WooWeekly #245: Customer Email Greetings (Plus: Writing Shortcodes)

How you doing?

I’m flying to Prague tomorrow for my first WordCamp of the year (where I’m also speaking) so I’m getting the last bits ready. Hope all is well with you too!

Anyway, it’s Wednesday; our appointment with WooCommerce Weekly is back *** ! Here comes a series of WooCommerce tutorials, tips, reviews and workarounds put together by yours truly so that you can learn something “Woo”. Enjoy 🙂

*** If things go well in Prague and I’m able to take a few days off, I might not send next week’s newsletter. So, we’ll “chat” again in a couple of weeks!

WooCommerce: Hide “Thanks for shopping with us” etc. @ Emails

WooCommerce emails come with the following hard-coded (argh!) greetings: ‘Thanks for shopping with us.‘, ‘Thanks for reading.‘, ‘We look forward to seeing you soon.‘, ‘We look forward to fulfilling your order soon.‘, ‘Thanks!‘, ‘We hope to see you again soon.‘ based on the specific email.

While having these greetings in the WooCommerce customer email footer may look nice and friendly, it is unlike WooCommerce to present them without the possibility to “filter” them out (i.e. removing them if you don’t want them).

So, a workaround is necessary. And it’s pretty simple: we just tell WooCommerce to “translate” those strings into empty strings, so that they don’t show. Enjoy: https://businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-hide-thanks-for-shopping-with-us-etc-emails/

WooCommerce: How to Write Shortcodes Without Outputting Content?

When I write tutorials I often need to “write” on the screen the actual shortcode – but I don’t want the shortcode to output content!

For example, if I write

So there is a great workaround for those of you who write tutorials, snippets and WordPress articles and need to print the actual shortcode on the screen, without making it “process” its content and outputting it.

Enjoy: https://businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-shortcodes-without-output/

WooCommerce Competition!

Last week I received a great news: a WooCommerce theme company I usually purchase themes from launched an insane WooCommerce competition, so I thought of sharing it with you too. CommerceGurus WooCommerce Giveaway is still open until March 1st – you can win incredible WooCommerce prizes worth over $5,000 and grow your business in 2019. 262 people entered so far 🙂 Good luck!