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A fast and reliable way to change WooCommerce behaviours

While working on WooCommerce websites, I’ve found that I was using (most of the times) 4 simple functions that allowed me to have a superior control on the created e-commerce solution.

In this post you’ll find functions for:

• Add WooCommerce CSS classes to any template you want
• Change WooCommerce products per page and product columns on listings
• Add BCC to all emails sent by WooCommerce
• Remove WooCommerce hooked actions and create your own function with it

Add WooCommerce CSS classes to a page template or a single template from custom post type

add_filter('body_class','add_this_classes');

function add_this_classes($classes) {
        //if is single from CPT "post_type" or page template "template.php"
	if(is_singular('post_type') || is_page_template('template.php')){

		// add 'class-name' to the $classes array
		$classes[] = 'woocommerce';
		$classes[] = 'woocommerce-page';

	}

	// return the $classes array
	return $classes;
}

Change WooCommerce products per page and columns

//Change products per page to 20
add_filter( 'loop_shop_per_page', create_function( '$cols', 'return 20;' ), 20 );
add_filter('loop_shop_columns', 'loop_columns');

if (!function_exists('loop_columns')) {

	function loop_columns() {

		return 8; //change to 8 columns

	}

}

Add BCC in all emails sent by WooCommerce

add_filter( 'woocommerce_email_headers', 'add_bcc_all_emails', 10, 2);

function add_bcc_all_emails($headers, $object) {

	$headers = array();
	$headers[] = 'Bcc: Name <[email protected]>';
	$headers[] = 'Content-Type: text/html';

	return $headers;
}

Remove WooCommerce hooked action and use the function from it

//Remove add to cart from single product summary
remove_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', 'woocommerce_template_single_add_to_cart', 30 );

woocommerce_template_single_add_to_cart();

This post has an updated version on WooCommerce and WooCommerce Subscriptions – Automatically set order status to completed

Using Filter: woocommerce_payment_complete_order_status

Sometimes when you’re developing an e-commerce website you’ll need to automatically check the payment status and mark an order as completed.

This usually implies that you’re selling a “virtual good” but not always, I’ve been developing a store that sells “virtual goods” that aren’t marked as such in WooCommerce due to some internal functionalities.

WooCommerce does this behavior automatically on virtual goods but not in general, also I’ve other payment methods that have a callback and I need this behavior in those as well.

To achieve this, I’ve used the function:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_payment_complete_order_status', 'rfvc_update_order_status', 10, 2 );

function rfvc_update_order_status( $order_status, $order_id ) {

 $order = new WC_Order( $order_id );

 if ( 'processing' == $order_status && ( 'on-hold' == $order->status || 'pending' == $order->status || 'failed' == $order->status ) ) {

 return 'completed';

 }

 return $order_status;
}

This function does 2 simple things, first using the filter it’s hooked to the payment status change to complete, when it happens, it checks the order status, and if it has changed to “processing” and has previously set as “on-hold”, “pending” or “failed” the new status will be “completed”, allowing all the actions set to this status to occur automatically.

Using this hook will allow you to set this behavior to all payment methods at once, but if you wish you could also check the payment method from the order, and filter the change accordingly.