I’m building a website with the “Neighborhood” Theme and WooCommerce. The site is quite large and is heavily customized and I have to set dozens of divs to not display or edit the text, which I’m using a large translation function for that uses multiple switch statements. As well as hooks for editing multiple woocommerce buttons. So my question is, is it better in regards to performance to hide all of these divs and use the function to edit text and redirections, or should I override multiple template files in woocommerce to make these changes?
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The templates are, by definition, the mechanism to define how a certain woocommerce page would look, and child themes are, by definition, the way you change a behavior of a theme beyond what it allows for in the Admin UI.
Overriding the templates in a child theme is the best practice. (Bear in mind that this means you may have to come back and update the template when Woocommerce updates their templates.)
Also, changing the content in PHP is usually cheaper than letting the default PHP run then changing the content in the browser, because it duplicates work.