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In today’s world, there are seemingly endless tools for building an ecommerce site. In this guide to Shopify vs BigCommerce, I’ll take a close look at two of the most popular ecommerce store builders, determining which is better in several categories.
Do you want to learn how to add tags, attributes, and categories to your WooCommerce products?
By optimizing your WooCommerce product listings, you can help your visitors find what they’re looking for and get more traffic from search engines and social media.
In this article, we’ll show you how to add product tags, attributes, categories, and more in WooCommerce, step by step.
Why Add Product Tags, Attributes and Categories to WooCommerce Products?
Adding the right product tags, attributes, and categories in WooCommerce will help you to get more traffic to your online store, make more sales, and improve the overall user experience for your customers.
Firstly, using categories, tags, and attributes in WooCommerce will make your store more organized, helping visitors find the products they’re looking for much faster.
They can also help to improve your store’s search engine optimization. That’s because using descriptive tags, attributes, and categories will help your products to appear in more searches, growing your traffic and sales.
What’s the Difference Between Categories, Tags, and Attributes in WooCommerce?
Many beginners get confused about the differences between categories, tags, and attributes.
Categories are meant for a broad grouping of your products, like men’s, women’s, or children’s clothing.
Tags are more like keywords for a specific product. A women’s shirt could have tags like summer, discount, casual, soft, and more.
Attributes are for specific characteristics of a product. For example, you can give important information about the product’s weight, material, color, and more.
This is common in clothing stores, where customers can filter products by a specific size, color, or fabric.
Here’s an example of a WooCommerce product with the category ‘Accessorites’ and an attribute for the color red listed on the product page.
Categories and tags are used for your WordPress blog posts as well. You can read more about the difference in our guide to categories vs tags.
That being said, let’s show you how to add product categories, tags, and attributes to your WooCommerce products.
Adding Product Categories, Tags, and Attributes to WooCommerce Products
WooCommerce has built in settings to add categories, tags, and attributes right out of the box.
To add categories, navigate to Products » Categories in your WordPress admin panel.
Then, you can give your category a name, add a slug, and choose whether or not it has a parent category.
Next, you can optionally give your category a description and choose the ‘Display type’ from the ‘Default’ drop down.
This controls what the category landing page will look like. Here you can choose to display your ‘Default’ theme options, ‘Products’, ‘Subcategories’, or ‘Both’.
The Default option will depend on the theme you’re using. ‘Products’ would display all the products in that category and any subcategories on the main category page (for example, wpbeginner.com/shop/jackets). ‘Subcategories’ would simply display the subcategories, and the visitor would have to click on one of the subcategories to view those products.
If you want to add a category thumbnail, then click the ‘Upload/Add image’ button.
Make sure you click the ‘Add new category’ button to save your changes.
To add more categories or subcategories, simply follow the same steps as above.
Now you can assign a product to a category by going to your product page, then checking the category box in the ‘Product categories’ section.
You can also click the ‘Add new category’ link.
This brings up a section where you can quickly create new categories on the fly.
Once you’re finished assigning categories, make sure to click the ‘Publish’ or ‘Update’ button.
Adding and Editing Product Tags
Your product tags are similar to tags in your blog posts. You can use product tags to make it easier for your visitors to find the exact products they’re looking for.
To add new tags, simply go to Products » Tags and enter the name of your tag, the slug, the description, and then click the ‘Add new tag’ button.
To add more tags, simply follow the same steps as above.
You can also add individual tags to your product pages. Simply open up the product page you want to edit, then enter your tags into the ‘Product tags’ box and click the ‘Add’ button.
Once you’re finished, make sure to click ‘Publish’ or ‘Update’ to save your changes.
Adding and Editing Product Attributes
Finally, you have product attributes. These help group products together and offer users a way to filter your products.
To add product attributes, you need to go to Products » Attributes and then give your attribute a name and slug.
You can also enable archives by checking the ‘Enable Archives’ box. This gives you the ability to display all items that share that attribute on a page.
After that, you need to choose the ‘Default sort order’. This is the order your products will appear on the shop page for that attribute.
We’ll choose the ‘Custom ordering’ option to give more control, but you can also order by name, and term ID.
Then, click the ‘Add attribute’ button to add it to the attribute table.
Now, you need to click the ‘Configure terms’ link to add terms to the attribute.
For example, if you created an attribute called ‘Color’, then you can add the individual colors as terms.
This brings up a screen similar to the main attribute screen, where you need to enter the name, slug, and optional description.
Then, click the ‘Add New Color’ button to save your attribute terms. You can add as many attribute terms as you want by repeating the process.
Once you’ve done that, you can add your attributes to individual products.
Simply open up the product page you want to edit, then click the ‘Attributes’ option in the ‘Product data’ section under the text editor.
Next, select your attribute in the ‘Custom product attribute’ drop down.
Then, click ‘Add’.
This adds the attribute to your product.
Now, you can select your attribute terms from the ‘Value(s)’ box.
Once you’re done adding your attributes, click the ‘Save attributes’ button.
After that, make sure to click ‘Publish’ or ‘Update’ to save your product.
Optimizing Your Product Listings for WooCommerce SEO
Once you’re done creating tags, attributes, and categories, you can improve your product pages even more with the help of an SEO plugin.
It’s very easy to use and lets you optimize your website for SEO without any technical skills. This means more traffic from the search engines and social media, and more eyes on your products.
Note: There is a free version of the plugin, but we’ll be using the Pro version since it includes the WooCommerce SEO features we need.
After that, you can optimize your product titles by opening the page for a product and scrolling down to the ‘AIOSEO Settings’ box below the product editor.
Here you can change the product’s SEO title and description. You can use the smart tags to automatically generate descriptions based on your product details, or enter a custom title and description instead.
Make sure that you use your main product keyword in both the title and meta description fields.
After that, click on the ‘Social’ tab to optimize how your product will display across social media.
You have complete control over the product image you want to use, which will help you get more engagement from your followers.
Next, click the ‘Schema’ tab. Schema markup lets the search engines better display your content in the search results.
If you’ve seen product listings with prices, star ratings, and more, then you’ve seen product schema in action.
All in One SEO will automatically choose the right schema type for your products and fill in the pricing, availability, and more.
You can also add additional schema markup, including the brand, identifier type, and identifier fields. Identifiers can be any unique ID such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, or UUIDs.
Once you’re done customizing your product listing for SEO, make sure to click the ‘Update’ button to save your changes.
For more details, see our ultimate WooCommerce SEO guide for ranking higher in Google.
We hope this article helped you learn how to add product tags, attributes, and categories to WooCommerce. You may also want to see our expert picks of the best WooCommerce plugins for your store and our guide on how to create an email newsletter the right way.
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Hello, I have a problem in making that when the light is green it would light for 5seconds and when the lights are red-yellow or yellow it will only light up for 3seconds. Could anyone help me how to get the result?
; controlling external device with 8086 microprocessor.
; realistic test for c:\emu8086\devices\Traffic_Lights.exe
#start=Traffic_Lights.exe#
name "traffic"
mov ax, all_red
out 4, ax
mov si, offset situation
next:
mov ax, [si]
out 4, ax
; wait 5 seconds (5 million microseconds)
mov cx, 4Ch ; 004C4B40h = 5,000,000
mov dx, 4B40h
mov ah, 86h
int 15h
add si, 2 ; next situation
cmp si, sit_end
jb next
mov si, offset situation
jmp next
; FEDC_BA98_7654_3210
situation dw 0000_0011_0000_1100b
s1 dw 0000_0110_1001_1010b
s2 dw 0000_1000_0110_0001b
s3 dw 0000_1000_0110_0001b
s4 dw 0000_0100_1101_0011b
sit_end = $
all_red equ 0000_0010_0100_1001b
Amazon has announced that it will permanently shut down Alexa.com, the company’s global traffic and ranking resource that has been in operation for over 25 years. This move will end long-term access to valuable statistics on website performance and reach.
Earlier today, version 1.0 of 10up’s Publisher Media Kit went live in the WordPress plugin directory. It is a preconfigured set of blocks and patterns for jump-starting a media kit page for small and medium-sized publications.
When I first noticed the plugin, my mind immediately jumped to press kits and branding pages for businesses. Not enough companies within the WordPress space have such pages, and it can often be hard for journalists and other writers to find information. While this plugin is geared toward publications, small businesses can still get some use out of the plugin with a few changes.
Given that WP Tavern just launched its new design yesterday, this might be an opportunity for us to lead the way. The plugin does give me a few ideas on what we could do with a similar page here on the site.
Publisher Media Kit has been tested with Twenty Twenty-One, Newspack, and several Newspack child themes. I did run it through most of those to check for compatibility, and the plugin worked admirably. However, I primarily tested it with Twenty Twenty-Two, the upcoming default WordPress theme. Aside from a few layout alignment quirks, it worked well.
The plugin automatically creates a new “Media Kit” draft page on the website once it is activated. The content is a set of pre-defined sections built from eight patterns and an accompanying Tabs block.
Partial screenshot of Media Kit page.
This allows users to quickly fill in their own content and make customizations. Once done, it is just a matter of hitting the publish button.
However, end-users can take things into their own hands by using the various patterns on any post or page of their site. The cover, stats, and questions/contact patterns work well as general-use patterns.
The plugin’s custom block patterns.
Note: I deleted a couple of the patterns from the screenshot above. For some reason, they were rendered invalid in the patterns explorer but worked fine when inserted into the content canvas.
I would love to see a standalone version of the Tabs block included with the plugin. It is showcased in the rates and digital ad specs patterns, but it is so easy to create new tabbed content that I cannot help but want to use it with other projects.
Tabs block in the editor.
It could become a popular tabs solution with a few design options like colors, borders, and typography. It is minimal at the moment, but its user experience would make for an ideal foundation for a single-block plugin.
One of my favorite things about the block system is that it makes plugins like Publisher Media Kit feasible. In the past, it was virtually impossible to ship a content-focused plugin and expect it to work with most themes, at least not without a lot of custom design work. That meant that solid solutions would often stay in-house with agencies with no ideal way of shipping them.
The standardization of blocks has bridged much of that gap. As the system continues evolving, especially with more design options, I expect to see similar plugins in the future.
Do you need to add a scrolling news ticker to your WordPress site?
You’ll often see news tickers used by television networks to highlight breaking news. You can add a news ticker to your website to highlight special deals or popular posts.
In this article, we’ll show you how to add a scrolling news ticker in WordPress.
What Is a Scrolling News Ticker?
A news ticker scrolls a single line of information continuously across the screen. They typically display current news items, sporting results, live financial and currency information, and weather information.
They are a great way to display small snippets of information that are always changing. You’ll find that a news ticker can display quite a lot of information in a limited space on your WordPress blog.
For example, you could use a news ticker to display your best performing posts, items in your store that are on sale, or any other information that you want to highlight.
Upon activation, the plugin adds a News Ticker menu item to your WordPress admin area.
You need to navigate to News Tickers » Add New to add a news ticker. On the next screen, you will have the ability to give this particular news ticker a name, ticker text, and link.
For each ticker, you can add as many ticks as you like. These are the separate pieces of information you want to display, and each can have its own link.
If you want to add another ticker item, then press the plus + button at the top right of the current tick. A new ticker item will be added.
Once you are done adding ticker items, you should click on the Ticker Mode tab. There are three different ticker modes available: scroll, rotate, and list.
Scroll mode is the default setting because it is the most commonly used in television networks. Rotate is another good option if you want to show one ticker at a time.
The settings on the rest of the page allow you to adjust the behavior of the news ticker. You can configure scroll speed and direction, override the default ticker dimensions, and choose the spacing between each tick.
The plugin generates a shortcode as well as a PHP function for each news ticker you create. You can either add the shortcode to a post, page, sidebar widget, or you can directly insert the PHP function into your theme files.
Once you insert the ticker shortcode or PHP function, then you can visit your website to see it in action.
I think you will agree when I say: running an online business is no easy task. You have to set up your website right, add products and then market the hell out of your business. It’s not for the faint of heart, more so for beginners. Even with all the effort you put in, your […]
Do you need to add custom styling to the first and last items of your WordPress navigation menu?
You could simply add a custom CSS class to the first and last menu items, but if the menu is rearranged, then those items will no longer be first and last.
In this article, we’ll show you how to add a .first and .last class that will style the first and last menu items even if the menu items are reordered.
Why Style the First and Last Navigation Items Differently?
In a past custom design project, we needed to add some custom styling to the navigation menu items of a WordPress website. This design in particular required different styling for the first menu item and the last menu item.
Now we could easily edit the menu and add a custom CSS class to the first and last menu item. But because we were delivering the project to a client, our solution had to work even if they rearranged the order of the menus.
In this tutorial, we’ll show you two ways to style the first and last items of your navigation menu. You can choose your preferred method from the list below:
This creates .first and .last CSS classes for your first and last navigation menu items respectively. You can use those classes to style the menu items.
For this tutorial, we’ll add the following basic CSS formatting to our theme’s style.css stylesheet to simply bold the first and last menu items:
.first a {font-weight: bold;}
.last a {font-weight: bold;}
Here you can see screenshots before and after we added the code to our demo site.
Method 2: Styling First and Last Items Using CSS Selectors
A second way to style the first and last menu items differently is to use CSS selectors. This method is simpler, but it may not work with some older browsers, such as Internet Explorer.
Note that you will need to replace ‘yourmenuid’ with the actual ID of the navigation menu. The selectors ‘first-child’ and ‘last-child’ select an element if it is the first and last child of its parent, which is the navigation menu.
For example, we used this code to bold the first and last navigation menu items on our demo site:
ul#primary-menu-list > li:first-child a {
font-weight: bold;
}
ul#primary-menu-list > li:last-child a {
font-weight: bold;
}
We hope this tutorial helped you learn how to add the .first and .last class to WordPress navigation menus.
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Personalized content, friendly interfaces, and interactive themes help create engaging, accessible websites. But to truly reach a global audience, your website should speak your clients’ language. Fortunately, translating your site into any language is getting easier, quicker, and more affordable thanks to automatic translation options, also called machine translation, in many translation plugins. Why Translate […]
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