Overview
WooCommerece checkout is one of the most important parts of the WooCommerece website and everyone wants as easy checkout as they can get. We also sometimes need some specific data from users before the checkout and then we need a custom checkout field. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how we can customize and edit our WooCommerce checkout page.
There are many plugins available on WordPress to customize the checkout page of our WooComerece website. You can use any most of them offer similar features and have almost identical implementation methods.
We will use Checkout Field Editor and to get the plugin, go to WordPress plugin “Add New” and search for WooCommerce checkout editor you will see the plugin as shown in the image above. Install and Activate the plugin. Checkout Filed Editor is the most downloaded checkout editing plugin available in the WordPress plugins section. It has more than 300k active Installations.
Now in the WordPress WooCommerce section, you will see the “Checkout Form”. Click on it and the checkout form options setting will open.
From here you can edit every single field of your checkout form, you can add or delete fields and mark any field as required so the user must fill that field before checkout. You can also add validation for fields to verify that the user has put the write data into the field.
To add or remove filed you can tick the field and perform an action from the top or bottom of the list. You can also enable or disable a field if you wanna hide something for a temporary time.
To edit any field click the “Edit” button right next to the field. From there you can make several changes to your current field. You can add placeholders, rename labels, put default values, and so on.
Similarly to add any field click on add and you can edit what you want to show there.
Now let’s add a new field, give users the option to add a gift message for their order.
To do that click on “Add filed”. In type select Textarea so the user can type proper message. Now, add a label and place holder for that field so the user gets a hint of what to fill there and other details and click on “Save & Close”.
Now a new field in your has been added successfully, now if you go to your checkout page you can see your new field. Similarly, you can add as many fields as you want to your checkout page.
Conclusion
Now you know how you can add or delete fields from your checkout page, and it is very easy to do so. Still, if you face any issues while doing this let me know in the comment below.