Just recently one of my clients asked me to add a notification feature if an order goes into Pending status in his WooCommerce store. This simple hook helps to solve this problem. This code should be inserted into fucntions.php of your child theme.
WordPress & WooCommerce Hooks and Snippets: Customizing and Extending Functionality
Enhance your WordPress and WooCommerce sites with powerful hooks and custom code snippets. Hooks let you extend or modify functionality without touching core files, making your site more flexible, efficient, and easier to maintain. This method ensures your customizations remain update-friendly and aligned with your business needs.
Whether you’re optimizing for speed, tightening security, or adding new features, these code snippets offer practical solutions. From small enhancements to advanced customizations, you’ll find tools to fine-tune your site and unlock its full potential.
Replacing original image with a smaller copy in WordPress
This hook is particularly beneficial for those aiming to optimize server disk space. If you frequently upload large images to your WordPress site, you may encounter the challenge of expanding disk space over time. While some web hosts might not find this problematic, if you’re hosted on Rocket.net, additional charges may apply for the space […]
Boost WooCommerce SEO with Additional Category Descriptions
If you’ve ever wanted to add extra content to your WooCommerce category pages maybe for SEO, a special promotion, or just to give more context to your category pages you’ve probably noticed that WooCommerce only gives you a single description field. That’s a bit limiting. In this post, I’ll show you how to add a […]
How to prevent bots from adding items to cart – WooCommerce
If you use the Abandoned Cart Recovery for WooCommerce plugin (or its similar plugin), you’ve probably noticed that many products are added by bots. The main problem is that some of these bots are googlebot. Why does Googlebot add items to the cart? Googlebot crawls the site by clicking on all available links, including “Add […]
How to hide woo category from breadcrumbs – All in One SEO
If you want to remove categories from the breadcrumb trail on WooCommerce product pages, there’s a simple solution using a custom WordPress hook. Breadcrumbs are great for improving navigation and SEO, but sometimes you might not want to show certain elements, like categories, especially on product pages where they may clutter the trail. In this […]
How To Customize Yoast SEO Breadcrumbs in WordPress
The Yoast SEO plugin is a popular choice for optimizing content for search engines, and it includes a feature for generating breadcrumbs. Breadcrumbs are a navigational aid that helps users understand the site structure and easily navigate back to previous pages. This hook allows users to add a custom “Blog” link in the Yoast SEO […]