Disallow shipping to Parcel Lockers & P.O. Boxes in WooCommerce
P.O. Boxes and Parcel Lockers are typically operated by a country’s national mail service, making them inaccessible to stores that use private couriers to deliver goods. Fortunately, WooCommerce makes is easy to reject P.O. Box or Parcel Locker numbers entered into the checkout. To block Parcel Locker and P.O. boxes…
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Add a “Sold Out” badge to out of stock products
Customers will become frustrated or disappointed if they click on a product in your catalog, only to find it’s unavailable. A small “sold out” badge provides a quick visual indicator to your customers to let them know that the product is out of stock, before they waste time clicking on…
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Find WooCommerce products without a shipping class
Shipping classes are used to group similar products together to provide different flat-rate shipping costs to each group. In a recent project, we grouped about a thousand products into three shipping classes; 500g satchel, 1kg satchel, or bulky parcel. The size of the inventory practically guaranteed that a few products…
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WooCommerce Plugin: SKU Price Update tool
SKU Price Update is a little WooCommerce plugin requested by a client to make price updates faster and easier. It’s very straightforward; just enter the product (or variation) SKU, and the desired price, then click Change Price. When installed, the SKU Price Update tool is added to the WordPress Dashboard…
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List Category-Specific Product Tags in WooCommerce
It’s very easy to produce a list of WooCommerce product tags, but limiting that list to just the tags in a specific product category is quite a bit more challenging. In order to achieve this, we need to do three things: 1. Loop through all of the products in the…
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How to hide product SKUs in WooCommerce
In this post, we look at some methods to prevent customers from being able to see product SKUs, while keeping them available for store management purposes. WooCommerce doesn’t force you to provide an SKU, so it’s possible to avoid showing SKUs by simply not adding them to your products or…
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How to limit search results to WooCommerce products
WordPress’ default search will return all of the pages, posts, and products that match the specified search phrase. This snippet will filter search results so that only WooCommerce products are shown.
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