Best practice for adding product fields

  • Resolved dannydandan123

    (@dannydandan123)


    5 years, 9 months ago

    What is the best practice for adding additional product fields? Examples include product model, product color, etc. Ideally I’d like to be able to filter the catalog page using some of these fields, and also display them on the product details page which I’ve built using Elementor.
    I’ve noticed some folks recommend using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin, but is that actually the best practice? Seems more like a hack.

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  • Plugin Support Senff – a11n

    (@senff)

    5 years, 9 months ago

    Hi @dannydandan123

    It depends what you’re trying to do exactly, but in most cases, you can use WooCommerce’s attributes for that.

    For example, if you sell cars on your site, then every car can have the additional information in attributes: color, model, year, etc. In this case, these attributes are just for informational purposes. Each attribute would have a name (e.g. color) and one value (e.g. blue).

    You can also use attributes to give your customers options to select, if you sell items with different variations. For example, if you sell clothing, then you can set up a Variable Product, with various attributes such as size or color. Each attribute would then have a name (e.g. color) but more than one value value (e.g. blue, red, black, etc). The customer can then select which color they want.

    Let me know if that helps, or if you’re looking for something different!

    3 Sons Development

    (@3sonsdevelopment)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hi @dannydandan123

    Since we haven’t heard from you in a while, we’re hoping that means you were able to get this resolved. I’m going to close this thread out now.

    If you’re still having trouble, please open up a new topic and we’ll be happy to help out.

    Cheers!

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