How to Remove Phone Number Field From Checkout WooCommerce

The WooCommerce checkout page is an important page, as it is the last chance you have to impress your customers. Therefore, you should ensure that the checkout process should not take long to complete. This means that you have to remove the fields that you do not use. I recommend safely modifying this page by using a child theme to ensure that you do not break down your site.

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WooCommerce Remove Phone Number Field From Checkout

In this post, we will simplify the checkout page by removing the phone number field. For example, if you sell low-cost products, you do not need to have this field on the checkout page

Here are the steps you need to follow:

Log into your WordPress site and access the dashboard as the admin user
From the dashboard menu, click on the Appearance Menu > Theme Editor Menu. When the theme editor page is opened, look for the theme functions file with the extension functions.php.
Open this functions file to add the function to remove the phone number field on the WooCommerce checkout page:

/**

 * Remove the Phone number checkout field

 */

function njengah_remove_checkout_fields( $fields ) {

            unset( $fields['billing']['billing_phone'] );

            return $fields;

}

add_filter( 'woocommerce_checkout_fields', 'njengah_remove_checkout_fields' );

This is the outcome:

Conclusion

In this brief post, you have seen how it is easy to remove the phone number field from the WooCommerce checkout page. In theory, you can remove all the checkout fields without issues in the WooCommerce Core. However, you need to note that some plugins could be counting on some fields to be available, and they will throw an error if the fields are removed.

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How to Remove Phone Number Field From Checkout WooCommerce

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