Can I use WordPress taxonomies for WooCommerce products?

  • Resolved jorisw

    (@jorisw)


    3 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    I have a client with an existing website detailing their products that they didn’t sell online until now. Meaning their site describes vividly, tied together with WordPress tags and categories, their items of passion.

    I want to help them out to start selling online by installing WooCommerce.

    Can I use the existing content for selling products, without breaking up their current content architecture?

    Let’s say we’re talking about wines. Could I rename the custom post type ‘wine’ to ‘product’ and still keep using the categories the way they are, with WooCommerce recognizing the products?

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by jorisw.
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  • Plugin Support RK a11n

    (@riaanknoetze)

    Hi there,

    Renaming the CPT to product alone wouldn’t convert all the metadata that WooCommerce needs for a product (e.g. price, stock, variations etc.). Equally the taxonomies for your CPT would likely be different as WooCommerce uses product-category instead of the default WordPress category taxonomy ??

    The *easiest* method here, without manually copy/pasting data (or building CSV files) would be to:

    • Keep the existing CPT in place;
    • Create brand new products in WooCommerce that correspond with the titles of the other CPT
    • Set the “Catalog Visibility” for each of these products to “Hidden”
    • Use WooCommerce add-to-cart shortcodes in the description area of the existing CPT (more information at https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-shortcodes/#section-19)

    This gives you the best of both worlds: Keeping the existing CPT and content while being able to add the product to the cart ??

    Thread Starter jorisw

    (@jorisw)

    Thanks, I know now that I can’t use WP native taxonomies and I will take your suggestion into consideration.

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