Taxonomies and Post Types
Two major building blocks in the WordPress environment are taxonomies and post types.
- Taxonomy. A grouping of post types, such as categories and tags.
- Post types. With post types, WordPress creates a distinction in different content types. For example, by default WordPress has different post types for “posts”, “pages”, “media”, etc.
WooCommerce Taxonomies and Post Types
WooCommerce creates a few different posts types and a couple of taxonomies to group those post types.
WooCommerce installs the following post types and taxonomies — the first levels are post types, and the second levels are taxonomies for their top-level post type.
- Product:
product- Product categories:
product_cat - Product tags:
product_tag - Product variation:
product_variation(these are hidden from the UI) - Product visibility:
product_visibility
- Product categories:
- Shop order:
shop_order- Order statuses:
shop_order_status - Order refunds:
shop_order_refund
- Order statuses:
- Shop coupon:
shop_coupon - Shop webhook:
shop_webhook
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