Categorizing and tagging

First, let’s talk about what’s possible with two of the commonly used WooCommerce organizational tools: categories and tags.

Each product in WooCommerce can have categories and tags. Categories tend to be hierarchical, while tags have a flat structure. It’s a best practice to have one category and several tags.

Here’s an example of a product’s category, and you can add tags right below it:

Figure 3.1 – The built-in product categories and product tags

You might notice that you can add multiple categories to a product, but that doesn’t mean you should. I recommend you only use one category for each product.

WooCommerce with the Storefront theme and a few other themes has a really nice breadcrumb feature that shows users where they are in the catalog. Breadcrumbs, which we’ll talk about later in this chapter, don’t work well with multiple categories.

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