WooCommerce Tutorials

In this section you can find the latest WooCommerce Tutorials posts to the Silicon Dales website, in the list at the bottom of this page. We have ordered this list with the most recently updated tutorial posted nearest to the top.

If you’d like guidance on anything we have yet to cover, or if you have a WooCommerce task you would like our expert developers to take a look at, please contact us today. If we can’t help you, we will be able to point you in the right direction!

Learn WooCommerce from Expert Developers

Extend and enhance the world’s most loved eCommerce software with these WooCommerce tutorials from the WooExperts at Silicon Dales.

Tutorials from recognised experts

We’re officially verified, accredited expert WooCommerce Developers, which means, as well as working with WooCommerce every day, on behalf of our clients, we’re also recognised as experts by Automattic, who own the WooCommerce brand.

Most recently updated at the top

The tutorials in this page (listed below) are sorted in date order, like most WordPress archives, but with a twist: we pull the most recently updated items to the top.

Contact us if you have issues

If you’ve got a WooCommerce problem bugging you or you’d like to hire someone who had come across your issue before, then don’t hesitate to contact us.

… or Do It Yourself!

For those of you who like to roll your sleeves up and get your hands figuratively dirty delving in the code… read on below. We like to help the Open Source community by empowering you to do just that! Learn from our snippets, and leave a comment wherever you think we could explain better, and let’s make this WooCommerce thing continue to do what its doing so well: becoming the most popular, extensible, eCommerce software on the planet!

See you at the checkout.

Remove Out of Stock products from WooCommerce Related Products

Looking at a WooCommerce client recently who has opted to display (albeit not prominently) out of stock products in their store, sometimes we were seeing those OOS (out of stock) products showing up in Related Products. Since there were 4 slots available, this would sometimes create an undesirable buying experience: why would anyone want to …

How to start with Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) on WordPress

It’s nice when thing’s stay still – especially when you’re looking at a webpage. Simply put, CLS is a measure of how still a webpage stays while a user is looking at it. Google rates this as an important user experience factor. Cumulative Layout Shift scoring and how to improve your site’s score is a …

WooCommerce Hosting – Best Hosts for your Store

Clients often ask for our recommendation when buying web hosting for WordPress and particularly WooCommerce websites. Here, WooExpert Robin Scott gives guidance on choosing the right home for your WP site. The below will be updated in future as recommendations are updated. Best Hosts for WooCommerce Here’s a list in order of my personal preference …

How to disable reviews in WooCommerce

Sometimes clients and developers want to know how to do something… and there’s a setting sitting somewhere, for which the exact option can be configured. This is exactly the case if you are wondering how to disable reviews in a WooCommerce store: there’s a setting! Where is this “Enable Product Reviews” option? Well, you can …

Minimum Requirements for WooCommerce

Below are the minimum requirements for WooCommerce and (by extension) WordPress. Some are taken from WooCommerce, some from WordPress, and also, some, we are adding as recommendations. It should be apparent, below, which is which! Before getting started, if you’re here to assess a WooCommerce host, then you may be interested to check out our …

The Silicon Dales Guide to Updating WooCommerce

WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce plugin for WordPress. Silicon Dales are verified WooExperts and have a wealth of experience assisting a variety online stores operating on the software. For WordPress sites without WooCommerce, see our Guide to Updating WordPress websites here. You will need to update your WooCommerce store for three good reasons: so …

How To Remove Related Products from WooCommerce

The code snippet below will allow you to remove related products from your WooCommerce store, in case you had everything in your store setup just right, and you didn’t want to feature cross sells in your site. Cross sells and upsells Its worth first understanding which related products are being displayed in your site (the …

How to Re-Send Order Emails in WooCommerce

If you would like to re-send any order related emails (AKA transactional mail) in WooCommerce, either to a customer, or to an admin, in order to re-notify after failure to receive, or just to issue a polite reminder about an invoice (or order), then the tutorial below will allow you to do that. How to …

WooCommerce Update: Version 2.6 AKA “Zipping Zebra”

The latest update from WooCommerce came through on 14th June 2016. Named “Zipping Zebra“, the update heralds a handful of very useful features for online store owners. Here’s a summary: Shipping Zones – create your own shipping zones and add multiple flat rates Account Pages – now with attractive tabs Cart Page – a switch to in-page functions …

How to Uninstall and completely remove WooCommerce

I know, right! Why would you want to do that?!

Well, joking aside, there are legitimate reasons to want to take WooCommerce out of a WordPress site (maybe you’re migrating it to its own subdomain, we do this a lot for our clients), and, when you’ve got rid of it, you want to take out all the extra information (products, orders, custom post types, etc etc) from the database because, well, its just a lot of cruft you don’t need if you are completely removing WooCommerce.

Luckily for you, the developers who helped to build WooCommerce had your best interests in mind when they created the plugin, and provided a nice way to simply clean out your database when you remove WooCommerce, by following the simple steps below.