Need help choosing hook for cart counter

First, our domain is test.druthers.ca (checkout page.)

Here’s the status report from WooCommerce:

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I’ve used the following code to create a cart items counter for display on the front-end:

//Visually provide the cart total from within the nav manu item function druthers_cart_counter() { if (is_single() || is_page() || (is_product() && !is_admin()) || (is_shop() && !is_admin())) { global $woocommerce; $cartcount = $woocommerce->cart->get_cart_contents_count(); echo '<span id="druthers-cart-count" style="display:none;">'.$cartcount.'</span>'; } } add_action('wp', 'druthers_cart_counter', 99 );

I’ve been advised that wp was a very poor choice of hook, as it has broken the checkout process (payment interface is grayed out.)

I was told to use a woocommerce specific hook – but after skimming the list at https://woocommerce.github.io/code-reference/hooks/hooks.html I have to say I’m overwhelmed, there is such a plethora of options.

Any pointers would be invaluable, thanks for reading.

• This topic was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by adamLaughlin. Reason: better code display, blocks not helpful

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