
$multiples = 6;
$total_products = 0;
foreach ( WC()->cart->get_cart() as $cart_item_key => $values ) {
$total_products += $values['quantity'];
}
if ( ( $total_products % $multiples ) > 0 )
wc_add_notice( sprintf( __('You need to buy in quantities of %s products', 'woocommerce'), $multiples ), 'error' );
}
// Limit cart items with a certain shipping class to be purchased in multiple only
add_action( 'woocommerce_check_cart_items', 'woocommerce_check_cart_quantities_for_class' );
function woocommerce_check_cart_quantities_for_class() {
$multiples = 6;
$class = 'bottle';
$total_products = 0;
foreach ( WC()->cart->get_cart() as $cart_item_key => $values ) {
$product = get_product( $values['product_id'] );
if ( $product->get_shipping_class() == $class ) {
$total_products += $values['quantity'];
}
}
if ( ( $total_products % $multiples ) > 0 )
wc_add_notice( sprintf( __('You need to purchase bottles in quantities of %s', 'woocommerce'), $multiples ), 'error' );
}
?>

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WooCommerce Add Shipping Method to Emails — December 5, 2013

WooCommerce Add Shipping Method to Emails

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Following up on the post about adding the Payment Type to your WooCommerce emails, a reader asked how they would be able to also add the Shipping Method to the WooCommerce emails.

Again WooCommerce does add a lot of information to the emails that goes out to the customers and admin but there are some things that are not part of the emails and another one of those things are the Shipping Method.

The shipping method could useful to display in emails to let shop admin knows how to ship the order if these emails are being used as packaging slips, or to let the customer know what type of shipping they selected at checkout.

To add the shipping method to all WooCommerce emails or just add it to the admin emails add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file.


<?php
// Place the following code in your theme's functions.php file to add the shipping method to all emails
add_action( 'woocommerce_email_after_order_table', 'wc_add_shipping_method_to_emails', 15, 2 );
function wc_add_shipping_method_to_emails( $order, $is_admin_email ) {
echo '<p><strong>Shipping Method:</strong> ' . $order->get_shipping_method() . '</p>';
}
// Place the following code in your theme's functions.php file to add the shipping methid to admin emails only
add_action( 'woocommerce_email_after_order_table', 'wc_add_shipping_method_to_admin_emails', 15, 2 );
function wc_add_shipping_method_to_admin_emails( $order, $is_admin_email ) {
if ( $is_admin_email ) {
echo '<p><strong>Shipping Method:</strong> ' . $order->get_shipping_method() . '</p>';
}
}
?>

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WooCommerce Add Payment Type to Emails — November 14, 2013

WooCommerce Add Payment Type to Emails

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WooCommerce send customers and store admins emails when new orders are placed, these emails contains all sorts of info relating to the order, however it is missing a couple of things that can be useful to customers or store admins.

One of the fields that is not present in the WooCommerce order emails are the payment type, some WooCommerce store admins would perhaps want to know this data in emails for decisions on whether to ship items immediately or to hold off for a while for money to clear.

To add the payment type to all WooCommerce emails or just admin email add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file, this is upgrade safe and the changes will stay in place after WooCommerce updates.


<?php
// Place the following code in your theme's functions.php file to add the payment type to all emails
add_action( 'woocommerce_email_after_order_table', 'wc_add_payment_type_to_emails', 15, 2 );
function wc_add_payment_type_to_emails( $order, $is_admin_email ) {
echo '<p><strong>Payment Type:</strong> ' . $order->payment_method_title . '</p>';
}
// Place the following code in your theme's functions.php file to add the payment type to admin emails only
add_action( 'woocommerce_email_after_order_table', 'wc_add_payment_type_to_admin_emails', 15, 2 );
function wc_add_payment_type_to_admin_emails( $order, $is_admin_email ) {
if ( $is_admin_email ) {
echo '<p><strong>Payment Type:</strong> ' . $order->payment_method_title . '</p>';
}
}
?>

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WooCommerce Number Of Products Sold — October 14, 2013

WooCommerce Number Of Products Sold

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A question that has been popping up quite a lot lately in the WooCommerce support forums is how do I display the total amount of units sold for a product on the product page. In this WooCommerce tutorial I will be showing you how to display this on the product page.

Luckily WooCommerce already takes care of the majority of work for us to do this as it automatically keeps track of the number of units sold for each product for reporting purpose, all we have to do it do retrieve the value and display it on the product page.

To display the number of units sold for a product add the following snippet of code to your theme’s functions.php file


<?php
add_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', 'wc_product_sold_count', 11 );
function wc_product_sold_count() {
global $product;
$units_sold = get_post_meta( $product->id, 'total_sales', true );
echo '<p>' . sprintf( __( 'Units Sold: %s', 'woocommerce' ), $units_sold ) . '</p>';
}
?>

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This will result in the Units Sold text to display underneath the product title and price

WooCommerce number of units sold

WooCommerce Custom Product Fields — September 17, 2013

WooCommerce Custom Product Fields

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In this WooCommerce tutorial I will be showing you how to add a custom field to a WooCommerce product.

I will go through adding a custom field on the general tab section of the WooCommerce edit product page underneath the price fields where you can enter a value in to be saved, go through saving and validating the data and then displaying the data that was saved on the product page on the front-end of your shop.

As an example I will be showing you how to add a Recommended Retail Price (RRP) to a WooCommerce product and display this on the front-end, so lets get starting.

First step would be to define the field on the edit product page, luckily WooCommerce makes this very easy due to the large array of hooks available for use as well as the built in functions to generate HTML input fields. Place the following code inside your theme’s functions.php file to define a new text field on the product edit page.


add_action( 'woocommerce_product_options_pricing', 'wc_rrp_product_field' );
function wc_rrp_product_field() {
woocommerce_wp_text_input( array( 'id' => 'rrp_price', 'class' => 'wc_input_price short', 'label' => __( 'RRP', 'woocommerce' ) . ' (' . get_woocommerce_currency_symbol() . ')' ) );
}

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You will now have a field on your product edit page called RRP, however if you enter something into the field and save the product, the data will not be save as we need to actually still save the data when the product gets updated, to save it and also check that a numeric value is entered add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file


add_action( 'save_post', 'wc_rrp_save_product' );
function wc_rrp_save_product( $product_id ) {
// If this is a auto save do nothing, we only save when update button is clicked
if ( defined( 'DOING_AUTOSAVE' ) && DOING_AUTOSAVE )
return;
if ( isset( $_POST['rrp_price'] ) ) {
if ( is_numeric( $_POST['rrp_price'] ) )
update_post_meta( $product_id, 'rrp_price', $_POST['rrp_price'] );
} else delete_post_meta( $product_id, 'rrp_price' );
}

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Now when you enter a value in the RRP field and update the product the field should be saved and loaded in the RRP field you defined when the page loads. The final step would be to actually display the value saved on the product page on the front-end for customers to view, to do this add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file


add_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', 'wc_rrp_show', 5 );
function wc_rrp_show() {
global $product;
// Do not show this on variable products
if ( $product->product_type <> 'variable' ) {
$rrp = get_post_meta( $product->id, 'rrp_price', true );
echo '<div class="woocommerce_msrp">';
_e( 'RRP: ', 'woocommerce' );
echo '<span class="woocommerce-rrp-price">' . woocommerce_price( $rrp ) . '</span>';
echo '</div>';
}
}
// Optional: To show on archive pages
add_action( 'woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item_title', 'wc_rrp_show' );

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Your end result will look like the image below when you add or edit a product

WooCommerce Custom Product Field Backend

And will look like this on the front-end when a customer views the product

WooCommerce Custom Product Field Front-End

Just a note that this tutorial does not cover adding custom fields to variable product, that process is covered in this tutorial by my fellow team member at WooThemes, Remi Corson.

WooCommerce Product Quantity Dropdown — September 9, 2013

WooCommerce Product Quantity Dropdown

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WooCommerce Quantity Dropdowns

WooCommerce by default adds a quantity input box to your product pages where customers can enter quantities, but a lot of times you want to have more control over the quantities and make it more idiot proof on your site for customers by allowing them to select the quantities instead of entering it themselves.

The following snippet of code I wrote will replace the default WooCommerce quantity input box and replace it with a dropdown select option of quantities. It is fully compatible with the Min/Max Quantities extension which allows you to display quantities in the dropdown based on the minimum, maximum and group values so the customer can only select values in which the product can be bought instead of having to use plus and minus buttons or entering a value manually.

To turn your WooCommerce quantity input boxes into dropdown select options simply copy the following code to your theme’s functions.php file


<?php
// Place the following code in your theme's functions.php file
// override the quantity input with a dropdown
function woocommerce_quantity_input() {
global $product;
$defaults = array(
'input_name' => 'quantity',
'input_value' => '1',
'max_value' => apply_filters( 'woocommerce_quantity_input_max', '', $product ),
'min_value' => apply_filters( 'woocommerce_quantity_input_min', '', $product ),
'step' => apply_filters( 'woocommerce_quantity_input_step', '1', $product ),
'style' => apply_filters( 'woocommerce_quantity_style', 'float:left; margin-right:10px;', $product )
);
if ( ! empty( $defaults['min_value'] ) )
$min = $defaults['min_value'];
else $min = 1;
if ( ! empty( $defaults['max_value'] ) )
$max = $defaults['max_value'];
else $max = 20;
if ( ! empty( $defaults['step'] ) )
$step = $defaults['step'];
else $step = 1;
$options = '';
for ( $count = $min; $count <= $max; $count = $count+$step ) {
$options .= '<option value="' . $count . '">' . $count . '</option>';
}
echo '<div class="quantity_select" style="' . $defaults['style'] . '"><select name="' . esc_attr( $defaults['input_name'] ) . '" title="' . _x( 'Qty', 'Product quantity input tooltip', 'woocommerce' ) . '" class="qty">' . $options . '</select></div>';
}
?>

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WooCommerce Product Image Slideshow Using WooSlider —

WooCommerce Product Image Slideshow Using WooSlider

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WooSlider Product Image Slideshow

At WooThemes we have this cool plugin called WooSlider which basically allows you to create awesome sliders just about anywhere on your site, it is a powerful WordPress slideshow plugin yet simple to use.

One of the questions that has been popping up a lot lately in support is, how can I turn my WooCommerce product images on the single product page into a slideshow instead of displaying a normal image, well luckily with WooSlider this is a breeze to do.

You simply need to purchase and install WooSlider, then you need to place the code below into your theme’s functions.php file


<?php
add_filter( 'woocommerce_single_product_image_html', 'wc_product_image_slider' );
function wc_product_image_slider() {
return do_shortcode( '[wooslider slider_type="attachments"]' );
}
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Deploy From Github To WordPress.org Plugin Repo — September 8, 2013

Deploy From Github To WordPress.org Plugin Repo

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Deploy straight from Github to WordPress Plugin SVN Repository

Lately I have been working on quite a few WordPress plugins that are hosted in the WordPress.org plugin repository, and since Github is my go to version control system, I like it a lot and we use at WooThemes as well, I got a bit fed up with having to keep a local SVN copy and doing things manually.

After some googling I eventually found a bash script that enables you to deploy directly from your Github repository without the need to keep a local copy of the SVN repository, it is as simple as adding the script below to your Github repo, changing a few lines in the script and then executing it when you want to deploy to the WordPress.org plugin repository/

I take no credit for this script, in fact it was created by a fellow WooCommerce plugin developer, Brent Shepherd, he developed and maintains the awesome WooCommerce Subscriptions extension.

To deploy straight from your Github repository to your WordPress.org Plugins SVN repository, simply copy the bash script below and place it in a new file in your Github repository, I use deploy.sh, once the file is there you can commit it to Github so it is always part of your plugin, then open up the file and edit the following parameters.

PLUGINSLUG – Change this to the slug of the plugin on WordPress.org
MAINFILE – Change this to the main PHP file that contains the WordPress version number of the plugin
SVNUSER – Change this to the WordPress.org username of the user who owns the plugin, it will be commit under this user.

And that is it, once you have modified the file, you will have to make it executable by (chmod u+x deploy.sh) it via terminal, then when you are ready to deploy it, go to your Github repository where you stored the deploy.sh file and run the following command via terminal ./deploy.sh

It will ask you a few questions along the way and do some checks as well as tag the version on Github for you.


#! /bin/bash
# A modification of Dean Clatworthy's deploy script as found here: https://github.com/deanc/wordpress-plugin-git-svn
# The difference is that this script lives in the plugin's git repo & doesn't require an existing SVN repo.
# main config
PLUGINSLUG="camptix-payfast-gateway"
CURRENTDIR=`pwd`
MAINFILE="camptix-payfast.php" # this should be the name of your main php file in the wordpress plugin
# git config
GITPATH="$CURRENTDIR/" # this file should be in the base of your git repository
# svn config
SVNPATH="/tmp/$PLUGINSLUG" # path to a temp SVN repo. No trailing slash required and don't add trunk.
SVNURL="http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/$PLUGINSLUG/&quot; # Remote SVN repo on wordpress.org, with no trailing slash
SVNUSER="Kloon" # your svn username
# Let's begin…
echo "……………………………………"
echo
echo "Preparing to deploy wordpress plugin"
echo
echo "……………………………………"
echo
# Check version in readme.txt is the same as plugin file after translating both to unix line breaks to work around grep's failure to identify mac line breaks
NEWVERSION1=`grep "^Stable tag:" $GITPATH/readme.txt | awk -F' ' '{print $NF}'`
echo "readme.txt version: $NEWVERSION1"
echo "$GITPATH$MAINFILE"
NEWVERSION2=`grep "Version:" $GITPATH$MAINFILE | awk -F' ' '{print $NF}'`
echo "$MAINFILE version: $NEWVERSION2"
if [ "$NEWVERSION1" -ne "$NEWVERSION2" ]; then echo "Version in readme.txt & $MAINFILE don't match. Exiting…."; exit 1; fi
echo "Versions match in readme.txt and $MAINFILE. Let's proceed…"
if git show-ref –tags –quiet –verify — "refs/tags/$NEWVERSION1"
then
echo "Version $NEWVERSION1 already exists as git tag. Exiting….";
exit 1;
else
echo "Git version does not exist. Let's proceed…"
fi
cd $GITPATH
echo -e "Enter a commit message for this new version: \c"
read COMMITMSG
git commit -am "$COMMITMSG"
echo "Tagging new version in git"
git tag -a "$NEWVERSION1" -m "Tagging version $NEWVERSION1"
echo "Pushing latest commit to origin, with tags"
git push origin master
git push origin master –tags
echo
echo "Creating local copy of SVN repo …"
svn co $SVNURL $SVNPATH
echo "Exporting the HEAD of master from git to the trunk of SVN"
git checkout-index -a -f –prefix=$SVNPATH/trunk/
echo "Ignoring github specific files and deployment script"
svn propset svn:ignore "deploy.sh
README.md
.git
.gitignore" "$SVNPATH/trunk/"
echo "Changing directory to SVN and committing to trunk"
cd $SVNPATH/trunk/
# Add all new files that are not set to be ignored
svn status | grep -v "^.[ \t]*\..*" | grep "^?" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn add
svn commit –username=$SVNUSER -m "$COMMITMSG"
echo "Creating new SVN tag & committing it"
cd $SVNPATH
svn copy trunk/ tags/$NEWVERSION1/
cd $SVNPATH/tags/$NEWVERSION1
svn commit –username=$SVNUSER -m "Tagging version $NEWVERSION1"
echo "Removing temporary directory $SVNPATH"
rm -fr $SVNPATH/
echo "*** FIN ***"

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WooCommerce Percentage Saved Sale Price — September 6, 2013

WooCommerce Percentage Saved Sale Price

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WooCommerce Percentage SavedWhen you have items on sale in WooCommerce, by default WooCommerce will display the regular price striked out with the sale price next to it.

Why not take it a step further and show your customers the savings they are getting on the sale price, with this snippet of code you can easily display the percentage saved next to the price of items on sale in WooCommerce.

Place the code below in your theme’s functions.php file


<?php
// Add save percent next to sale item prices.
add_filter( 'woocommerce_sale_price_html', 'woocommerce_custom_sales_price', 10, 2 );
function woocommerce_custom_sales_price( $price, $product ) {
$percentage = round( ( ( $product->regular_price – $product->sale_price ) / $product->regular_price ) * 100 );
return $price . sprintf( __(' Save %s', 'woocommerce' ), $percentage . '%' );
}
?>

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