I think I understand what you trying to achieve. It’s possible but you would need to use the eCommerce plugin WooCommerce.

When you create a product it would need to be a ‘Grouped Product’ with simple products assigned.

You would have something similar to the following.

Group Title: Bach, J.S. – Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F
Simple Product: wind & continuo o-0006-w ￡5.20
Simple Product: piccolo violin o-0006-vp ￡1.20

Also worth mentioning as these simple products will be light in terms of content so I’d suggest setting them to ‘hidden’ so they aren’t directly accessible.

Hopefully, that will point you in the right direction. If you have any other questions just let me know.

Thanks,
Martyn

A few more questions:

I assume it would be possible to create separate styles for Group and Simple products, so that the Group line stands out as a heading.

The next thing that occurs to me (bear in mind that I have no experience whatever of WordPress e-commerce) is what information the customer would get after ordering. In Sellerdeck the details of the order would be spelt out in two emails, one on ordering, the other on despatch. The ‘simple’ product, as displayed on-screen, is identified only by its catalogue number, which wouldn’t mean much in an email, in the absence of the “Group Product” information. Sellerdeck gets round this by allowing for a ‘short description’ and a ‘full description’ for every product. In the case of the “simple product” the ‘short description’ is what appears on the screen. The ‘full description’ includes the title of the work. This is hidden on screen, but it’s what goes to the customer in the email. So:

“viola…..o-0475-va……￡0.40………..” (viz. “Full description…..Product reference…..Price…..”)

is what appears on the screen, and

“Elgar – Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op.20 – viola” (Short description)

is what goes in the emails to the customer.

Is there a way of doing that in WordPress / WooCommerce ?

John Harding