WooCommerce is a powerful eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell anything, beautifully. When setting up your online store with WooCommerce, you’ll need to decide how to display your products. One option is to show them in a table, which can be a great way to present a lot of information in an easy-to-digest format.
To show your products in a table, first go to the WooCommerce settings page and select the Products tab. Then, under the Display options section, check the box next to “Enable product table view.”
Now that you’ve enabled the product table view, all you need to do is go to the page where you want to display your products and add the [product_table] shortcode. This will automatically insert a table with all of your products and their relevant information, including name, price, SKU, image, and description.
However, displaying a product table can have a negative impact on your WooCommerce store’s performance. This is because each time a visitor loads a page with a product table, WooCommerce has to query the database for all of the products in the table.
If you have a lot of products, this can slow down your site significantly. Additionally, if you have products with a lot of data (such as variations), this can further impact performance.
Therefore, we recommend only displaying product tables on pages where they will be genuinely useful to your customers, and consider using caching or lazy-loading to improve performance.
If you want to further customize the look of your product table, there are a few options available. For example, you can change the number of columns shown by using the columns attribute: [product_table columns=”4″] This would show four products per row instead of the default three.
You can also change the order in which products are displayed by using the orderby attribute. For example, [product_table orderby=”price”] would display products from lowest to highest price. There are a variety of other orderby options available as well, such as title, date, andrand.
Finally, if you want to give your customers the ability to search and filter products in the table, you can use the search_box and filters attributes: [product_table search_box=”true” filters=”true”] This would add a search box and product filters above the table so customers can easily find what they’re looking for.
The WooCommerce product table view is a great way to showcase a lot of information about your products in an easy-to-use format. By using the shortcode attributes described above, you can further customize the look and functionality of your product tables to perfectly suit your needs.
