How to set Woocommerce general product settings

How to set Woocommerce general product settings

  1. To access the admin panel of your site go to yoursite.com/wp-admin and log in with your username and password .

  1. Navigate to Woocommerce -> Settings -> products.

  1. There are 3 tabs inside products settings.




  1. General settings:

Shop Pages: 


  • Shop Page: Choose the page you want to display as the main Shop page.  For Example: yoursite.com/shop.

  • Add to cart behaviour: There are two checkboxes which are self explanatory. Enable or disable as per your requirements.

  • Redirect to the cart page after successful addition: Enable this option if you want to redirect users to the cart page when they add a new item to cart.

  • Enable AJAX add to cart buttons on archives: This is recommended to enable AJAX add to cart for adding product directly to cart page without reloading the page.


  • Placeholder image: This is an attachment ID or image url to set a default ‘placeholder’ image to appear on the front end when no other image is available. This could be your brand logo or an image of a signature product or service.


Measurements:


  • Weight Unit: This controls which unit you define to measure weight. I.e. kg, g, etc.

  • Dimensions Unit: This controls which unit you define to measure dimensions. I.e. cm, m, etc.


Reviews:


  • Enable Reviews: All the checkboxes are self explanatory. You can enable or disable it as per your store requirements.

  • Product Ratings: Both the checkboxes are recommended to make it enable. Disable only if you don’t want star ratings to be required. 




  1. Inventory: 

  • Manage stock: Enable this option to manage stock.

  • Hold Stock: Set time to  hold stock for unpaid orders. When the limit reached pending order will be cancelled and stock will be updated again.

  • Notification: Enable both the notifications and it will keep you updated regarding stock and you can manage it.

  • Notification recipient(s): Enter email address on which you want to get all the notifications regarding stock.

  • Low stock threshold: Get notified when product stock reaches a particular limit.

  • Out of stock threshold: Show product as out of stock when product stock reaches to this limit. This will notify you through mail.

  • Out of stock visibility: Check this checkbox if you want to hide a product when the product is out of stock.

  • Stock display format: Select the format to display stock. This controls how quantity counts are displayed on the frontend store.




  1. Downloadable products: 


  • Force Downloads – Files are ‘forced’ to download via a PHP script. Files are not accessible to anyone but purchasers, and direct links are hidden.

  • X-Accel-Redirect/X-Sendfile – Similar to ‘forced’ above, but it has better performance and can support larger files. It requires that your hosting provider supports either X-Sendfile or X-Accel-Redirect, so you need to check with them first.

  • Redirect only – A download URL links the user to the file. Files are not protected from outside access.


Most stores should use one of the first two methods to keep files safe from outside access. Redirect should only be used if you encounter problems or don’t mind downloads being non-secure.

Access Restriction

  • Select if downloads require login – Does not apply to guest purchases.

  • Grant access to downloadable products after payment – Enable to grant access to downloads when orders are Processing, rather than Completed.





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