Adding a WooCommerce bulk discount to your products makes it possible to offer your customers powerful incentives to buy more. Bulk discounts are surely one of the oldest sales techniques known to humanity because they appeal to our love of getting something cheaper.
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How to protect WooCommerce 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 assign different rules to different categories.
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How to move domain without losing SEO or subscription payments
I recently rebranded this website, moving from one domain to a new domain. In doing so, I had three major concerns:
- I’d lose all the SEO value I’d built up over the years for the previous domain – and therefore all the traffic I get from search
- I’d no longer be able to collect recurring payments for plugins purchased from the site on the old domain
- Users would not be able to get automatic updates for new versions of products
This is a step-by-step account of everything I did to ensure that my worst fears weren’t realised.
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How to create private categories in WooCommerce
Sometimes, as crazy as it seems, you don’t want to sell your products to just anyone. Of course, you’re in business to make money but there are times when you want to protect your products, only allowing certain customers to purchase them. In this article I’ll look at how you can protect your WooCommerce products by category.
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How to add an input field to WooCommerce cart items
This is a simple method to add a text input field to each WooCommerce cart item. Customers can enter text into the field which will be saved as meta data to the cart item – so you will receive it with the order.
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Hello Plugin Republic
I’ve rebranded Catapult Themes to Plugin Republic.
Why the rebrand?
The name ‘Catapult Themes’ was increasingly becoming a misnomer. Although I had a couple of themes for sale, I have been focusing on plugins, and making the switch to concentrate solely on plugins made sense for the following reasons: Read more
WooCommerce dynamic pricing
In this article I’m going to show you how to create dynamic pricing rules using WooCommerce and the WooCommerce Fees and Discounts plugin. Read more
How to create a WooCommerce members only store
You can create a WooCommerce members only store in a matter of a few minutes. This article will walk you through what is entailed in having a members only store in WooCommerce (also called a private or hidden store) and shows you step-by-step how to create one using the WooCommerce Members Only plugin.
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Prevent widget from displaying programmatically
While developing the WooCommerce Members Only plugin, I wanted a way to ensure that widgets were only available for certain users. You can do this using the widget_display_callback filter – just return false to prevent the widget content from being rendered. Read more
How to update existing WooCommerce cart meta data
Here’s the situtation: you’d like to update the meta data for items that have already been added to the cart. Updating meta data before or as an item is added to the cart is simple, you’d use the woocommerce_add_cart_item_data filter. But to update items that are already in the cart is trickier. Here’s how: