By default, WooCommerce supports taking payments through popular payment processors like PayPal and Stripe, as well as taking cash on delivery, cheque or BACS. Just like WordPress, it’s functionality can be vastly extended through plugins. These include everything, from additional payment processors like Amazon and SagePay, shipping tools like UPS and USPS, additional functionality like lessons, customised items, subscriptions and appointment bookings.

As well as our documentation about the basics of WooCommerce, you can find out more about setting up WooCommerce in their own documentation.

WooCommerce in the theme

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You can add new products through Products → Add Product in the WordPress Administration Panel.

Products contain most of the same options as standard posts. You can read about these in the Add New Post chapter. Additionally, they contain post options specific to products.

Product Options

The Product Data meta box is where the majority of important data is added for your products.

General section

• SKU: Stock keep unit (SKU) tracks products. Must be unique and should be formatted so it does not match any post IDs. For example, post IDs are numbers so a SKU could be WS01. That could stand for WooShirt 01.
• Price
  • Regular Price: Item’s normal/regular price.
  • Sale Price: Item’s discounted price that can then be scheduled for certain date ranges.

Inventory section

The inventory section allows you to manage stock for the product individually and define whether to allow back orders and more. If stock management is disabled from the settings page, only the Manage stock? option is visible.

Ticking the Sold Individually checkbox limits the product to one per order.

Shipping section

• Weight: Weight of the item.
• Dimensions: Length, width and height for the item.
• Shipping Class: Shipping classes are used by certain shipping methods to group similar products.

Linked Products section

Using up-sells and cross-sells, you can cross promote your products. They can be added by searching for a particular product and selecting the product from the dropdown list. After adding, Linked Products are displayed in the input field.

Up-sells are displayed on the product details page. These are products that you may wish to encourage users to upgrade, based on the product they are currently viewing. For example, if the user is viewing the coffee product listing page, you may want to display tea kettles on that same page as an up-sell.

Cross-sells are products that are displayed with the cart and related to the user’s cart contents. As an example, if the user adds a Nintendo DS to their cart, you may want to suggest they purchase a spare stylus when they arrive at the cart page.

Grouping: Used to make a product part of a grouped product. More info in the Grouped Products chapter of the WooCommerce documentation.

Attributes section

On the Attributes tab, you can assign details to a product. You will see a select box containing global attribute sets you created (e.g., platform). More in the Managing Product Categories, Tags and Attributes chapter of the WooCommerce documentation.

Once you have chosen an attribute from the select box, click add and apply the terms attached to that attribute (e.g., Nintendo DS) to the product. You can hide the attribute on the frontend by leaving the Visible checkbox unticked.

Custom attributes can also be applied by choosing Custom product attribute from the select box. These are added at the product level and won’t be available in layered navigation or other products.

Advanced section

• Purchase note: Enter an optional note to send the customer after they purchase the product.
• Menu order: Custom ordering position for this item.
• Enable Reviews: Enable/Disable customers reviews for this item.

Excerpt

Add a short product description. This typically appears next to product imagery on the listing page, and the long description appears in the Product Description tab.

Taxonomies

On the right-hand side of the Add New Product panel, there are product categories in which you can place your product, similar to a standard WordPress post. You can also assign product tags in the same way.

Product images

You can add a main image and a gallery of images. More in the Adding product image and galleries chapter of the WooCommerce documentation.

Setting catalog visibility and feature status

In the Publish panel, you can set catalog visibility for your product.

• Catalog and search: Visible everywhere, shop pages, category pages and search results.
• Catalog: Visible in shop pages and category pages, but not search results.
• Search: Visible in search results, but not in the shop page or category pages.
• Hidden: Only visible on the single product page – not on any other pages.

You can also tick the Featured Product box, to make this product visible in areas where such products are displayed, such as widgets etc.

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Documents are a post type perfectly suited to displaying information about and letting your users download PDF files. This post type allows you to upload a file and add information about it, so your users can browse available books and documents on your site and download them.

The All Documents Screen

The All Documents screen inherits most of the features of the standard posts screen. You can edit, delete or view individual documents using the links under the document titles. You can select multiple documents for deletion and editing. A bulk edit feature allows you to change certain fields, en masse, for a group of documents. A handy in-line edit tool, called quick edit, allows you to update many fields for an individual document. Various search and filtering options allow you to find the document you want to edit or delete.

The Table of Documents

A table lists all of your documents. By default, the documents are listed with the newest document first, but they can also be sorted by title.

• [ ]: This checkbox, when checked, selects that particular document to be processed by a bulk action, such as edit or delete.
• Title: This is the document title displayed as a link. Click the title link to edit this document. Next to the title, if a document is of a Draft, Private, Pending, or Password Protected nature, bold text will display showing that. Hovering over the Title displays the unique identifier (ID) of a post.
• File size: The value entered in the File size field of Document Options.
• Date: The date column for each document shows the date Published for published documents or the date Last Modified for other documents. If the document is a future document, the scheduled date for publishing is displayed.

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Theme Options are a page in the WordPress Administration Panel which comes with this theme. It allows users to change theme settings without modifying theme files or knowing any code.

You can access Theme Options by going to WPlook Panel → Theme Options from the WordPress toolbar, or Appearance → Theme Options from the main menu.

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• Logo Image: The website logo, which will appear in the page header instead of a site title.

• Copyright: The text that will be displayed in the site footer.

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• Be a volunteer link: Add link for “Be a volunteer” .
• Be a volunteer text: Add link for “Be a volunteer” .
• Social Network Navigation: Social networks listed here are displayed as icons in the site header.
  • Click the Add New button in order to add a social network.
    

    The Social Network Navigation panel.

  • Set the Title to anything you want, it will not be displayed on the site.
  • The Service Name will be displayed once the user hovers over the social network icon.
  • The URL is where the social network icon will link to.
  • The Icon can be picked from the list of icons next to the input field.
    

    Settings available for each social network

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The General Settings section controls some of the most basic configuration settings for your site: your site’s title and location, who may register an account at your site, and how dates and times are calculated and displayed.

In order to access the general settings go to Settings → General.

Site title

Enter the name of your site (or blog) here. Most themes will display this title, at the top of every page, and in the reader’s browser titlebar. WordPress also uses this title as the identifying name for your syndication feeds (RSS).

Tagline

In a few words, explain what your site is about. Your sites’s slogan, or tagline, might be entered here. A tagline is short phrase, or sentence, used to convey the essence of the site and is often funny or eye-catching.

WordPress Address (URL)

Enter the full URL of the directory containing your WordPress core application files (e.g., wp-config.php, wp-admin, wp-content, and wp-includes). For example, if you installed WordPress into a directory called blog, then the WordPress address would be http://example.net/blog (where example.net is your domain). If you installed WordPress into your web root, this address will be the root URL http://example.net. WordPress will trim a slash (/) from the end.

Site Address (URL)

Enter the address you want people to type in their browser to reach your WordPress site. This is the directory where WordPress’s main index.php file is installed. The Site address (URL) is identical to the WordPress address (URL) (above) unless you are giving WordPress its own directory. WordPress will trim a slash (/) from the end.

E-mail Address

Enter the e-mail address to which you want WordPress to send messages regarding the administration and maintenance of your WordPress site.

For example, if you allow new users to register as a member of your site (see Membership below), then a notification will be sent through e-mail to this address. In addition, if the option, An administrator must always approve the comment, is set in Administration → Settings → Discussion, this e-mail address will receive notification that the comment is being held for moderation.

Please note this is different than the address you supplied for the admin user account; the admin account e-mail address is sent an e-mail only when someone submits a comment to a post by admin. The address you enter here will never be displayed on the site. You can send messages to multiple admins by using an email address which forwards email to multiple recipients.

Membership

Check the Anyone can register checkbox if you want anyone to be able to register an account on your site.

New User Default Role

This pull-down box allows you to select the default Role that is assigned to new users. This Default Role will be assigned to newly registered members or users added via the administration panel.

Timezone

From the pulldown box, choose a city in the same timezone as you. For example, under America, select New York if you reside in the Eastern Timezone of the United States that honors daylight savings times. If you can’t identify a city in your timezone, select one of the Manual Offsets that represents the number of hours by which your time differs from Greenwich Mean Time. Click the Save Changes button and the UTC time and “Local time” will display to confirm the correct Timezone was selected.

Date Format

The format in which to display dates on your site. This setting controls the format the theme displays dates in, but does not control how the date is displayed in the administrative panel. Select one of the proposed formats or see Formatting Date and Time in the WordPress documentation for more available formats.

Time Format

The format in which to display times on your site. This setting controls the format the theme displays times in, but does not control how the time is displayed in the administrative panel. Select one of the proposed formats or see Formatting Date and Time in the WordPress documentation for more available formats.

Week Starts On

Select your preferred start date for WordPress calendars from the drop-down box. Monday is the default setting for this drop-down, meaning a monthly calendar will show Monday in the first column. If you want your calendar to show Sunday as the first column, then select Sunday from the drop-down.

Site Language

The language for the WordPress administration panel as well as the front-end of the site. Read Configuring Site Language for information on how languages in WordPress work and how to translate the theme into your own language.

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• Post per page on Archive template: Set how many posts do you want to display per page.
• Excerpt limit for Blog/Archive template: Set how many words do you want to display for blog excerpt.
  

  

• Date on Blog/Archive template: Enable to show the date on Blog/Archive template.
• Author on Blog/Archive template: Enable to show the author on Blog/Archive template.
• Date on single post: Enable to show the post date on single posts.
• Author on single post: Enable to show the post author on single posts.
• Category on single post: Enable to show the category on single post.
• Tags on single post: Enable to show the tags on single post.

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Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual pages and blog posts, as well as your category and tag archives. A permalink is the web address used to link to your content. The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change — hence the name permalink.

The Settings → Permalinks screen allows you to choose your default permalink structure. You can choose from common settings or create custom URL structures. You must click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the screen for new settings to take effect.

By default, WordPress uses web URLs which have day and name in them; however, WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives. This can improve the aesthetics, usability, and forward-compatibility of your links.

Common settings

Check one of the radio buttons corresponding to the correct Permalink Structure for your blog.

• Default: An example of the default structure is http://www.sample.com/?p=123, where the number represents the post ID.
• Day and name: An example of the day and name based structure is http://www.sample.com/2008/03/31/sample-post/.
• Month and name: An example of the month and name based structure is http://www.sample.com/2008/03/sample-post/.
• Numeric: An example of the numeric structure is http://www.sample.com/archives/123.
• Post name: An example of the post name structure is http://www.sample.com/sample-post.
• Custom structure: In the box specify the custom structure you desire to use. One example is /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/.

While it’s most likely one of the default structures will be sufficient for your site, you can read about custom structures in the Structure Tags section of the WordPress documentation.

Optional

You may enter custom bases for your category and tag URLs here. For example, using /topics/ as your category base would make your category links like http://example.org/topics/uncategorized/. If you leave these blank the defaults will be used.

• Category base: Enter a custom prefix for your category URLs here.
• Tag base: Enter a custom prefix for your tag URLs here.

Saving your changes

Click the Save Changes button to ensure any changes you have made to your Settings are saved to your database. Once you click the button, a confirmation text box will appear at the top of the page telling you your settings have been saved. After you’ve clicked this button, you should receive one of two messages depending on whether your .htaccess file is writeable. For information on how to make .htaccess writeable, see Changing File Permissions.

If .htaccess is writeable, you will get a message that says “Permalink structure updated.” You’re all set; WordPress has been able to do everything for you automatically.

If .htaccess is not writeable, you will see a message at the top of the screen that says “You should update your .htaccess now.”.

Near the bottom of the screen you will see “If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.” This means you’ll have to do one extra step yourself. In the text box at the bottom of the Screen, WordPress displays several lines of rewrite rules associated with the Permalink Structure you designated above. You need to manually copy everything in this text box into your .htaccess file to make your new Permalinks work.

Visiting the Permalinks screen triggers a flush of rewrite rules. There is no need to save just to flush the rewrite rules.

If you’re writing your .htaccess file on your own local computer, remember, some operating systems do not allow the creation of a file named “.htaccess” because of the initial dot (“.”). You can always name the file without the initial dot or with a standard extension (e.g. “htaccess.txt”). Once the file is uploaded to your weblog’s directory, rename it with your FTP software. Most FTP Clients should provide you a way to rename files this.

Files that begin with a dot (“.”) like “.htaccess” are hidden on most servers by default. Consult the userguide or FAQ of the FTP software you use to find out how to have the software display these hidden files, and also how to use the software to change file permissions, rename files, etc.

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