Documentation

Learn how to set up, customize, and expand the functionality of WooCommerce

2. Settings and options

Documents

  • WooCommerce Menu Items

    Activating WooCommerce adds 4 main menu items to the WordPress admin dashboard. Click here for a closer look.

  • Understanding the WooCommerce System Status Report

    The WooCommerce System Status report is useful for troubleshooting issues with your store. Containing a wide variety of information and tools, you can check software versions, server settings, and more from within. System Status To view your System Status report: WordPress Environment This provides general information about your site and WordPress installation and features you […]

  • MaxMind geolocation integration

    The free, core WooCommerce plugin enables store owners to automatically geolocate customers to display tax rates and shipping methods specific to their location. To determine this, WooCommerce integrates with MaxMind GeoLite2 geolocation data (as of version 3.9+). This document covers: Enabling geolocation To enable the MaxMind geolocation integration: Once geolocation is enabled, you’ll need to […]

  • Roles and Capabilities

    WooCommerce registers two user roles once activated, and grants additional capabilities to the Admin: Customer role People become Customers when they register via the checkout or sign-up process. Customers: Shop Manager role Shop Manager is a role you can give someone to manage the shop without making them an Admin. They have all the rights a customer […]

  • Translating WooCommerce

    WooCommerce is already translated into a few languages and is translation-ready out of the box. All that is needed is a translation file for your language, which is automatically installed for the languages on this list by changing the site’s language. On this page you’ll learn: Set up WordPress in your language The first step to […]

  • The My account page

    Overview Customers who have an account with your store have access to My account — the central customer dashboard in a WooCommerce store. Here, customers can view past orders, and edit addresses and payment details. This guide provides an overview of what your customers can do via their account dashboard. Dashboard If a customer visits […]

  • High-Performance Order Storage

    High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) (previously known as Custom Order Tables) is a solution specifically designed for ecommerce needs that provides a simple-to-understand, solid database structure. It uses Woo’s Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) design to store order data in custom tables optimized for WooCommerce queries, with minimal impact on the store’s performance.  What’s new with High-Performance Order […]

  • Woo Marketplace Suggestions Settings

    Overview The Marketplace Suggestions settings in WooCommerce empower store owners with the flexibility to customize their experience by managing the types of recommendations and suggestions they receive. This document provides a comprehensive overview of the settings available, how they work, and best practices for customization, including the use of a new filter to disable suggestions […]

  • Shortcodes included with WooCommerce

    WooCommerce has traditionally utilized shortcodes to add dynamic content and features to WordPress pages. With WordPress’s evolution toward the Gutenberg block-based editor, the focus has shifted from shortcodes to more interactive and visually integrated blocks. While the block editor offers interactively customizable blocks and enhanced editing capabilities, we recognize many stores still lean heavily on […]

  • Permalinks

    Permalink is short for permanent link. Permalinks are the URL structures used to help organize the content of your website which can be pages, posts, or, in the case of WooCommerce, products. A good URL structure can be efficiently navigated, shared, and referenced by potential customers and search engine crawlers. On this page you’ll learn: […]