You Shouldn't Need a Dev for a 'Hide Price Until Logged In' Toggle
Somewhere along the way, WordPress forgot who it was for.
What used to be a lean publishing platform has become a bloated mess of conditional logic, over-engineered plugins, and endless "tutorials" that read like developer onboarding docs.
Here's a perfect example:
Hiding product prices unless the user is logged in.
- This is not a novel idea.
- This is not enterprise logic.
- This is a toggle.
And yet - if you try to do this today?
You'll be told to:
- Add custom PHP to your theme
- Use a "code snippet" plugin and pray you don't white screen
- Install a 90-feature plugin with a UI that looks like a cPanel reboot
- Or hire a dev to write what should be one damn checkbox
That's why I built Plugin Pal.
To stop this nonsense.
From Idea to Plugin, No Dev Required
Plugin Pal takes everyday WordPress tasks like this - stuff that should be easy - and turns them into simple, fill-in-the-blank prompts.
You write what you want:
"Hide product prices unless user is logged in. It should be hidden from single products, archives and the shop page."
Plugin Pal builds the plugin.
Complete. Clean. Yours.
Your idea, made real.
PLUGIN EXAMPLE: I used Plugin Pal to build this plugin using the example text from above (get it here)
Why This Matters
If you're running a WooCommerce store, you're already doing enough.
You shouldn't be grepping Stack Overflow at midnight for a half-working code snippet.
You shouldn't be bribing your dev for a 5-minute change that takes 3 days.
You shouldn't be duct-taping together 3 plugins that all step on each other's hooks.
You should be able to say what you want.
And get it - Fast.
It's Not Just This One Feature
Plugin Pal isn't a plugin.
It's a plugin factory.
- Want a "hide price until login" toggle? Easy.
- Want a "limit checkout by user role"? Go for it.
- Want a "minimum cart total by category"? Done.
You prompt it, Plugin Pal builds it, and you own it.
I'll leave you with this
WordPress should feel empowering again.
And if it doesn't?
Maybe it's time you built your own tools - without waiting on anyone.
Because sometimes a toggle should just be a toggle.