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”, “attachments”, etc.
WooCommerce creates a few different posts types and a couple of taxonomies to group those post types.
WooCommerce taxonomies and 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 categories:
- Product variation:
product_variation(these are hidden from the UI) - Product visibility:
product_visibility - Shop order:
shop_order- Order statuses:
shop_order_status - Order refunds:
shop_order_refund
- Order statuses:
- Shop coupon:
shop_coupon - Shop webhook:
shop_webhook