Detailed Tutorial on How to Add Products in WooCommerce

After setting up WooCommerce, some beginners in foreign trade website building might not be familiar with how to add products. Therefore, Naiba's article teaches you how to add products to your WooCommerce store. Using WooCommerce, anyone can sell or display products on their website. Before that, if you haven't installed WooCommerce yet, please refer tothis tutorialto learn.

How to Add Products in WooCommerce

After installing WooCommerce, go to the WP Admin Dashboard. You can find WooCommerce in the left menu bar, then select Add New under Products to add a new product.After clicking, you will see an interface similar to publishing a Post.

1. Add Product Title and Description

Fill in the product title and product introduction in the title and text box. At the bottom of the page, there is also a short product description area, which you can fill in if needed. When filling in the product title and introduction, you can appropriately include product keywords to help withGoogle SEO optimization。

2. Select Product Type

Below the text box, you will see the Product Data section, where you can set some parameters for the product.WooCommerce by default supports 4 product types:

1. Simple Product
2. Grouped Product
3. External/Affiliate Product
4. Variable Product

If a product has multiple variations such as color or size, you can use a Variable Product. Previous tutorial:Tutorial on Adding Variable Products with Optional Color Packages in WooCommerceIt also includes two options: Virtual Product and Downloadable Product. Usually, when we add a product, we directly add a Simple Product.

3. Fill in Basic Product Information

Product Data includes the following tabs. Fill them out according to your actual situation.

1. General
2. Inventory
3. Shipping
4. Linked Products
5. Attributes
6. Advanced

If you have installed some WooCommerce plugins yourself, you may get more tabs here. Linked Products can be used for product associations to achieve cross-selling and recommendations.

4. Fill in Product Short Description

This description will appear in a prominent place at the very beginning of the product, so you can make good use of this feature. Also, Google search engine will crawl the information here for display (not 100% guaranteed).

5. Select Categories and Add Images

On the right side of the Add Product page, you can select Product Categories, Product Tags, Featured Image, and Product Gallery. When adding product images, it is recommended to unify the image dimensions across the entire website, so the frontend display will look better.

6. Click the Publish Button

After entering all the content, you can click the Publish button, and a product is added.Visit the website frontend to view, and you can see a basic WooCommerce product display page. The effect of this page will vary depending on the WP Theme you choose. Naiba previously shared:10 Best WordPress WooCommerce Theme Recommendations