One of the great things about WooCommerce is that it is highly customizable. You can override WooCommerce styles to match your theme, or create your own custom styles. In this article, we’ll show you how to override WooCommerce styles.
There are two ways to override WooCommerce styles:
1. Use a child theme
2. Use the Customizer
If you’re not familiar with child themes, they are essentially a way to modify an existing theme without having to edit the original code. This is ideal for making changes to a theme, as it ensures that your changes won’t be lost when the theme is updated.
To create a child theme, you’ll need to create a new folder in your WordPress directory (usually /wp-content/themes/). Inside this folder, you’ll create two files:
style.css – contains your child theme’s stylesheet
functions.php – contains your child theme’s functions
<?php // Your code goes here.. ?>
Once you've created these files, you'll need to add the following code to your child theme's style.css file:
/* Theme Name: My Child Theme Template: twentyfifteen */ /* =Theme customization starts here -------------------------------------------------------------- */
The first line of code (Theme Name) is self-explanatory - it just tells WordPress what the name of your child theme is. The second line of code (Template) tells WordPress which theme your child theme is based on.
In this case, we're using the twentyfifteen theme. The third line of code is a comment - it's not required, but it's a good way to divide up your code so that it's easy to read.
The next thing you'll need to do is enqueue your child theme's stylesheet in your functions.php file. You can do this by adding the following code:
function my_child_theme_scripts() {
wp_enqueue_style( 'child-theme-styles', get_stylesheet_uri(), array(), '1.0' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_child_theme_scripts', 11 );
This code tells WordPress to load your child theme's stylesheet after the parent theme's stylesheet (hence the priority of 11). This ensures that your child theme's styles will take precedence over the parent theme's styles.
Now that you've enqueued your child theme's stylesheet, you can start overriding WooCommerce styles by adding CSS rules to your child theme's style.css file. For example, let's say you want to change the color of the "Add to Cart" button on product pages. You can do this by adding the following CSS rule to your child theme's style.css file:
.WooCommerce button.button {
background-color: #ff0000; /* red */
}
This will change the background color of the "Add to Cart" button to red on all product pages. Of course, you can use any CSS properties in your rules - not just colors!
If you want to make more global changes (like changes that affect all WooCommerce pages), you can use the Customizer instead of a child theme. The Customizer is a built-in WordPress tool that lets you preview and customize various aspects of your site, including colors, fonts, layouts, and more.
To access the Customizer, go to Appearance > Customize in your WordPress admin panel. From there, you can click on any of the options in the left sidebar to start customizing various aspects of your site. For example, if you want to change the color scheme of WooCommerce pages, you can go to WooCommerce > Product Colors and select a new color scheme from the dropdown menu:
