Hello there,
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.
Yesterday was my birthday (feel free to reply and guess my age!), and it turned into an unexpected no-work Tuesday. Between sports, cakes, games, and a well-deserved bottle of beer, the day flew by in the best possible way.
On the business side, tomorrow is the big day: the final masterclass before the summer break goes live – Supercharge WooCommerce With Custom Product Options. If you think product add-ons are just “add a checkbox to the single product page”, you’re in for a surprise. I’ll be demoing four advanced case studies that push the limits of what’s possible. 28 people are already in – grab your spot here: https://www.businessbloomer.com/class/supercharge-woocommerce-with-custom-product-options/
Meanwhile, my summer to-do list is expanding fast – it helps me stay motivated, and I wonder if you do the same. That said, overall traffic, revenue, and sales are on a downward trend lately… but the Business Bloomer Club and this newsletter are keeping me afloat, and I’m hoping to build even more around them in the coming months.
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: Bulk Delete Pending / Failed Scheduled Actions
In a recent project, I needed a quick way to bulk delete pending and failed Action Scheduler jobs directly from the WordPress dashboard—so I built a custom tool for it. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce Cart Sessions and Persistent Cart Explained
If you’ve ever wondered how WooCommerce stores cart data or how it behaves across different users, this post summarizes key findings and links directly to WooCommerce core code and discussions that could impact future releases. [Business Bloomer]
How to Build a Winning Customer Retention Strategy in WooCommerce
If you run a store, or any business, really, chances are you’ve heard of the term customer retention. Sounds fancy, but it’s actually quite simple – getting people to come back after they buy something from you. And if you want to build something that lasts, retention is one of the few things that actually matter. [CheckoutWC]
Create a Simple “Design Your Ring” Builder With WooCommerce
Selling custom rings on WooCommerce is a great way to tap into the growing demand for personalized jewelry, and it often means higher margins too! But to really stand out, your product needs one key feature: customers should be able to design their own ring by choosing materials, stones, and more — and see a live preview of the result. [Studio Wombat]
How to Come up With New Product Ideas for Your Ecommerce Store
Finding new product ideas that sell can feel daunting, and there are so many reasons behind this. From having so much competition in ecommerce and wrong timing to the risk of your idea being impractical, just to mention a few. [Iconic]
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.
Free Masterclasses Open For Registration
- May 22: Supercharge WooCommerce With Custom Product Options (product “add-ons” can do much more than just add text boxes or checkboxes to the product page. In this class, we’ll explore 4 advanced use cases that you might not have known were possible).
- Sep 16: Classic vs Block: Add, Remove & Edit WooCommerce Checkout Fields (let’s dive into the ins and outs of customizing WooCommerce checkout fields, comparing the Classic Checkout with the Checkout Block).
Missed a class? No worries — you can catch up anytime with our growing archive of 25+ recorded sessions packed with WooCommerce insights.
This Week’s WooCommerce Bites
- WooCommerce: Adding Variation Price Editing to Quick Edit
- WooCommerce Code Snippets vs. AI: Fighting for Traffic
- WooCommerce: Moving and Editing Fields on the Checkout Page
- WooCommerce and TranslatePress: Fixing Download URL Issues for Translated Sites
- WooCommerce: Removing Out-of-Stock Products from Related Products
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ICYMI: WooCommerce Snippets
WooCommerce: Redirect Empty Paginated Category Pages (404)
When managing a WooCommerce store, it’s common to rearrange products or remove them from certain categories. However, this can lead to an unexpected issue: paginated product category URLs (e.g. /product-category/shirts/page/3/) may still be accessible even when that specific page no longer contains any products. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Complete Button @ Order Admin
Typically, to mark an order as “Completed,” you’d have to open the order, change the status from the dropdown, and then click “Update”. That’s an extra step that can feel repetitive if you’re doing it often. In this quick developer tutorial, I’ll show you how to add a “Complete Order” button directly to the single order edit page in the WooCommerce admin. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Allow Guest Checkout For Existing Customers
If you disable Guest Checkout via the settings, all customers are required to either log into an existing account or register a new one during checkout. The problem? Returning customers who aren’t logged in will be forced to remember their credentials or manually reset their password, just to place another order. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Simplify Free Checkout
If your WooCommerce store occasionally offers free products—whether as part of a promotion, a free trial, or a lead magnet—you may have noticed that the default checkout still displays all billing (and shipping) fields. Thankfully, there’s a simple way to customize this behavior and show only the checkout fields you truly need. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Inject Ad After the nth Product @ Shop Page
Is it possible to insert a custom loop item, such as a promotional banner or a “fake” product, into the WooCommerce shop page after a specific number of real products – for example, after the third one? Spoiler alert: yes, it is! [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Prevent Duplicate Orders
Sometimes customers accidentally submit the same order twice, or there may be a temporary issue with a WooCommerce payment gateway or a plugin conflict—such as the Sucuri Firewall problem in March 2025. This can result in duplicate charges, refunds, chargebacks, admin costs and a poor user experience. [Business Bloomer]
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: 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]
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