Best ways to customize Woo

Hi John,

The best solution would be to create a custom child-theme or apply the code overrides to a snippet plugin like Code Snippets:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/code-snippets/

Hope this helps!

John,

Thanks for your advice. BTW, may you please elaborate on “custom child-theme”?

I did create a child theme (storefront-child for storefront) which houses modifications of php files under storefront theme. Now, I like to do similar things to plugins (e.g. WooCommerce and its extensions). Can I?

I’ll give Code Snippet approach a try

Thanks again

John

Hi @zhuzh1

>may you please elaborate on “custom child-theme”?

Maybe the term “custom” was redundant but as long as you are using a child-theme you should have the best success with overrides as updates will not be applied to the files contained within that theme.

Hi @johndcoy,

How to deal with modified files in plugins?

I looked at Code Snippets plugin. It is a great tool for code snippets such as add_action(…). However, I have felt that it might not be much help if changes are to html files such as adding one row to an existing table. Am I right?

Thanks

Jz

Hi @johndcoy,

In the above, I was specifically referring modifications in email_order_details.php both under woocommerce and under woocommerce-product-vendors plugins: I felt that Code Snippets is probably not applicable, isn’t it?

Thanks

JohnZ

@zhuzh1
Hello
Changing email_order_details.php in child theme SHOULD override the plugin modifications. Just create the file: wp-content/themes/storefront-child/woocommerce/emails/admin-new-order.php

Hope it helps!

@wpriders

Just to confirm, do you mean to copy

~/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/templates/emails/email-order-details.php or
~/wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-product-vendors/templates/emails/email-order-details.php
to
~/wp-content/storefront-child/woocommerce/templates/emails/email-order-details.php or
~/wp-content/storefront-child/woocommerce-product-vendors/templates/emails/email-order-details.php

then modify it?

thanks

@wpriders

Just an update:

I moved email-order-details.php for Product Vendors plugin to a child theme’s directory
~/wp-content/storefront-child/woocommerce-product-vendors/templates/emails/ then made changes. In my test, woocommerce still picked up the one (email-order-details.php) in the original plugin directory, not the one in my child theme.

My thinking: without child theme, plugin files are all outside of the theme (I am storefront now). To move them inside my child theme, Should I follow some convention to structure directories for them to be picked up?

Thanks

John

Hi there John,

You were very close with your solution!! When copying the template file to your child theme, you would follow the same directory structure, but you would remove “templates”. So you would end up with:

storefront-child/woocommerce-product-vendors/emails/email-order-details.php

This is discussed in the documentation here (although for a different template file):
https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/productvendors-faq/#section-9

Hope this helps!!

Hi @zhuzh1

We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I hope you’ve got this one sorted now.

I’m going to mark this as resolved – if you have any further questions, you can start a new thread.

Thanks,