fran4444

I spent half a day searching for a solution to the above problem.

From what I gathered from various articles, Woo removed the connection/sync between WP-accounts and Woo-accounts. The thinking was/is, if I understand correctly, a WP-account is like an admin, blogger or a reader/commentator, whereas Woo-accounts are buyers and therefore require a separate partitioned setup.

So to solve the syncing of visitor info to an “account” is to use a “membership” type plugin.

(Make it so they can be defined within “groups” which maybe can be managed and tracked for sales data. ? – I’m thinking aloud, the above is my assessment of the possible reasons for the un-syncing)

Then my research discovered membership type plugins are massively complicated and usually cost a lot.

I only needed the snippet of code. Otherwise it’s back to searching for a plugin to define and manage Woo accounts.

Wish I could help, I’m in your shoes, wanting to make an ecommerce site not suck, instead be professional and very convenience for customers. They are very fickle and won’t stay to figure out why things don’t work; business is lost on simple details.

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It is cool!

Yes, did make this, put the address code snippet in and have it work error free (after turning off maintenance mode). It is independent of the theme; makes it an easy, safe experimental file.

No, CSS shouldn’t go in it at all. Custom CSS should go into a child style.css or if your theme provides one, their custom styles.css file.

Good luck. ??

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Here is a more current link of the same thing, but a bit more polished:

https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/what-why-and-how-tos-of-creating-a-site-specific-wordpress-plugin/

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Here is the link:

Creating a Site-Specific Snippets Plugin
https://ottopress.com/2011/creating-a-site-specific-snippets-plugin/

Make this above file, and make a child theme as well. Will save you headaches in the long term.

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*gack* Please don’t take my vernacular literally. Just started this project, learning WP and coding, four months ago. I’m a clueless newb! So do not understand the lingo well enough to answer definitively.

Going to find my notes on what I did to start out, but all the beginner guides said to make a child theme, so I did. And one had great instructions to create the extra child function.php file. But only the one. Got the links somewhere, took lots of notes to dig thorough, but will get back to you soon.

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Made a special child plugin version of the theme function.php which is where snippets of experimental code resides.

Do not remember the link to the instructions to creating the (child) function.php, though it is supposed to act the same as what you are doing, (inserting code into the theme function.php), except a little bit easier to manage. Meaning it can be turned on/off via the plugin settings if fatal errors result.

(Will see if I can find the instruction anyway for reference.)

As for the above code not working, it should unless something is interfering. Make sure you are testing with a live site; had issues with construction/maintenance mode active, the login/logout would reset.

Do not think the version of WC would make a difference, but then don’t know what all the changes are; documentation is slim.

I’m not having the same problems with downloads; files from the checkout account page transfer correctly. However my issue is with emails, they aren’t being sent at all, so haven’t been able to confirm their viability yet.
*off to fix Woo-email settings*

Found this snippet in a raw Google-search and threw it into my (child) function.php plugin which solved the problem. Might be a hazardous hack, but don’t know any better being a newbie to all this. But this code does what was needed, to at least populated the checkout fields of someone already logged in.
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// Auto Update Woocommerce billing and shipping name,email on profile update
add_filter( 'profile_update' , 'custom_update_checkout_fields', 10, 2 );
function custom_update_checkout_fields($user_id, $old_user_data ) {
 $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
 // Updating Billing info
 if($current_user->user_firstname != $current_user->billing_first_name)
 update_user_meta($user_id, 'billing_first_name', $current_user->user_firstname);
 if($current_user->user_lastname != $current_user->billing_last_name)
 update_user_meta($user_id, 'billing_last_name', $current_user->user_lastname);
 if($current_user->user_email != $current_user->billing_email)
 update_user_meta($user_id, 'billing_email', $current_user->user_email);
 // Updating Shipping info
 if($current_user->user_firstname != $current_user->shipping_first_name)
 update_user_meta($user_id, 'shipping_first_name', $current_user->user_firstname);
 if($current_user->user_lastname != $current_user->shipping_last_name)
 update_user_meta($user_id, 'shipping_last_name', $current_user->user_lastname);
 if($current_user->user_email != $current_user->shipping_email)
 update_user_meta($user_id, 'shipping_email', $current_user->user_email);
}

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It’s not always a matter of knowing your password, sometimes you just have “fat-fingers” or the cat ran over the keyboard, or the phone rings and, woops, the coffee spilled all over the place. Any number of life’s interruptions can make keyboard action very sloppy; we are taking about humans here, not robots. Any business or club that limits less than three attempts on their password, bet they lose their members real quick.

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Found a snippet that works!
(paste into custom css)

/*hide product page tab headers*/
.woocommerce .woocommerce_tabs .panel h2, .woocommerce .woocommerce-tabs .panel h2 {display:none !important}

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Thanks for the swift update.

Would you be able to provide a css snippet to hide/remove those headers title texts then? (Please explain-like-Im-five; newbie here :D)

(Not the top tab label text, the header text only)

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I too would like to know how to hide the “edit” button.

Found this tidbit below on StackOverflow, but don’t know how to implement it; no idea where, what file, what line, the code is supposed to be written to. (newbie here)

How to hide “Edit” option which comes from table plugin of wordpress?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21109799/how-to-hide-edit-option-which-comes-from-table-plugin-of-wordpress

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Thanks. Will report back after the upgrade and an overhaul of my site. (Host provider is doing an emergency migration of servers and things are down at the moment.)

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