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Welcome back to the channel. Now one of the biggest plugins that we use in Word Press is actually called WooCommerce, and WooCommerce provides payments for all countries globally, but I was looking through the number of currencies that are available in WooCommerce and I realized that we have over 180 currencies that are recognized as legal tender, but in WooCommerce we had far less than that available. And I decided to check for let's see the first country or state that we would look at which is Abkhazia which has a Russian ruble with RUB, and when I quickly checked for this in my settings as I was installing, or even trying to change the settings in the back end I realized that this is not available. So how do you make this currency available for your WooCommerce shop if you are from Abkhazia? I'm going to show you how to do it in very simple steps, in a few lines of code you should be able to do this even if you're not a programmer. I would advise in most cases for you to do this in a plugin, so you would go to your plugins folder, your website and go into the plugins folder which is found in the WP content, open up a new folder and inside that folder, put in a new file that has a similar name to your plugin. If you choose not to do a plug-in, you can just paste the code that we shall write, and drop it inside your functions.php that's usually part of your themes folder. So if you go in your WP content and go to themes, you can choose your current theme and then just go into this file which is called functions.php, and then at the end of the file you just simply paste your code and it will run. So let's jump into the code to see how that works. I have dumped my plug-in folder from here into my vs code editor, I'm going to start up a plug-in quickly and I have a little snippet to help me do this, so we need to add the plug-in name which will be our currencies of the world, let's think that is so, so we'll give it author name, our author URI add currencies of the world, and then we shall have a version, that's okay, and then I'll just change the license to something GPL2, and then we can just have this prefixed as our currencies of the world as that, so we could have it more elaborate but I'll just use that for now. So this is the real meat of the problem, so when you go into your editor to start adding code, first of all you need to just add a filter, a filter is basically a function hook in WordPress that allows you to tap into particular contents that's readily available, and you just add your own or you remove what is already existing. So WooCommerce has some filters itself, for example this is WooCommerce currencies which is the hook that we'll use, and then we are going to add on our own function that I'll call "techiepress add world currencies", so I'm going to create some little real estate here, so I'll just minimize that, and then I'll cut this, put this back here. So we get this what we have right now, and then we run it into a function, and the function will be with that name, and we'll open with our curly brackets. So the next thing that we need to do here is, this function it comes with a couple of arguments that are with it. What are these? we just add currencies, dollar currencies in here and this is an argument we get, so we'll have to return this at the end of the day, so we add return and then currencies even without modifying it we need to return it at the end of that day, so that we just pass what was originally there. Now this is the place where we add our currency of Abkhazia. Now we get our currencies right here, and then we'll have square brackets and inside it we are going to add the small RUB for the Russian kopek, this is the ISO code, so we use the ISO code and get the fractional unit. So that's what we're going to use. Now we'll have the RUB in there, then we're going to say it is equal to, then we use these underscores, there are two underscores here that will help us translate our plug-in into several languages of the world. So we'll have this and then we'll just call this the Abkhazia kopek, that's what we'll have there, and then we're going to bring in our text domain which we had here, copy and paste it, we need to add our semicolon at the end here. So with this alone we've been able to add that currency inside our WooCommerce. So what I'm going to do is come back to my plugins section here, in the administration area of WordPress I'll come back to the plugins, and then what I'm going to do is activate our currencies of the world plug-in. After activating this I'll give this a little reload, and then I'm going to come here and as I search for Abkhazia you realize that we have the kopek here and even the symbol is available, initially we didn't have it but now we have it as part of our currencies that are available. So you can use this to make available the currency, you can use this as you're making your own custom payment gateway, this is one of those codes that you will need to make sure that your currency is available. When we look at our currency it's now available, but it has its own unique sign here that is being picked from the RUB, this is a common currency because it's a Russian currency. So I'm going to try to assume if we had ARUB as our currency here, so I'll reload this here, and then let's see how we add Abkhazia and if you look at it you actually see that it is empty it doesn't have a currency symbol inside it. Now what I'm going to do is add a new function down here, that will allow us to actually add our currency symbol there, and it's very very simple, so we essentially have another filter which is called WooCommerce currency, now this time it will be in singular and we'll add an underscore and call it for symbol. So we're going to also add another extension to our new function and we'll call it "techiepress add world currency symbol", so I'll copy this, come down here to function, add it and then we'll open our brackets to work with this. Now this particular function has two arguments that do come with it, so we have what we call the currency_symbol, and then it's also going to come with the currency argument as well. So we have two arguments coming in here. So at the end of our function we are going to return the currency symbol, we are going to use a switch statement which basically looks for the currency that we have passed in here, singular currency, and then after getting this currency we're going to do a check and we're going to say if the case for this currency, if you remember we passed currencies in this function here and we had ARUB as the identifier of our Abkhazia kopek in here, so we're going to use it here in our case and say if we are looking at that particular currency, then what we're going to do is we're going to have the currency symbol and we're going to say it's going to equal to AR if that's what we've chosen, and we are going to actually break this, so we'll add break at the end of the day. So let me just push these under, so since we are passing two arguments here, I'm going to come back to this filter here and add that we have a priority of 10 and we're going to pass 2 arguments in here. Now when I save this, come back to our WooCommerce settings, we're going to come back and we'll see that our currency that we saved has a new AR currency symbol right here. Thank you for watching the video if you enjoyed it give it a thumbs up, and consider subscribing because we'll have new and exciting snippets that you can use for your WooCommerce store. Thank you for watching and good bye.