Simple products
The easiest type of product to create is, unsurprisingly, called a simple product. It’s important to know how to create a simple product because everything else is based on it. So, you’ll want to know exactly how to manipulate a simple product. A good example of a simple product would be anything that comes in one format, such as a coffee cup, ring, or backpack. You can add a new product through your WordPress admin under Products | Add New.
We’re going to look into a few different aspects of simple products:
- Required and optional fields: To add useful data to the product page
- Taxonomies (categories and tags): To make it easy for users to browse our store
- Images: To instantly communicate what our product looks like
- Description fields: To describe our products
Let’s explore some of these aspects!
Product data fields
The only required field for a product is Product name (also known as the title). If you add...
