woocommerce rupee symbol not showing

WooCommerce Rupee Symbol Not Showing

WooCommerce Rupee Symbol Not Showing

If WooCommerce Rupee Symbol Not Showing on your WordPress site then here is one great solution. I see a lot of websites facing this issue. The could be many reasons for the new Indian rupee symbol not showing in WooCommerce sites. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to fix this issue so do not skip reading any part of this article. You might also watch the below video tutorial for a step by step and easy instructions:

if you are seeing a box shape instead of the the new Indian rupee currency symbol just like this one then it means that you are also probably facing the same problem.

indian rupee symbol not showing in woocommerce

This issue could be caused due to several reasons. whatever the reason may be, this is surely going to be a great solution.

First login to your WordPress dashboard, Then go to plugins and click on Add New button as shown below:

plugin for adding code in wordpress

Then search for code snippets, an then install and activate code snippets plugin as shown.

code snippets pro

Using this plugin you can securely add PHP code to the functions.php file. Now you will need to add 2 code snippets.

  1. The first code should be added to the head section of your website
  2. and the second code should be added to the functions.php file

Code Snippet 1:

add_action( 'wp_head', function () { ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
<?php } );

Code Snippet 2:

/**
 * Custom currency and currency symbol
 */
add_filter( 'woocommerce_currencies', 'add_my_currency' );

function add_my_currency( $currencies ) {
     $currencies['Rupee'] = __( 'Rupee Currency', 'woocommerce' );
     return $currencies;
}

add_filter('woocommerce_currency_symbol', 'add_my_currency_symbol', 10, 2);

function add_my_currency_symbol( $currency_symbol, $currency ) {
     switch( $currency ) {
          case 'Rupee': $currency_symbol = ''; break;
     }
     return $currency_symbol;
}

Now copy the first code, Go to snippets in your wordpress dashboard and click on All Snippets. Among the sample code snippets, edit the example css snippet as shown in the image below:

WordPress code snippets plugin

rupee symbol plugin wordpress

Now delete the sample code and paste the copied code. Then select, only run on site front-end option, since this code needs to be run only in the head section of your site.

indian currency rupee symbol for woocommerce

Then click on save changes and then click on Activate.

rupee symbol woocommerce

Now copy the second code snippet, go to snippets in your WordPress dashboard and click on the Add New button as shown in the image below:

code snippets plugin

Type a name for the code snippet, for example you can name it as Rupee Currency, Now paste the copied code as shown in the image below:

new rupee symbol not showing in woocommerce

Then select run snippet everywhere option, since this code is meant to display the new Indian Rupee Currency symbol and it needs to run on every part of the website. Then click on save changes and then click on activate.

new rupee symbol not showing in chrome

Now we have successfully added the required code snippets.

The last and final step is to set this custom currency we just created in the WooCommerce settings. To do that go to WooCommerce and click on Settings as shown in the image below:

woocommerce settings

In the general tab scroll down, select the country as India and select your state as shown in the image below:

Indian Rupee Symbol WordPress

Now go a little bit down, click the currency drop-down, scroll to the end of the list, and select the newly created Indian Rupee currency symbol. Then click on the Save Changes button.

Indian Rupee Symbol for Woocommerce

Now if you have a look at the shop page of the website, you should see the empty box shape being replaced by the new Indian Rupee Currency symbol as shown in the image below:

rupee symbol plugin woocommerce

Ok readers try this option and let me know your thoughts in the comments. I hope that this artice on WooCommerce Rupee Symbol Not Showing is helpful. As always like and share this tutorial. More importantly do not forget to subscribe to my news letter. I shall meet you all soon with another new awesome topic. Until then its good bye from hbninfotech.com Thanks for reading this article.

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himaghiri

Himaghiri Thanayan.N is the founder of HBN Infotech. He has great dreams and passion for Graphic Design, Web Design, CAD Design, Arts & Crafts, Science & Information Technology and Article Writing.

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