In today's tutorial, I'm going to be showing you how to use product attributes. There are
two different types of attributes that you can use. One being custom and that is specific to
products that are not going to have global options. Maybe it's a special product that
you don't need to create a global option for and then there's also
global attributes which, you know, it's how it sounds it can be used globally.
But these are used for variable products in WooCommerce and pretty much it just means that
these products have options to select. So, I'm going to show you how to create a custom
attribute first. All right, so we're going to go to Products, and we're going to go to add new,
and we're just going to add our product name, all right. And then down here in the Product
Data section we're not going to focus on any of the other areas. But we're only going to focus on
the product data section of these products. So we're going to change this to variable product
and if I try to go to the Variations tab now it's going to say nope, you have to go
to the Attributes tab first. So I'm going to go to attributes and if I have created global attributes
already they would already be listed in here, which they are not because we are going to create
them. So from this drop-down I'm just going to click Add because we're creating a custom product
attribute. we're just going to call this a custom option and we want to use this for variation
so we're going to make sure that's checked off and from here we're going to enter some values.
So we're just gonna do option 1 and we're gonna separate these for the pipe option 2 and option 3.
All right so I'm gonna save these attributes and I'm going to expand this, so you can see what it
looks like and that's it. So now I can go to Variations and from this drop down I'm going
to select Create Variations from All Attributes and hit Go. It's going to ask me if I want to.
I'm sure, of course I'm sure. I'm going to hit OK, then it's going to let me know how
many variations have been added. So i'll hit OK on that. All right, so from here I can expand these,
and I can enter in my price, I can enter in my weight, and my dimensions. I can also enter in a
description if these were specific styles maybe, you know, specific material whatever the case
may be I can upload an image for each particular variation as well. So it's pretty much just very
straightforward the only thing that is required is the price, so if you don't enter in anything else
that's okay. It is important to set weight and dimensions. Especially if you're using the UPS,
or USPS, or Fedex plug-ins as they require weight and dimensions or weight and/or dimensions.
For their setup to calculate shipping. So that's pretty much it once you have all of your options
or excuse me variations filled out, you would just hit Save Changes and then you can go about
updating the rest of your product data in here and you know set a Category, set your product image,
maybe you have a gallery, then you can hit Publish and it'll go right to your shop page. All right
so I'm going to move this to the trash and now we're going to add global attributes. So we're
going to go to Attributes under Products and because I've used a size and color quite a bit
we're just gonna type in color and add or I can just type in the attribute and hit Enter.
So now I have my attributes in here but we need to add Values,
so to do that we're going to want to configure the terms. All right so from here
I'm gonna do red, blue, green, yellow. All right, and if I want to um show these alphabetically I
can change the order as you can see, just drag and drop them and that's all set. So we're going to go
back to Attributes and we're going to do the same thing for our other attributes. So this is size,
so we'll do small, medium, and large, and I'm going to just change the order of these
and that's all for that. And then for style we're gonna configure the terms. And we'll just do
And this would be like if we're creating like a t-shirt design that has multiple different
types of, you know, styles for you know printing on. So maybe you got you know a crew neck, or
maybe you have a v-neck, maybe you have regular. But I'm just gonna add these two in here for now,
so now what we're going to do, is we're going to go to Add New. We're going to add a new product.
I'm just going to give it a title and that's it. We're going to change this to variable products
and we're going to go to attributes first. Aand then from here
you'll see that we have global attributes that we can use. So we can use color,
we can use style, or excuse me, size, and then style. And we want to use these for variations
and we're just going to select all of these but you don't have to select all of the terms
that are created and you can also go back and add more terms to your global attributes.
So we'll do select all, select all, select all. Hit save attributes and now we can go
to variations and we can create variations from all attributes and hit Go. It's going to ask me
am I sure. Of course we're sure. Hit okay and it's giving us 24 variations. All right, so
to pretty much explain this, these are grouping the color, the size, and the style all together.
So as you can see we have a green small crew neck, green small v-neck, green medium crewneck, so on
and so forth. Okay, and I can expand all of these and enter in you know a price, and of course,
my weight and dimensions, a description if I want to. I would definitely want to do a picture for
these because this is showing a specific color. All right? And also a specific style too, so I'll
do the color, you know like green with a crew neck, and then you know green with the v-neck,
and I can just continue that process you know so on and so forth, but pretty much you want to make
sure that all of your stuff is entered in here. And then once you get all the way down to the
bottom you have a couple of pages to go through so first you're going to want to save your changes,
and then you can go to the next page to finish adding in all of your variation information.
So that concludes using product attributes. If you have any questions
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