Variation Swatches and Photos - WDS Features Gallery

Requirements:

In order to use the colors or photos for your products’ variations, you first need to attach those colors and photos to product attributes: Global attributes are available for your whole store, Per product attributes are only available for 1 product.

Performance:

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Safe to use. May cause a minor drop in performance.

Description

Using color and image swatches provides a much nicer way to display variations of a product, available styles, available sizes, or pretty much anything else you can display using an image or color.

Shoppers appreciate visual representations of product attributes when using your store, and it can help present a polished and clean look. WooCommerce Color and Image swatches is the answer if you are looking to edge out the competition.

The admin interface allows you define colors and images at attribute level or product level.

Variation swatches allows a product to display different images for variable products. Commonly used to showcase different colors or styles for a single product i.e shirt designs in various colors or a watch with a variety of band options, etc.

Using color and image swatches provides a much nicer way to display variations of a product, available styles, available sizes, or pretty much anything else you can display using an image or color. To see live examples and plugin in action, go to demos.

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Details & Setup

When to Use Variation Swatches and Photos

Support and Requirements

Support Scope:

We enable and configure it as needed on WooCommerce sites based on requirements of the customer

Requirements for Setup:

Installation and Configuration

Installation:

Go to: GD Core > Plugins > Variation Swatches and Photos > install
Activate the extension.

Configuration:

Set up colors and photos for global attributes

Go to: Products > Attributes.
Create a new attribute, or skip this step if you already have one.
Select the gear icon on the right next to the attribute. When you hover over this icon, you’ll see “Configure terms”
Add New Color or whatever your attribute is called (or choose to edit an existing term).
Select either “Color” or “Image” in the Swatch Type dropdown.
If you’ve chosen color, you’ll be able to click on the color icon and select the color you want to use in the color picker. Alternatively, you can type in the HEX value for the color.
If you’ve chosen image, you’ll be able to upload an image.
Select Add New Color.

Add color and image swatches to variable products

Color and photo swatches can only be used for variable products. 1. Create a variable product. Make sure that you select a global attribute or create a custom one in the “Attributes” tab. Also set up the “Variations” tab. More information about that can be found here: 2. Publish your product. 3. Go to the Swatches tab. 4. Select a “Type” for each of the attributes used for the variations.

None. The options will be offered in a dropdown.
Taxonomy Colors and Images. The options of the global attribute will be offered. (Only available for global attributes.)
Custom Colors and Images. You will be able to add colors and image swatches.
Radio Buttons. The available options will be displayed as radio buttons.

5. Choose whether to add a label or not and where to add it, if you’ve selected “Taxonomy Colors and Images” or “Custom Colors and Images”. This label will display the name of the selected term. 6. Select the size of the swatches if you’ve selected “Custom Colors and Images”. This will determine how large the swatches will be on the product page. 7. Configure the attribute terms. This is similar to how global attribute terms are configured (see above).