---
title: "Local Events for WooCommerce: for developers"
description: "The filters and the action of WXP Local Events for WooCommerce: how long seats are held, the coupon panel and noindex for the ticket product."
url: "https://wxpplugins.com/docs/local-events-for-woocommerce-for-developers/"
updated: "2026-11-03"
category: WXP Local Events / Local Events for WooCommerce / For developers
---

# Local Events for WooCommerce: for developers

WXP Local Events for WooCommerce offers two filters and one action. All names start with `wxp_local_events_woocommerce_`. The hooks of WXP Local Events itself are in [Filter- and action hooks](/docs/wxp-local-events-hooks/).

## Overview

| Hook | Type | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `wxp_local_events_woocommerce_hold_minutes` | Filter | Changes how long a reservation holds its seats while it waits for the payment. |
| `wxp_local_events_woocommerce_open_coupon` | Filter | Decides whether the coupon panel of the cart and block checkout is opened by default for a cart with tickets. |
| `wxp_local_events_woocommerce_noindex` | Action | Fires when a ticket product is marked noindex, so other code can do the same for more SEO plugins. |

## How to use a hook

A **filter** receives a value, can change it and must return it. An **action** tells you that something happened, and returns nothing. Add your code to the `functions.php` of your child theme, or to a small plugin of your own.

## `wxp_local_events_woocommerce_hold_minutes`

**Filter.** By default the time is the setting **Hold stock (minutes)** of WooCommerce, or 60 minutes when that is empty. The result is never lower than 5 minutes.

| Argument | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `$minutes` | int | Minutes. |

**Return:** the number of minutes.

```
add_filter( 'wxp_local_events_woocommerce_hold_minutes', function ( $minutes ) {
    return 30; // Hold seats for half an hour.
} );
```

## `wxp_local_events_woocommerce_open_coupon`

**Filter.** The coupon field ("Add coupons") of the block checkout and the cart is opened by default for a cart with tickets, when coupons are enabled in WooCommerce. Return `false` to keep it closed.

| Argument | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `$open` | bool | `true` by default. |

**Return:** `true` or `false`.

```
add_filter( 'wxp_local_events_woocommerce_open_coupon', '__return_false' );
```

## `wxp_local_events_woocommerce_noindex`

**Action.** The ticket product of an event is kept out of the search results. For Rank Math the add-on sets the robots meta itself. For other SEO plugins, use this action to set noindex on the product.

| Argument | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `$product_id` | int | The id of the ticket product. |

## Good to know

- **Product type:** the hidden product has the type `event_ticket`. There is one product per event; the date of the occurrence travels with the cart line.
- **Expiry job:** unpaid reservations are released by a job on the schedule `wxp_le_woo_quarter_hour` (every 15 minutes), hook `wxp_local_events_woocommerce_expire`.
- **SEO:** Yoast SEO and All in One SEO support for noindex follows later; until then use the action above.