Remove the shipping label in WooCommerce

Posted on September 13, 2017

When you only offer one shipping option in WooCommerce then you may want to show only the shipping cost in the column of the order totals. If you’re using my Advanced Shipping plugin you’ll notice that when you leave the ‘Shipping title’ field empty it will fall back to a standard ‘Shipping’ as a title. This is […]

How to change the city field to a dropdown

Posted on August 15, 2017

For those store owners for who it is needed to setup city based shipping rates this can be a very interesting change. As you may know it is possible to setup city based using my Advanced Shipping for WooCommerce plugin, the downside of that can be that your customers can enter their own values at the […]

Adding custom WooCommerce product fields

Posted on February 21, 2017

In a previous post I wrote about how to add a custom WooCommerce product type, I also scratched the surface there about how to add custom fields to the new product type. Here I want to go a bit more in depth on how to add a new product fields to your WooCommerce products (which […]

Modifying the WooCommerce cart shipping calculator

Posted on November 16, 2016

In most cases WooCommerce will show a couple fields to allow the customer to calculate their shipping cost in the cart. This is always the country field and zip- / postcode field, and sometimes in between those the state / province field. This is a good start, but for some of you who have shipping […]

Adding links to your plugin on the plugins page

Posted on June 08, 2016

When you’re building a plugin you of course want the best experience for the users. One part of this is the ability to easily install and use the plugin. The first time the plugin is installed, it would be great to be able to quickly navigate to the settings page if you have one, right […]

Putting a limit / minimum on your shipping cost

Posted on May 06, 2016

In my experience around shipping in WooCommerce I’ve found that there are countless different needs for setting up shipping cost. One that comes back from time to time is setting up a minimum or maximum shipping cost to shipping rates. In this post I’ll show you ways on how you can setup these caps on […]

Splitting Shipping Packages in WooCommerce

Posted on February 12, 2016

In WooCommerce version 2.1 a new feature was introduced that allowed one order to have multiple shipping packages. Having multiple shipping packages can come in handy in various situations. One that comes to mind at first is when you actually have multiple packages, for example when you can’t ship items together, or when someone has […]

Adding a custom WooCommerce product type

Posted on December 16, 2015

I have used custom product types a couple times in the past for different projects where it made sense (for example for a product rental plugin I created both a ‘simple rental’ and ‘variable rental’ product). It is only recommended to create a custom product type when it is really necessary and it doesn’t fit in the […]

Apply Free Shipping for Specific Products in WooCommerce

Posted on December 03, 2015

Applying free shipping on orders can be great incentive for (potential) customers to order on your website. In some cases it is not possible to ship all products free and you only want to ship a specific product or group of products to ship for free. In this post I will go through setting this […]

Only show free/cheapest/most expensive shipping in WooCommerce

Posted on November 19, 2015

You may have setup different shipping rates in your WooCommerce store. What you want and need to charge for shipping is different in each webshop and it is very hard to set things up exactly the way you need it. In this post I will show you how you can only show the cheapest shipping method or the […]