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Automatically update user roles after purchasing a product in WooCommerce

Do you want to assign your customers with different user roles when they purchase certain products? In this article, I’ll show you how to automatically set the user’s roles after making a purchase depending on which WooCommerce product(s) they’ve bought.

How to create WooCommerce percentage discounts

Percentages are probably the most common way of implementing discounts in online stores. In this article we’re going to look at a couple of very simple ways to create discount percentages in WooCommerce.

How to create WooCommerce protected categories (by user role or password)

I recently looked at methods to create private categories in WooCommerce. In this article, we’ll take things a stage further and look at how to create WooCommerce password protected categories or categories that are only available to certain user roles.

How to set prices by user role in WooCommerce (2 easy steps)

Would you like to offer your customers different prices according to their user role? In this article I’ll show you how to set prices by user role in WooCommerce in three easy steps.

How to build a ‘create your own cereal’ product in WooCommerce

Do you want your customers to be able to create their own cereal, muesli or granola? In this article, I’ll show you how to create a WooCommerce product where customers can specify their cereal type, add extras like fruit and nuts, and show nutritional information based on their choices. We’ll even let them create a custom name for their cereal.

How to create a WooCommerce product for die cut stickers

If you have a WooCommerce store selling stickers or decals, you might want the option to let users upload their own designs. Most probably, you’ll want to allow users to select a size and choose the quantity of stickers as well. The price will be calculated according to a formula based on size and quantity. In this article, I’ll show you how to do this with a WooCommerce product.

WooCommerce Add Product – the complete guide

This is your complete guide to adding a new product in WooCommerce – everything that you need to know from the moment you click that ‘Add New’ button.

WooCommerce flower shop: how to create an online florist in WordPress

You’d like to build a WooCommerce flower shop so that you can sell floral arrangements online. In this article, I’ll show you how to set up your products and add extra options that will allow your customers to personalise their order.

We’ll walk through building a product from scratch, adding the extra fields, and refer to some real-life examples to see how other WooCommerce flower shops work.

Custom fields for WooCommerce variations

In this article, we’ll look at how to add WooCommerce custom fields for variations. Custom fields can mean either:

Fields to display additional data about a variation, or
Fields to accept user input for customising the product variation

We’ll look at both options.

How to add gift wrapping to WooCommerce products in three easy steps

You’d like the option to add gift wrapping to your WooCommerce products. In this article, we’ll look at three easy steps to give your customers the option of having their products gift wrapped, including how to offer a gift message.