WooCommerce, by default, only recognizes countries/regions which are listed in the ISO 3166 standard. The body who determines valid countries is a trusted and reliable source and it has been the stance of the development team to use this list as the “source of truth”. This does tend to cause problems for example, if a […]
Raspberry Pi Security System
My wife and I are currently on an overland trip down the Pan-American Highway. You can read more about that on The Life Nomadic. As we were making preparations for that trip we did what most people would do in a similar situation, we started reading blogs about this kind of trip. No reason to […]
Use Custom SKU field From LightSpeed POS as the WooCommerce SKU
By default, the WooCommerce LightSpeed POS will use the item id from LightSpeed as the product sku on your WooCommerce shop. You may wish to use the custom SKU on LightSpeed instead. The good news is that when a product is imported from LightSpeed to WooCommerce the initial data associated with that product is stored in the product […]
Bypass Subscriptions’ ‘pending cancellation’ status and move directly to ‘cancelled’
Update 28 June 2018: The fine folks at Prospress have provided some updated code which works with newer versions of WooCommerce Subscriptions. WooCommerce Subscriptions by default will move a subscription to a ‘pending cancellation’ status when cancelled either by the subscriber or the shop manager. The purpose of this is to provide access to a subscribed product for the remainder […]
Translate the WooCommerce Subscriptions “Sign Up Now” Button Text
Because WooCommerce Subscriptions provides a way to easily customize the “Add to Cart/Sign Up Now” button text via the admin dashboard it is impractical and unfeasible to translate that button text on the front end of your shop. WooCommerce provides a filter named woocommerce_product_add_to_cart_text which can be used to translate this text, however. Below is an example: […]
Dynamically Change Order Date on Status Change
Are old failed payments that are eventually paid for causing havoc with your reporting workflow because they get missed? WooCommerce offers a variety of action hooks on order status changes that can be used to dynamically change the order date. As an example of this, see the code snippet below: Not sure what to do with […]
Automatically Mark Order as Not Exported on Status Change
Automatic exports with the Customer/Order CSV Export will not export orders that have previously been marked as exported. This is intentional to prevent duplication of exported orders. However, consider this case: An export was done which includes orders in a failed status. The automatic export configuration is changed to only include orders in a processing status The […]
Japanese State Names in Order/Customer CSV Export
3 November 2016 Update: As of WooCommerce Customer/Order CSV Export version 4.1, this will no longer be needed as version 4.1 will be using a state name instead of the code for the five countries which use this type of format. Japanese addresses are a bit of a special case – apparently they roll a little bit differently. […]
Move WooCommerce Box Office Form Fields
By Default, WooCommerce Box Office renders the add to cart/buy ticket now button before the form fields. In some cases this may be undesirable. If you would rather render the fields before the button, use the below snippet of code: Not sure what to do with code snippets? See What Do I Do With These […]
Complex Pricing in WooCommerce Bookings
WooCommerce Bookings provides a way for people to sell time based products and it can be made to work with a wide variety of use-cases. Unfortunately, in order to be able to work with this wide range of use-cases the configuration can be quite challenging and the interface can get difficult to use to set up […]