WooCommerce | Set billing field value

Question

I want to pre-populate the values for the checkout's billing fields to the DB stored values of the user before his first purchase.

I've tried the following code:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_checkout_fields' , function ( $fields ) {
    $fields['billing']['billing_first_name']['placeholder'] = 'First Name';
    $fields['billing']['billing_first_name']['default'] = wp_get_current_user()->user_firstname;
    return $fields;
});

I've read about this solution in an other post. Placeholder works great, but the value doesn't.

Also, the WooCommerce Doc (Lesson 1) doesn't say about anything the array value 'default'

Can you show more of the code you are using? – helgatheviking Oct 07 '16 at 21:18 — helgatheviking, Oct 07 '16 at 21:18
@helgatheviking I've just updated the post – Kode Bryant Oct 08 '16 at 08:04 — Kode Bryant, Oct 08 '16 at 08:04

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 08 '16 at 13:50

You're pretty close. This worked for me. I don't know if it was necessary, but I used a named function and only get the user_firstname property if the user exists.

add_filter( 'woocommerce_checkout_fields' , 'kia_checkout_field_defaults', 20 );
function kia_checkout_field_defaults( $fields ) {
    $user = wp_get_current_user();
    $first_name = $user ? $user->user_firstname : '';
    $fields['billing']['billing_first_name']['placeholder'] = 'First Name';
    $fields['billing']['billing_first_name']['default'] = $first_name;
    return $fields;
}

Thank you Helga, I've added priority 20 to my code and it worked! — Kode Bryant, Oct 09 '16 at 08:48

WooCommerce | Set billing field value

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