From Functions to Plugins: Packaging Your Woo Customizations the Right Way

Over the last few sessions, we’ve created custom checkout fields, displayed the data in the admin and customer areas, and even built reports to make that data useful. Now, it’s time to take all that work and wrap it up neatly into a custom plugin — so your code is portable, protected from theme updates, and easy to manage across projects.

In this session, we’ll walk through:

• How to create your own plugin folder and header file
• Moving your existing Woo custom field code from `functions.php` into a plugin
• Best practices for organizing hooks, naming conventions, and keeping your plugin future-proof
• Tips for versioning, maintenance, and safely testing your code

By the end, you’ll have a fully functional plugin version of everything we’ve built — ready to activate, deactivate, and reuse across multiple sites.

This session is perfect for anyone who’s been customizing Woo and is ready to move from snippets to structure.

🧩 Intermediate-level session. Previous attendance or familiarity with Woo checkout customization is recommended but not required.