Customizable Products on WordPress

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    simonjamesmatthews · Member ·

    I am designing a website where users can customize a product before purchasing. Think moonpig. I have the customization process coded nicely in PHP outside of WordPress and is working fine. I will be using a PHP snippet plugin to add this code to a WordPress website that has Woocommerce installed. But I don’t know how it’s all going to work together. I need the customer to be able to customize the product before it gets added to the cart. Is there an option for this in Woocommerce or a plugin that will allow me to do it? Or some other way through coding? Also, is this the best place to ask this question? Thanks.

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    Hi!

    These aren’t the best forums for WooCommerce developer questions, but there is a helpful forum here:
    https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerce

    If you are wondering if one of these extensions will work for you (Product Add-Ons is one popular option for customizations), you can contact WooCommerce sales:
    https://woocommerce.com/search/?q=personalize&collections=product&page=1

    Does that help? By the way, these forums are mainly for sites hosted by WordPress.com:
    https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/#overview-of-options

    If you have questions about a site hosted with us, your plan likely has direct support, so you can reach out here: https://wordpress.com/help/contact

    Hoping this helps!

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    simonjamesmatthews · Member ·

    Thank you for the help! I wasn’t sure if I was asking in the right place. I use WordPress but I don’t have hosting with them. I didn’t realize they offered hosting actually. I might look into that as I am looking to change my hosting provider. Thank you for helping me out though, I’ll take a look at the extensions you suggested!

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    No problem at all.

    FWIW, Right now we basically just have free hosting and our managed plan. We take care of updates and security on both, and Pro comes with direct WordPress support.

    Let us know if you have questions about that.

    And really, the WooCommerce sales team tends to stay on top of the latest and greatest extensions out there, and I’m sure they can point you in the right direction. But, last time I asked about customizing products, that’s the one they sent me :D

    Hoping it helps!

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    simonjamesmatthews · Member ·

    Thanks again.

    I’ve had some success today whilst pottering around. I managed to add my own code to the Weecommerce single-product.php page that displays a customize button on the product page right beneath the price (or wherever I want it) and will then redirect to my customize page after clicking. I also use the SKU number to identify which particular item/card is to be customized, so it opens the correct item. It seems to work. For now I’ve added the code directly to the Weecommerce pages on a test site but when I do it for real it will be in a child theme I suppose.

    Happy! :-)

  • staff-sheva · Staff ·

    Hi @simonjamesmatthews,

    Yes, using a child theme is better than editing core WooCommerce files. While this might work well in a test environment, anytime the plugin updates, your changes would be overwritten when the updated plugin is installed.

    You can learn more about child themes here: https://wordpress.com/support/themes/child-themes/

    Hope that helps.

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