Products Categories, Tags, and Attributes

To get each product on your ecommerce store covered and help your customers navigate easily to find products, adding categories, tags, and attributes are important. These are a few important features that provide an organized structure to the products on your ecommerce website.

Our product management system lets you add new categories, tags, and product attributes- making it easier for your customers to find relevant products.

 

Create product categories

Create a product category
Woocommerce->Products->Categories

Adding a category is the primary way to group your products with similar features. E.g., if you have a clothing store, you might have “Ethnic wear” and “Party wears” as categories.

Create a product category to group your products in Woocommerce products. Add all the required details like category name, slug, description, and thumbnail.

If the category you have created is a subcategory, you can nest it under a parent category.

Choose what you want to show on a category’s landing page by selecting “Display type”. Standard Display type will use theme’s default display. “Products” will display all products, whereas “Subcategory” will only display subcategories. “Both” will display products as well as subcategories.

 

Adding a product to a category

Adding a product to a category
Woocommerce->Products->Add new

Products can be grouped into the categories created while creating a new product.

 

Example

Categories created on the shop page

Product categories
Product categories on a shop page

 

Products nested under a category

Products under a category
Products under a category

 

Create product tags

Creating products tags
Woocommerce->Products->Tags

Product tags are finer classification options of products. They are another way to navigate the products on your online store outside categories.

Create a product tag in Woocommerce products. Add all the required details like tag name, slug, and description. Add tags while creating products.

 

Adding tags to your products

Adding tags to the products
Woocommerce->Products->Add new

Just like categories, you can add tags to your products while creating a new product.

 

Example

Tags displayed on the front end of the product page

products with the same tag
products with the same tag

 

Showing products with the same tag

Displaying products with the same tag
Displaying products with the same tag

 

Add product attributes

Add product attributes
Woocommerce->Products->Attributes

Attributes are used to define extra product data like size or color so that customers can find the items that are relevant to them easily.

E.g., if you are having a clothing store, one of the logical attributes would be product color.

A global product (an attribute that can be applied to any product on your online store) attribute is created in Woocommerce product- attributes.

Populate the required details, click on “Add attribute” and start configuring the attribute by adding terms.

 

Adding attribute terms

Adding attribute terms
Woocommerce->Products->Attributes->Add new

Add as many attribute terms as you want by adding name, slug, and description. (In this case, the terms of the attribute “Product color” are Blue, Green, Black, and Red)

 

Add attributes to products

Add attributes to products
Woocommerce->Products->Add new->Attributes

Add attributes terms to your products while creating a product in the product data Meta box. The selected term will be visible on the product page in “Additional information”.

 

Example

If you have enabled archives, all the products having black terms will be displayed on clicking on “Black”. This makes it easy for your customers to find products they are looking for based on color.

Displaying a product attribute on the product page
Displaying a product attribute on the product page