WooCommerce turns any WordPress site into a fully functional online store. Whether you’re setting up your first shop or customizing an existing one, this category covers the practical side of running a WooCommerce store.
Start with What is WooCommerce or jump straight to building your store step by step. You’ll find guides on stock management, tax settings, product variations, coupons, and WooCommerce hooks for developers who want deeper customization.
The Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) is the price that a manufacturer recommends retailers sell a product for. You’ve probably seen this tactic in ads or flyers: “MSRP: $140. Our price: $99 only!” Displaying the MSRP alongside your actual selling [...]
High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS), previously called Custom Order Tables, is a new WooCommerce feature that stores order data in dedicated database tables instead of the default WordPress _posts and _postmeta. HPOS was introduced in WooCommerce version 8.2. It’s enabled by [...]
WooCommerce is a powerful platform for setting up an online store, and managing taxes efficiently is one of its key features. Whether you run a local shop or sell internationally, WooCommerce offers robust tax options to help you comply with [...]
Accurate stock management prevents overselling and stockouts. In WooCommerce, built-in inventory tools let you track quantities, set low-stock alerts, and control backorders at the global and per-product level. This guide walks through the full WooCommerce inventory setup – from global [...]
In this guide, I’ll explain how to create product variations in WooCommerce (Variable Products). I’ll show you how to assign attributes, terms, and different variations to your products, as well as how to set images for each product variation. Before [...]
Coupons, in our case WooCommerce coupons, can boost sales in your online store. You can sell products faster, sell more products, and even increase traffic to your site using these coupons. Using coupons also allows you to improve brand awareness, [...]
By default, WooCommerce uses AJAX to add products to the cart on archive pages without a page reload. However, the add-to-cart button on single product pages triggers a full page refresh. This guide shows how to enable AJAX add-to-cart on [...]
If you take a look at most serious digital stores, you will see that when a product is added to the shopping cart, there is some indication that the product has been added. Whether it’s a text message on the [...]
WooCommerce tracks the total number of units sold for each product. Displaying this number on the product page can serve as social proof and help increase conversions. Let’s see how to show the sold count next to the “Add to [...]
If you have tried using the in_category() function to check if a specific product belongs to a certain product category, you probably did not succeed. In this guide, we will see why… This is a common mistake indeed. So let’s [...]
WooCommerce is undoubtedly the most powerful E-Commerce plugin for WordPress. One of its main advantages is that it provides an API that allows you to do almost anything you want with your digital store. In this post, we will explain [...]
wc_get_products() and WC_Product_Query are the correct way to retrieve products in WooCommerce. They are functionally equivalent to get_posts and WP_Query in WordPress core, and they accept an array of arguments to define your query criteria. Avoid using WP_Query or direct [...]
