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How to Add and Manage Products in WooCommerce

This guide shows you how to add a product to your online shop, change it later, and remove it. It uses WooCommerce on a WordPress website.

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What is WooCommerce?

WordPress is a tool for building websites. WooCommerce is a free add-on for it. An add-on is called a plugin. WooCommerce turns your website into a shop with products, a cart and a checkout.

A product is anything you sell, such as a book or a T-shirt. You can also sell digital files.

Before you start

  • Install and activate the WooCommerce plugin in your WordPress dashboard.
  • Log in to your WordPress dashboard as an administrator.
  • Have a clear photo of the product and a short description.

Add a product

  1. In the dashboard menu, click Products.
  2. Click Add New.
  3. Type the product name at the top.
  4. Write a description in the big text box.
  5. Scroll to the Product data box. Keep the type as Simple product for one item with no choices.
  6. Under General, type the Regular price. You can add a Sale price if you like.
  7. Open the Inventory tab. Type a SKU if you use one. A SKU is a short code that names the product. Tick Manage stock to count how many are left.
  8. Click Set product image and upload your photo.
  9. On the right, pick or create a Product category. A category is a group, like "Shoes".
  10. Click Publish.

Change or remove a product

  1. Go to Products and then All Products.
  2. Hover over a product and click Edit. Change what you need, then click Update.
  3. For a quick change of price or stock, use Quick Edit under the name.
  4. To remove a product, click Trash. It moves to the Trash list, where you can restore it.
Tip: Emptying the Trash deletes products for good. Take a backup of your site first if you are not sure.

Other useful things

  • Use Import and Export at the top of the product list to move many products using a CSV file. A CSV file is a simple table of data.
  • Set a product to Draft to hide it without deleting it.

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Quick recap

  • WooCommerce is a plugin that makes a WordPress site into a shop.
  • Add products from Products then Add New.
  • Set a price, stock, image and category, then publish.
  • Edit, quick edit or trash products from the product list.
  • Back up before emptying the Trash.