Change the Default WooCommerce Product Placeholder Permanently

Just a reminder that this can be set programatically. Once this is set, clients can’t change this in the WooCommerce settings either. This is a permanent solution for preventing someone or an update, from modifying the settings.

I recommend adding this as a plugin and not the the functions.php, as it will get overwritten with every theme update.

<!--?php &lt;br ?-->
/*
* Plugin Name:       WooPlaceholder
* Description:       WooPlaceholder
* Version:           1.00
* Requires PHP:      7.4
* Author:            Wally David
* Text Domain:       wc-woo-placeholder-default
*/

add_filter(‘woocommerce_placeholder_img_src’, ‘custom_woocommerce_placeholder_img_src’);

function custom_woocommerce_placeholder_img_src( $src ) {
$upload_dir = wp_upload_dir();
$uploads = untrailingslashit( $upload_dir[‘baseurl’] );
// replace with path to your image
$src = $uploads . ‘/2012/07/thumb1.jpg’;

return $src;
}

Source “WooCommerce“