WooCommerce products

Build a custom WooCommerce storefront with the Store API and React The WooCommerce Store API (/wp-json/wc/store/v1) is the API behind the Cart and Checkout blocks. It is made for the front end: public product data needs no authentication, the cart belongs to the visitor’s session, and it returns prices, images and stock in a form…

Several currencies in WooCommerce: what a small plugin can do and where it stops A shop that sells abroad wants prices in the visitor’s currency. WooCommerce has one store currency, and multi-currency plugins do a lot of work behind the scenes: converting prices, rounding them, charging the right currency through the payment gateway, and keeping…

WooCommerce product recommendations with your own scoring WooCommerce upsells and cross-sells are curated by hand: the shop owner links related products one by one. On a store with hundreds of products nobody keeps that up to date. A simple algorithm based on what customers actually bought together, weighted by category, gives a relevant “Customers also…

Tiered and role-based prices in WooCommerce without a pricing plugin Two pricing rules come up in almost every B2B or mixed shop: wholesale customers pay less, and larger carts get a discount. Dynamic pricing plugins cover hundreds of rule types; for these two, a few hooks are enough. The important decision is where each rule…

MySQL JSON_TABLE: turn JSON into rows you can join and aggregate Data in a JSON column is easy to store and awkward to report on: a JSON array of order lines from an external system cannot be summed with SUM() or joined to wp_posts as it is. JSON_TABLE() turns a JSON document into a temporary…

WooCommerce product images from URLs: sideload, gallery and REST API Product data from a supplier usually comes with image URLs, not files. The WooCommerce REST API can take those URLs and download the images itself, and in PHP the same is done with media_sideload_image() plus set_image_id() and set_gallery_image_ids(). The parts that are easy to get…

Extend the WooCommerce REST API: extra fields and custom routes An ERP or a mobile app talks to WooCommerce through /wp-json/wc/v3/. Sooner or later it needs data that WooCommerce does not expose: an internal supplier code on products, a B2B account number on customers, or a resource of the plugin itself. There are two clean…

A custom WooCommerce product type WooCommerce ships with simple, variable, grouped and external products. A service with a booking date, a gift card or a license with seats does not fit any of them well, and storing “this simple product is actually a service” in a meta field leads to checks scattered all over the…

A simple composite product in WooCommerce without a plugin A composite product lets the customer build one item from components: a gift box with a choice of tea, mug and card, or a computer with a choice of processor and memory. Extensions do this with full stock handling for every component. For a shop with…