{"id":7885,"date":"2023-01-30T06:39:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T01:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wponlinesupport.com\/wordpress-services\/?p=7885"},"modified":"2023-06-01T18:14:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T12:44:26","slug":"how-to-develop-woocommerce-add-on-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wponlinesupport.com\/wordpress-services\/how-to-develop-woocommerce-add-on-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to develop WooCommerce add on plugin ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s for those who own an e-commerce website, want to make it more functional, thinking of activating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wponlinesupport.com\/wordpress-services\/woocommerce-plugin-development\/\" class=\"ek-link\">WooCommerce plugin development<\/a>, and want to be different and unique from their competitors, then this is for You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WooCommerce has been the popular platform for customizing and developing your e-commerce website. The major benefit of WooCommerce is to make your websites more functioning and to give your website a personal touch. The one who is familiar with the WordPress plugin developments can easily modify &amp; develop a WooCommerce plugin as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WooCommerce plugin aims at extending the functionality of WordPress plugin. By solving the issues of payment gateway, products displayed in front, building landing pages and adding specific fields for products etc. makes the owner \u2018own\u2019 their website in a more personalized manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although, you can always set up your website on WooCommerce plugin for free but setting it up itself is an adventurous ride. It might not be easy for the ones who don\u2019t know much about WordPress plugin development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So to begin this journey, getting your hands on some basics of WordPress functions, codings, and plugins will be helpful for you. Because some technical skills would be necessary for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For example, you must be familiar with<\/strong>:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Front end:<\/strong> HTML, JavaScript, CSS<br><strong>Back end:<\/strong>  SQL &amp; PHP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong> WordPress plugin vs WooCommerce plugin<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Using the WordPress platform, you may create, maintain, and own a website. This might be a CV or portfolio website, a business website, a blog, an online store, or anything else. To run these websites, you can purchase WordPress hosting packages from us, and we will utilize extra programs, plugins, and third-party programs to increase the website&#8217;s capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WooCommerce, on the other hand, enables you to personalize an online store or e-commerce website. It comes with its own plugins that let you use your WordPress-based WooCommerce online store to sell both digital and physical goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, let\u2019s dive right into the process of WooCommerce add-on plugin development-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before starting this journey, you\u2019ll be seeing some common steps or process of the development similar to the WordPress plugin development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"single-list\">\n\t<li><a class=\"wpos-scroll\" href=\"#active-wc\">Install and activate your WooCommerce<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li><a class=\"wpos-scroll\" href=\"#naming-plugin\">Naming your plugins<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li><a class=\"wpos-scroll\" href=\"#version-wc\">Installing version of WooCommerce<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li><a class=\"wpos-scroll\" href=\"#product-set\">Set up the Products<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li><a class=\"wpos-scroll\" href=\"#utilize-coupon\">Utilize Coupons<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li><a class=\"wpos-scroll\" href=\"#hire-expert\">Hire a WooCommerce expert<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"active-wc\"><strong>Step 1 &#8211; Install and activate your WooCommerce<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To ensure that you are creating only the WooCommerce plugin development or extension on your website, you must wrap up your PHP class around some snippets. The PHP contains your important metadata. It is considered as the primary entry point between the extension and WordPress plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"naming-plugin\"><strong>Step 2 &#8211; Naming your plugins<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This step is very necessary and it deals with naming your plugins, files, and folders. As it is going to be the process common between the WooCommerce plugin and WordPress plugin, you must ensure the difference between the files, plugins, folders, classes, functions, variables, and themes. And to avoid any confusion you can always name it with some prefixes which makes it easy for you to identify and differentiate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"version-wc\"><strong>Step 3 &#8211; Installing version of WooCommerce<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Though, it\u2019s not required to install a developed version of WooCommerce Blocks. But it will let you use the most recent features of a stand-alone feature-plugin. As a result, you can easily determine whether your plugin is compatible with WooCommerce or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Execute these commands:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Activate The Necessary Version Of NODE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Running the use command while moving between multiple directories inside the same shell will ensure that the Node is activated with the appropriate version.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Put the dependencies in place<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The following command should be used to set up dependencies:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Installing composer and node<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create The Assets<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To compile and minify the CSS and JavaScript simultaneously from the assets directory, issue this following command.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The above given extension siblings need to be installed with the WooCommerce and further you can start setting up your WooCommerce store by uploading the sample products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"product-set\"><strong>Step 4 &#8211; Set up the product<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Capturing and applying discounts to products is one of the crucial components of building a WooCommerce plugin from the beginning. I&#8217;ll explain to you how to apply discounts to products and how to collect discounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You must take two crucial steps in order to capture product discounts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Show Discount:<\/strong> The users will see the discount linked to the product when they perform this action.<br><strong>Save Discount:<\/strong> The user whose custom profile value the discount is being applied to will have its value saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"utilize-coupon\"><strong>Step 5 &#8211; Utilize Coupons<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Once your plugin has recorded the discounts, it must apply them to the products and lower the price by a particular, preset percentage or number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"hire-expert\"><strong>Step 6 &#8211; Hire a WooCommerce expert<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As I mentioned in the beginning of this blog, before diving into setting up your WooCommerce plugin, you must know the basics of WordPress plugin as well. But if the basics are not known, then you can end up disrupting your own website and instead of making it more functional, you can end up making it more dysfunctional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WooCommerce plugin development experts are familiar with the techniques involved in the process. Hence, we can make it easier for you to save your time, money and energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also requires other detailed technical activities, which one might ignore even when you know about the basics. But clearly, only knowing the basics is not enough in this. One can become the expert, or one can hire the expert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can give yourself time to go through it all, but till that time an expert can quickly set up your plugin without any blunders, and you are good to go. The choice is up to you, so choose wisely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You must be thinking of why to hire a WooCommerce expert, let me give you the reasons-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>You will get enhanced security<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It\u2019s cost-effective<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are highly- communicable<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You will get experts assistance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can save your time, money and energy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We got to know about developing the WooCommerce plugin from the above-given steps. Lack of in-house knowledge and time may make it difficult for small and medium-sized businesses to build a WooCommerce plugin from the beginning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may always employ a trusted partner like us to handle it for you and after careful evaluation, you can decide that you don&#8217;t want to dive into the creation of the plugin yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add such profitable customization and modification options through your WooCommerce plugin development. 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