Customer Registration Archives

WooCommerce: Delete Customer After a Failed (Spam) Order

Once again, I’m trying to find WooCommerce anti-spam workarounds to avoid manual admin work like receiving hundreds of emails, deleting hundreds of fake orders and fake WordPress users.

In today’s “episode” I will try to clean the WordPress User database table after a failed order, because I’m really angry when “17PmU3MmKZS9ZAy7 17PmU3MmKZS9ZAy7” manages to register an account on Business Bloomer after a carding attack!

Please test this snippet on a dev/staging environment and not directly on the live site. Deleting a WordPress user is never a good idea, so you need to make sure everything is working as it should. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Checkout Anti-Spam Honeypot

Here’s my second attempt to fight against WooCommerce spam, without installing a captcha plugin. A few posts ago I covered the My Account user registration spam, so today I want to tackle the WooCommerce Checkout, and try to “trick” spam bots.

Of course, this is a workaround and smart bots may understand you’re tricking them. So, feel free to test this first and let me know if it stops spam orders, card testing attacks, and tons of fake user registrations.

Same as the other post, I will be adding a custom hidden checkout field with an empty value. This won’t be visible to the customer, but will be to spam bots, which will try to post a value. My validation code will, however, generate an error if the custom field posts a value, and therefore should prevent most spam bots from going through.

Let me know if it works!

WooCommerce: My Account Registration Anti-Spam Honeypot

Here’s my personal attempt to fight against the WooCommerce My Account Page registration spam, without installing yet another captcha plugin.

I’m pretty sure this solution is not perfect, because spam bots are very “smart”, but it can help prevent most fake registrations.

The way I built it, is by adding a custom input field to the My Account Register form with an empty value. Hidden via CSS, this is not visible to the user – but it is visible to spam bots, which will try to post a value. The trick here is the validation check; an error will be generated if the input has a value, and therefore should prevent most fake registration to go through.

Take a look at the code, test it, and enjoy!

WooCommerce: Custom Registration Redirect @ My Account

The WooCommerce My Account register form (when enabled) redirects to… itself once a WooCommerce customer registers. So, what if you want to redirect newly registered users to another page?

Also, when you have a custom Registration page, you may need to redirect users to the… My Account page!

Either way, here’s how to change the default redirect behavior. Enjoy!

WooCommerce B2B: How to Set Up a Wholesale Store

The ecommerce sector is seeing incredible growth, year after year, with no foreseeable end in sight. The same is true for B2B ecommerce, yet there aren’t many good platform choices available for small-to-medium businesses that want to sell wholesale. There are several SaaS solutions on the market, but these are costly, closed-source, and mostly oriented towards larger businesses.

If you are a business owner or developer, WooCommerce is a solution that’s free, versatile and powerful.

WooCommerce: File Upload @ My Account Registration Form

You can add first and last name to the WooCommerce registration form (easy, no?). Or maybe a custom radio field. And why not, a file upload input – which is able to load an image from the user’s browser, assign it to the form, and add the image to “Media” in your WordPress install.

And today we’ll see exactly that. Unfortunately the “woocommerce_form_field” function does not allow (yet, maybe) to generate file input fields, so we’ll just use basic HTML. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Deny Automatic Login Upon Registration @ My Account

If you’ve enabled customer registration on the My Account page, you will know that a new user is automatically logged in as soon as they successfully register.

This is great – however in certain cases it could be “dangerous” (for example, if you need to manually approve each user).

As I was searching through the WooCommerce plugin code, I found a great action filter that can immediately stop this from happening – I love one-liners! So, here’s the quick fix.

WooCommerce: Separate Login, Registration, My Account Pages

There are times when you need to send logged out customers to a Login page and unregistered customers to a standalone Register page.

As you know, the WooCommerce My Account page, which contains the [woocommerce_my_account] shortcode, has both Login and Registration forms when registration is enabled on the My Account settings.

This is not always a good idea, mostly when you use landing pages or sales pages with a specific goal e.g. user registration.

Clearly, when this happens, you don’t want to have a login form there as well. My solution provides two new shortcodes, one for the login form and one for the register form, as well as a complete guide to set the whole process up. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Change User Role for New Customers

If you don’t want to assign the WooCommerce user role “customer” to new… customers, there is simple PHP that can be added to your functions.php to achieve this. Enjoy!