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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce Checkout Block Support in Twilio SMS Notifications

The latest update to our Twilio SMS Notifications extension—version 1.19.0—introduces support for WooCommerce’s block-based checkout experience. This update was several months in the making, so we wanted to take the opportunity to give a look into our development experience integrating with WooCommerce’s Checkout block. We’ll discuss the challenges we faced, the decisions that shaped this release, and look at the state of block extensibility in WooCommerce. WooCommerce Checkout Block Integration – A History Starting with…

How to Troubleshoot WooCommerce Scheduled Events Failures

Have you noticed that automatic or scheduled events on your WooCommerce store may have stopped working? Issues like stock levels not updating, order statuses remaining unchanged, or scheduled sales and coupons failing to execute can disrupt your store’s operations. If you’re using plugins from SkyVerge, these issues can sometimes stem from conflicts or cron job failures. Fortunately, there are ways to diagnose and resolve the problem. What are scheduled events? Scheduled events in WordPress and…

Tips & How To Tutorials January 30, 2025

How to: Import WooCommerce Memberships and Subscriptions

When transitioning memberships and subscriptions, following a structured process is essential to maintain proper functionality. While it’s not currently possible to import WooCommerce memberships and subscriptions simultaneously, this guide will walk you through the steps to complete the process effectively. To get started, we recommend installing the Import Export Suite for WooCommerce. This plugin simplifies importing critical data like Users, Products, Orders, Reviews, Coupons, and Subscriptions. For memberships, our Memberships plugin will allow you to import the Members to connect…

Tips & How To Tutorials December 9, 2024

Automate WooCommerce Member Coupons with AutomateWoo

One question we’ve gotten a lot is how to give members or subscribers a periodic discount for products on your site, which is no easy feat to accomplish. Sites with subscriptions or memberships that entitle members to a set number of free or discounted products each month have difficulty creating this kind of system. WooCommerce Memberships can let you create “Member Discounts”, which essentially give your members a members-only price on your products. However, these…

WooCommerce Development July 15, 2024

How to Export WooCommerce Refunded Orders

When we discussed how to get all WooCommerce orders with a refund, we talked about why the “refunded” status isn’t a great way of tracking orders with a refund, as a partially-refunded order will not have that status. We put together a helper function to directly query refunds and return the associated order IDs for them. Now let’s talk about a good use-case for that helper: exporting refunded orders. This tutorial requires intermediate PHP and…

Tutorials WooCommerce Development April 12, 2017

Moving WooCommerce Related Items to a Product Tab

Back in action this week with some tutorials scheduled! First up, we have an Ask SkyVerge question today from Rebecca: You’ve got a great article on how to move product upsells to a widget. But what about moving them to a tab? I’d love your ideas on how to make the tab disappear if there are no upsells. Definitely possible! By default, the upsells are shown on the product page below the product description: We…

Tutorials WooCommerce Development March 21, 2017

WooCommerce Memberships: Add “View Subscription” Action to My Memberships

Here’s a quick question we’d gotten in a support thread: How can I add a link to “Cancel” a membership with it’s subscription to the “My Memberships” table? Unfortunately, adding a link to cancel both a membership + it’s associated subscription isn’t really straight-forward — this is why the “cancel” action is removed in the first place when a memberships is tied to a subscription. This way, cancelling the billing record is the only way…

WooCommerce Development March 9, 2017

Adding WooCommerce Memberships Restriction Notice Merge Tags

We got an interesting question this week from a developer: Is there a way to show Membership Plan Names in a “content restricted” notice instead of products to buy? In this case, the site wasn’t selling Memberships, but rather taking applications for them, so the plan names made more sense. This question can show us a couple interesting concepts today to look at: (1) creating a helper method to get plans that restrict a product,…

Tutorials WooCommerce Development February 1, 2017

Automatically Link WooCommerce Orders at Customer Registration

We got an question from Rob in our comments section on our post about adding registration prompts to WooCommerce emails that makes for an interesting tutorial. To summary Rob’s question: How would you reconcile a previous order when a guest user registers? In other words: say I buy from your store and use my email (test@test.com) at checkout. I then get this lovely email with a registration prompt, so I go and register. The problem…

Tutorials WooCommerce Development December 21, 2016

Screen ID checks with WordPress Submenu Pages

Chances are if you’ve read our series on adding plugin settings to WooCommerce, you’re using an existing WooCommerce settings page or new settings tab to add any required configuration options for your plugin. If you have a more complex plugin who’s data will be accessed very often (such as Memberships or Subscriptions), you may even be adding a new submenu with a custom settings or usage page for your plugin. However, we’ve run into any…

Tips & How To Tutorials WordPress Development December 13, 2016