How to Force a Plugin to Claim Compatibility with WooCommerce HPOS

If you want to try WooCommerce HPOS in your website and it says some plugins are incompatible with HPOS, then you should check those plugins’ code first.

First make sure their codes don’t contain “update_post_meta or get_post_meta for orders. (for products it is ok). If they have, it can cause a problem.

If you are sure that the incompatible plugin has nothing to do with HPOS and doesn’t affect order processing, then you can claim it is compatible – without modifying its source code.

Open your theme’s functions.php and place such a block there:

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How to Clean POSTMETA Data of Old Orders After Switching to WooCommerce HPOS

Old Order Deletion Illustration

As of today there is no official guide for this simple need. If you have old orders more than 1000, you are right if you want to get rid of old orders – just to fasten your website.

So i decided to write my own script and apply to my web store with 30K order history.

Step1: I activated HPOS in dual-mode (aka safe mode).

Step2: 1 day passed and i disabled legacy mode and kept HPOS only

Step3: 1 more day passed and i deleted the oldest 5 orders from wp_postmeta.

Step4: Everything looked good, and i did the same for all orders.

Warning: You should take a backup before applying this code:

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Set different “products per page” number for specified WooCommerce Category

You might want to get different product per pages for each category.

For example for Phones category, you want to display 10 phones per page, for Furniture, you want only 4 products per page, for Accessories, you want to display 100 products per page.

To achieve that is easy, here is how:

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Remove pagination trails from WooCommerce Breadcrumb

Today i am sharing small snippet that removes Pagination Trail from WooCommerce breadcrumbs.

Some shop owners may dislike this built-in feature and would like remove WooCommerce pagination links from WooCommerce navigation breadcrumb.

First let’s see how is before-after state of this change.

Before:

After:

Now let’s write a snippet for that:

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Make your WooCommerce search smarter and increase your conversions & sales

Plugin Description

Most WooCommerce store owners just ignores their website’s search section and lose a lot of potential customers due to this. That’s why they keep their theme’s poor search module unchanged. Or in best case they use simple live ajax search, which is not much effective and which is really slow.(in each simple typing a website sends request to server, then server processes the query and returns the needed results)

But E-Commerce search module should be fast, smart, effective and interactive. It should be some kind of bot-assistant which offers your products to customers with all possible ways. It doesn’t matter what they types – search module should recognize their typed words, analyize it, correct it if there is any misspelling and finally suggest related products.
Even if there is no any related product, it should offer some popular items in website – may be a visitor would like to purchase.

WooCommerce Search Box plugin does exactly so. It has unique search algorythm which works at both front-end and backend sides.
When user types something – related products appear lightning fast, without ajax server request. Everything works so fast.


And then, if the visitor makes a typo misspelling, the plugin recognizes it with similarity algorithm and gives the results for auto-corrected keyword.
What happens when a visitor presses enter and leaves the window with live search suggestions. Backend search results comes from theme’s backend code, that’s why it is not smart and it can not show same smart results which was available in live suggestions box. And that would be bad. That’s why WooCommerce Search Box filters backend results with WordPress hooks and forces website to show same smart results with live suggestions box, which is really great.

Or what if a visitor types synonym word instead of the one in product name? (for example, a visitor can type bike instead of bicycle.) You see, there are so many cases where we lose potential customers and their purchases via poor search results. That’s why e-commerce search module should be as much better as it is possible.

Features

  • Same smart search results at live front-end and back-end sides.
  • Typo correction – showing products by auto-corrected keyword if there is a misspelling.
  • Search by Stock Keeping Unit (SKU).
  • Search by custom fields, attributes and description alongside with product title.
  • String Multi-Sequence Checker (It checks all possible combinations of typed keywords).
  • Featured Products at start window.
  • Some custom helper or welcome message at start window.
  • Suggested some popular products when “no results found” appears.
  • Personalized “last visited” products block.
  • Search by similar, synonym words.
  • Search Analytics Admin Page – which collects search keywords and shows useful data charts.
  • Search by Product Category.
  • Supporting all languages and UTF-8.
  • Converting special letters (f.e. é,ç) if a visitor typed similar ones (f.e. e,c)
  • Showing correct prices after all possible active taxes or just without taxes.

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Amazon like Last Visited Products for WooCommerce

2 days ago we, Totheme Labs team released new plugin for WooCommerce, called “Recently Viewed Products for WooCommerce”.

It is beautiful product history plugin for WooCommerce. Shop owner can create separated page, widget, footer popups to display this data to his customers.

Once it is activated, it collects the customer visit data, and shows his history as beautiful charts.

The solution would be useful for shop owners who want to increase sales at their WooCommerce Store.

For example, Amazon.com has been successfully used similar module  in the latest several years.

Amazon.com recently viewed products module.

So if you are WooCommerce shop owner, you can easily get similar solution for your web store.

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Make any search form to take a visitor to WooCommerce Search Results page instead of default WP Search Results page

Usually WooCommerce themes have their own search forms, from simple “input-submit” to advanced “input-filter1-filter2-…-checkbox1-submit” ones.

But sometimes shop owners meet a such problem: Their search form takes the visitor to WP search results page instead of WooCommerce rich search result one.

What is the difference between these two results page?

WP Search results page is simple – it shows all results (in most cases its UI has simple bloggy style, and yeah, bloggy view in WooCommerce search is not suitable UI)

WooCommerce Search Results page is more complitated – Usually it has a product category, parameter filter at sidebar, and its UI is not bloggy, it has normal grid which is important for product view.

woocommerce search results bloggy view

Why does it happen? It happens only when there is missing post_type parameter in url.

When search form submit takes you to shopsite.com/?s=productname  it will show you default WP search view. When search form submit takes you to shopsite.com/?s=productname&post_type=product it will show you correct UI. Normal shop search results page.

So we just need to add missing parameter to search forms, and everything will be ok.

To add this we need very simple script at the footer.

P.S. You may also want to have smart search suggestion box to the WooCommerce with this plugin.