How does WooCommerce build custom query in WordPress?

How does WooCommerce build custom query in WordPress?

WooCommerce builds a custom query for products in its WC_Query class by hooking into the classic pre_get_posts hook and changing WordPress’s query parameters to get the desired products. WooCommerce then removes itself from the query afterwards.

What should the post parent be in WooCommerce?

Any grouped product (or other top-level, non-grouped product) will have 0 as a post parent. Therefore, we can set the query argument to require a post parent of 0 and effectively eliminate any grouped items. WooCommerce has a setting that allows you to hide all out of stock items from your store.

What do you need to know about WooCommerce binary?

WooCommerce doesn’t just include fields for a binary in-stock/not in-stock situation; there’s also another field, _stock, which stores the total available stock of a given item. Using this, we can set our code to display only products that have a certain amount of stock; for example, products that have more than 5 available:

When to use the sale _ price field in WooCommerce?

In WooCommerce, a sale_price field is responsible for defining the special discounted price; when the product is no longer discounted this field is empty. We can use this behavior to our advantage by adding a check that sees if the sale_price field has a value greater than or equal to zero to our parameters, like so:

Where do I Find my purchased products on WooCommerce?

When a WooCommerce customer is logged in, you might want to show the list of purchased products, for example in a custom “My Account” tab. I decided to code this as a shortcode, so that you can use the snippet anywhere in your WooCommerce templates, as long as the user is logged in and as long as it has processing or completed orders.

Where is the action hook in WooCommerce code?

Like most WooCommerce code there is a convenient action hook right in the middle of the product_query() method which will allow us to hook in and make whatever changes we might like to the product query.

When to use WC _ get _ products in WooCommerce?

People should start using wc_get_products because woocommerce said this is the standard way of retrieving product. wc_get_products has an argument featured which just needs to be set to true. So the code is simply below. See full post here: https://jameshwartlopez.com/plugin/get-featured-products-of-a-category/

How to display product prices on WooCommerce website?

Something to bear in mind when using this method is that depending on whether the product is discounted or not this code could return several different HTML structures. We might also want to use a different method for displaying prices, such as displaying a price with or without tax.