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Welcome back to WooWeekly! I’m glad you’re here for another round of WooCommerce insights. Every week, I curate tips and tutorials for you to help you sharpen your WooCommerce skills.
The flu has hit again, and it feels never-ending—especially with the little one stuck at home, missing school and sports. Could be better, considering my dad is facing another surgery. Three years of hospital visits have taken a toll, and it’s exhausting for everyone.
On the business side, there’s finally some good news—March plugin sales picked up with 24 premium and 25 free downloads, a nice jump from January and February (19 & 22).
Plus, I received some great reviews and released the first-ever add-on to one of my… add-ons! This could be interesting (it’s for the CC BCC email recipients mini plugin, and adds per-product email recipients), though I’m still figuring out the best way to feature it on the page—banner, FAQ mention, pricing table? Open to ideas!
Meanwhile, I’m gearing up for April’s masterclasses and looking forward to diving into Google Sheets and Conversion Rate Optimization. Should be a fun month!
Anyhow, here’s your weekly round-up of WooCommerce tips and tricks. Enjoy!
Rodolfo Melogli
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WooCommerce Tips, Snippets & Tutorials
Here is a collection of posts to answer your biggest WooCommerce questions. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced store owner, these resources will help you optimize your WooCommerce store and grow your online business.
WooCommerce: Auto-Hide Products Without a Featured Image
Instead of manually checking and updating each product, you can use a simple PHP snippet to exclude products missing a featured image from your shop, category, and search pages. This approach keeps your store looking polished while preventing customers from encountering blank product thumbnails. The best part? It only takes a few lines of code to implement. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce Cart Optimization: Skip-to-Checkout Strategies
By removing unnecessary steps between product selection and payment, you can significantly reduce friction in your checkout process. In this guide, we’ll explore three effective methods to skip the cart page in WooCommerce. [CheckoutWC]
How to Add Wishlists to Your WooCommerce Store (In Just 5 Simple Steps)
Wishlists are a convenient feature for shoppers. They’re a powerful tool for increasing sales, improving customer experience, and building long-term brand loyalty. Here’s why every WooCommerce store should have them. [Iconic]
WooCommerce for education: A smart way to manage learning online
WooCommerce helps individual educators set up shop for selling courses. Universities can simplify tuition payments. Even training academies can provide digital downloads. All of this while saving time and creating a simple experience for students. [Kinsta]
The Club Corner
Every week I share some highlights from our private community of Woo professionals – the Business Bloomer Club – which gives its members lifetime access to (1) WooCommerce support, (2) WooCommerce courses, (3) WooCommerce webinars, and (4) member-only resources.
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- April 17: How to Sync WooCommerce & Google Sheets Without Plugins!
- April 29: Spotting WooCommerce Conversion Rate Killers: A Live Audit
This Week’s Top Conversations
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ICYMI: WooCommerce Snippets
WooCommerce: Hide Columns @ My Account Downloads Table
Want to customize the WooCommerce “Downloads” table on the My Account page? By default, WooCommerce displays multiple columns (“Product”, “Downloads remaining”, “Expires”, “Download”), but you may want to remove some for a cleaner look or to focus on essential information. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Add Column to Orders Table @ WP Dashboard
So the question is: how can we display additional columns in the orders table, so that we can display an order custom field, a specific product contained in the order, or anything order-related that can be “calculated” once we have access to the $order variable? Note: this snippet is not compatible with HPOS, as it relies on legacy hooks. For an HPOS-compatible solution, please consider the suggested free plugin. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Automatically Complete Processing Orders
If you wish to mark paid orders as “Completed” automatically (i.e. without having to manually login to the site and “check” processing orders one by one), you can use this code. Apparently, this won’t work with COD / BACS / Cheque orders when order total is > 0, so I also coded a free plugin to get this sorted. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Show/Hide Registration Form on Login Page
WooCommerce by default displays both login and registration forms on the same page when “Allow customers to create an account“ is enabled on the My Account page. However, for a cleaner and more user-friendly experience, you may want to hide the registration form initially. This method keeps the interface focused while still allowing easy access to the registration option. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Add “Leave a Review” Column to Downloads Table
This snippet modifies the WooCommerce My Account downloads section, ensuring customers can leave product reviews directly from their available downloads. The button appears only for products that haven’t been reviewed yet. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Search Orders By 2-Letter Country Code [HPOS]
WooCommerce’s order search function is essential for store admins, but with the introduction of High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS), searching by billing or shipping country code may no longer work as expected. If you’re used to quickly filtering orders by country, this limitation can be frustrating. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to bring back this functionality using a custom code snippet. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Programmatically Mark Products As Featured
For store owners managing hundreds of products, setting featured items manually is inefficient. A dynamic approach can save admin time by automatically marking products as featured based on specific conditions, such as category, price, or custom logic. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Sticky Product “Update” Button @ WP Admin
In the WooCommerce product edit / add new product screen, the “Publish” / “Update” button is crucial for saving changes. However, when editing long product descriptions, adding images, or configuring variations, the button can disappear as you scroll down. A simple solution is to make the button sticky, ensuring it remains visible no matter how far you scroll. [Business Bloomer]
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