How to Customize WooCommerce Product Pages

When planning a WooCommerce store, you will have to answer a lot of up-front questions that will have a serious impact on the future success of the store. The setup of the store is a serious challenge because once done, changes to the setup and design of the store are always difficult. To customize WooCommerce product pages, you'll have to consider the options available to you, which I'll get into in this post.

Now once the store is up, the next challenge is the clutter on the product pages. WooCommerce Single Product page has a lot of elements that do not directly help with the custom design and setup of the store. Two common culprits are product categories and star ratings. Not every store needs these two elements on the Single Product page. Similarly, other elements also need to be repositioned in order to fit into the store’s custom design.

All these challenges could be tackled very easily through WooCommerce action and filter hooks. I have created this short list of things to demostrate what you could customize in the Product Page.

Customize WooCommerce Product Pages

The first thing you might wish to do is to display products in a different template than the default. The file single-product.php, which controls the template files that display product information on the frontend, should be loaded.

A common practice when customizing the template pages of parent themes and plugins that is often recommended is to make a copy of the template in the theme. Now make all changes in the copy only. This way, if the themes and plugins are updated, your custom changes will remain unaffected.

Several plugins and themes provide an extensive collection of custom action and filter hooks that allow changes directly into theme file(s). The good thing about all this is that you do not have to go through and modify the markup of the template files. The result is a cleaner code and no messy duplication of files.

I will use single-product.php to call template files that control the information and the format of how the product’s information will be displayed on the product page. Similarly, content-single-product.php is the product template and is modified to change the information and styling of the product page.
Now open single_template and add the following code to change the template for the Single Product page:

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by Muhammad Owais Alam via SitePoint