How Do I Use WooCommerce Hooks?

If you’re new to WooCommerce, you might be wondering how to use its various hooks. Hooks are essentially little bits of code that let you customize your WooCommerce store without having to edit the core WooCommerce code. In this article, we’ll show you how to use WooCommerce hooks to customize your store.

There are two types of hooks in WooCommerce: actions and filters. Actions let you add or remove code from specific points in the WooCommerce codebase, while filters let you modify existing code. In most cases, you’ll want to use an action hook to add your own code.

To use an action hook, you’ll first need to add some code to your child theme’s functions.php file. (If you’re not sure what a child theme is, or how to create one, check out our guide on the subject.) Then, you can simply copy and paste the following code into your functions.php file:

function my_custom_function() {
 // Code goes here
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_after_single_product', 'my_custom_function' );

In the above example, we’ve created a function called my_custom_function(). This is where we’ll put our custom code.

The second line of code tells WooCommerce when to run our function. In this case, it will run after the single product page has loaded.

You can also specify multipleaction hooks for your function. For example, the following code would cause our function to run on both the single product page and the product archive page:

add_action( 'woocommerce_after_single_product', 'my_custom_function' );
add_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop', 'my_custom_function' );

If you want to learn more about action hooks, check out our article on the subject.