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.

How to Re-Send Order Emails in WooCommerce

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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.

Overhauling your eCommerce website for 2019

Looking ahead to the future for retail in 2019, we know that consumers, partners, app marketplaces and search engines will now be expecting much more from top online retailers. Everything from up-to-the-minute stock levels delivered via API, through to product listings with full documentation, 360 zoom images, video and testimonials from social media as well …

Remove the Description tab from WooCommerce

Ever wanted to remove the description tab from your WooCommerce website? Maybe you put the short description at the top and its pretty much the same text? Whatever the reason, if you’d like to remove the description tab from WooCommerce, you can do so using the snippet below, which should be added to functions.php, or …

Remove “box” from around links and menu items in WooCommerce Storefront

Are you looking to take out the outline (dotted or otherwise) from around menu (and other) links in your WooCommerce store – these links show up on click briefly, and look like this: Storefront added a host of accessibility features a while back – in version 1.4 – which specifically included adding these features to …

How to display WooCommerce my account page link to logged in users – or login / register link if not logged in

Ever wanted to display a my account page link in your WooCommerce theme files, and to have this changed to “Login / Register” in case your user is not logged in, dynamically? Well the snippet below, when added into the relevant location in your theme template files will do just that! We tend to wrap …

Troubleshoot & Fix WooCommerce Subscriptions 2.1 Upgrade Issues

If you recently updated WooCommerce Subscriptions to the much awaited and hotly anticipated version 2.1, you may find that there are a few nifty new features. Things like automatically retrying failed payments are now a thing, and much more. But, as with any update, you may run into issues and incompatibilities. This will be particularly so …

How to Remove a Tab from WooCommerce

Have you ever wanted to remove or disable a particular tab, or tabs, from your WooCommerce store? The snippet below will allow you to do just that, from your theme’s functions.php file. Remove Tabs from WooCommerce Add the snippet below to your child theme’s functions.php file. Be sure to remove the tabs you wanted (the …

How to setup WordPress & WooCommerce on AWS using Cloudways

This guide is intended to show how to setup a WordPress and WooCommerce installation on Cloudways (a managed cloud hosting panel, which does most of the “heavy lifting” when it comes to setting up all the necessary components to run a cloud hosted web application). It contains our Cloudways referal link and also there’s our …