Draft Product Pages from WooCommerce

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#1

Hello,

Can you use a draft product page to create a custom product page using woocommerce product page short codes?
I am trying to avoid double publishing the same product pages.

I worked out a wire frame that will let me create the product pages the way I want them with cornerstone.
But I can’t figure out how to get WooCommerce to recognize them as product pages.

How do I get a custom product page to show up in the WooCommerce shop page?
HOw does it show up in the category pages?

And how do i get it to NOT pull in the stock product pages AND the custom pages.

I have inventory managed by woocommerce and integrated with Quickbooks.
So I can’t just build custom shop and category pages to replace the native WooCommerce functionality.

Please help.

Jesse

#2

Or… is it as simple as using redirects on all the active product pages to the new custom pages??
Am i stupid, will that work?

#3

Hello Jesse,

Thanks for writing in!

Please understand that WooCommerce allows to you create products and manage the products for your shop. Products is a custom post type created by the WooCommerce plugin. There is now way you can add normal page as your product page and part of the WooCommerce system. Cornerstone is a page/post builder. It is never meant to layout product pages. Cornerstone design will only display within the product description which is the content area for the product page. Any other element in the product page layout like the price, title, tabs, quatity selector were served by WooCommerce and it’s template. If you want to modify the product page layout you will need to modify the WooCommerce template instead. In doing so, you might need to review the WooCommerce documentation about how you can override the template:

Hope this helps.

#4

So using a redirect will not work for my purposes?
If i remove the tabs from the product page, use the product shortcode, and then custom design the lower part of the page?
Is that a viable option? or do you not advise I do this?

#5

and if not that, then all i’m trying to do is add custom elements under the standard woocommerce product page.

#6

This wireframe all I’m trying to accomplish.

#7

Hi Jesse,

Yes, you need a custom single product page template for that layout (see the links provided by Ruenel above).

The 301 redirect method you are thinking might work, but it’s inefficient as you’re going to do the product posts, and then product page.

Thanks,

#8

OK, so after some research, the correct answer, or close to it, is to create a global black for each variable product page.
And then to replace all content under the description tab, with the global block short code.
It’s not perfect, but it will do almost exactly what I was trying to do, though it will keep the tabs.
Which i’m fine with I guess.

But if anyone asks… this is a OK work around.
I’ll post the final page link once i’m done as an example.

#9

Completed version - https://vitalitycbd.com/buy/usda-organic-cbd-oil/
Accomplished through global blocks.

I couldn’t get the block contents to be full-width since it’s constrained by the product tab.
But it’s a major improvement regardless.

#10

Hi Jesse,

Thank you for sharing your workaround regarding the case.

#11

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