Category: Woocommerce

Would you like to customize your WooCommerce product search results page?

By default, WordPress and WooCommerce have limited search capabilities. By customizing your product search results, you’ll be able to increase sales and grow your business.

In this article, we’ll show a few easy ways you can customize your WooCommerce product search results page to provide a better user experience.

Why Customize WooCommerce Product Search Results Page?

By default, WooCommerce comes with a built in product search feature. However, it has serious limitations. This could mean that your customers won’t be able to find the products they’re looking for.

As a result, you may be losing potential sales. If your customers can’t find what they’re looking for, then they may not come back to your online store.

How does this happen? The default WooCommerce search only indexes the title, content, and excerpt of posts and pages. It doesn’t consider any content within custom fields while performing a search.

That’s a problem because a great deal of your WooCommerce product data is stored in custom fields. As a result, none of your WooCommerce product categories, tags, reviews, and other special attributes will be indexed.

Luckily, you can solve this problem using a WooCommerce product search plugin.

That being said, let’s take a look at some examples of how you might improve your WooCommerce product search results page.

Here is what you will learn from this guide. You can click the link to skip ahead to the section you’re interested in.

• Making WooCommerce product data searchable
• Customizing which products will be displayed on search results pages
• Displaying product search results in live mode
• Finding partial matches and other advanced features

Making WooCommerce Product Data Searchable

The first thing you need to do is install and activate the SearchWP plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

SearchWP is the best custom search plugin for WordPress, and is used by over 30,000 websites. It’s also one of the best plugins for WooCommerce because it delivers more relevant product results to your customers.

Upon activation, you need to visit the SearchWP » Settings page and switch to the ‘Support’ tab to enter your license key. You can find it in your account area on the SearchWP site.

Next, you need to install and activate the WooCommerce Integration extension.

You can download it from your account area on the SearchWP website and install it as you would install any other WordPress plugin.

Now you are ready to set up your SearchWP custom search engine.

Simply go to the SearchWP » Settings page and make sure you’re on the ‘Engines’ tab. Once there, you need to click the ‘Sources & Settings’ button.

This will bring up a popup where you should make sure the checkbox next to ‘Products’ is checked. This will allow SearchWP to index your WooCommerce products.

WooCommerce product reviews are stored as comments. If you want to make reviews searchable, then you should also check the ‘Comments’ box.

Once you’ve done that, click on the ‘Done’ button to close the popup.

Now you need to scroll down to the ‘Products’ section. Notice that by default, the plugin will only look at the product title, content (description), slug, and excerpt (short description).

You can extend SearchWP’s reach by clicking on the ‘Add/Remove Attributes’ button.

This will bring up a popup where you can include specific custom fields and taxonomies in searches. For this tutorial, we’ve added the ‘color’ and ‘size’ custom fields, and the taxonomies ‘product categories’ and ‘product tags’.

You can now click the ‘Done’ button, and you should notice that those custom fields and taxonomies have been added to the products section of SearchWP.

After that, you can adjust the weight of each attribute. If you’d like to make a specific attribute more important in search results, then simply move the slider to the right.

When you’re done, go ahead and click on the ‘Save Engines’ button at the top of the screen to save your settings.

SearchWP will then start rebuilding your search index in the background. After that, the plugin will be ready to start delivering more relevant search results to your WooCommerce store.

SearchWP will automatically use any search forms on your online store. However, if you need to add a search form, then see our step by step guide on how to create a custom WordPress search form. This will also teach you how to style the results page using custom CSS.

Now you can go to your WooCommerce store to try out the search feature. We’ll search for the product category ‘hoodies’, and all products in that category will be displayed.

To learn more, see our guide on how to make a smart WooCommerce product search.

Customizing Which Products Will Be Shown on Search Results Pages

By default, SearchWP will include all of the products in your online store in the search results. However, you may wish to specify which products should or should not be displayed.

For example, you can automatically exclude products if they fall under certain conditions, like if they are discontinued or out of stock. Or you might only display products that are on sale or come with free shipping.

For example, the AeroPress WooCommerce store lets you search for products with free shipping. This is a great incentive for customers to make a purchase.

To get started, you should click the ‘Edit Rules’ button in SearchWP’s Products section.

Right now there are no rules. You can create as many rules as you need.

To create your first rule, you need to click the ‘Add Rule’ button.

Now you can specify the conditions for which products should be shown or excluded from search results. For this tutorial, we’ll exclude all out of stock products.

First, you should select ‘Exclude entries if’ from the first drop down menu. Then select the ‘Product visibility’ taxonomy and type ‘outofstock’ in the field next to it.

If you like, you can add additional conditions that should be excluded by clicking the ‘OR’ button. Once you’re finished adding rules, click the ‘Done’ button.

Now all you need to do is press the ‘Save Engines’ button at the top to store your changes.

To learn about more ways you can make use of SearchWP’s rules, see our guide on how to exclude specific pages, authors, and more from WordPress search.

Displaying Product Search Results in Live Mode

Live search will improve the search experience on your WooCommerce store by automatically showing search results as your customers type their queries.

For example, Good Dye Young offers live search results on their hair and makeup products.

Relevant products and articles are immediately displayed while the customer types their search query, providing a better user experience.

To add this to your own store, all you need to do is install and activate the free SearchWP Live Ajax Lite Search plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, your WooCommerce search forms will automatically provide live search.

For more details, see our guide on how to add live search to your WordPress site.

Finding Partial Matches and Other Advanced Features

Partial matching will help your customers to find what they are searching for, even if they don’t type the whole word or use the correct spelling.

For example, the Magna-Tiles online store has partial matching enabled. Customers only need to type part of a product name to find it in the search results.

To enable partial matching in SearchWP, you should navigate to SearchWP » Settings and click on the Advanced tab.

On this page, you can enable some settings that will make it easier for your users to find what they are looking for.

Check any of these options that you would like:

• Partial matches will also display results that don’t quite match the term that is being searched for.
• Automatic “Did you mean?” corrections will suggest a slightly different search term that will match more products in your online store.
• Supporting “quoted/phrase searches” will allow your users to use quotes when searching for exact phrases.
• Highlighting terms in results will make it easier for your customers to find what they are looking for in the search results.

We hope this tutorial helped you learn how to customize the WooCommerce product search results page. You may also want to learn how to add wholesale pricing in WooCommerce, or check out our list of the best email marketing services.

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Do you want to change the shop page title in WooCommerce?

By default, your main shop page is simply called ‘Shop’. You may want to change the default title to be more descriptive and engaging, and better reflect your brand.

In this article, we’ll show you how to change the WooCommerce shop page title easily.

Why Change the Shop Page Title in WooCommerce?

When you install WooCommerce, it will automatically create pages like your shop page, account page, checkout page, and more.

By default, the shop page title will be ‘Shop’, but you can change this to anything you want, like ‘Boutique’ or ‘Store’ or something more detailed and descriptive. Overall, this can help create a better shopping experience and help build trust with your visitors.

Customizing your shop page title can also help your WooCommerce search engine optimization. Google and other search engines look at the words used in page titles to determine how to rank them in search results. If your shop page title is more descriptive, it can help you get more traffic to your online store.

With that said, let’s show you how to easily change the WooCommerce shop page title. Simply use the quick links below to jump straight to the method you want to use.

• Changing shop page title with built-in WordPress settings
• Changing shop page title by adding code to WordPress
• Changing the shop page SEO title with a WordPress plugin

Method 1: Changing the WooCommerce Shop Page Title with Built-in WordPress Settings

The easiest and most beginner friendly way to change the shop page title in your online store is by using the built-in settings.

To change the title of your shop page, simply go to Pages » All Pages. You’ll need to find the page that says ‘Shop – Shop Page’ and then hover over it and click the ‘Edit’ button.

From here, you can enter a new page title at the top of the page.

Make sure to click the ‘Update’ button to save your changes.

Now, you can visit your shop page, and you’ll see your new shop page title live.

Changing your shop page title this way will update your breadcrumbs and navigation menu too.

Method 2: Changing the WooCommerce Shop Page Title by Adding Code to WordPress

Some WooCommerce themes might not give you the option to change your shop page title.

To do this, you’ll need to add code to WordPress. If you haven’t done this before, then see our guide on how to copy and paste code in WordPress.

Then, you can add the following code snippet to your functions.php file, in a site-specific plugin, or by using a code snippets plugin. 

add_filter( 'woocommerce_page_title', 'new_woocommerce_page_title');
 
function new_woocommerce_page_title( $page_title ) {
 
  if( $page_title == 'Shop' ) {
 
    return "New Shop Title";
 
  }
 
}

Make sure you replace the ‘New Shop Title’ with your own shop page title in the snippet above.

Now, you can visit your online shop page to see your new title live. You’ll notice this method doesn’t change the shop page URL or WooCommerce breadcrumbs, but only changes the title on the page itself.

Method 3: Changing the WooCommerce Shop Page SEO Title with a WordPress Plugin

Another way to change your WooCommerce shop page title is by changing the shop title that shows up in the search engines, which is called the SEO title or title tag.

This can be a great way to get more traffic and target more relevant keywords related to your online store.

The easiest way to do this is by using the AIOSEO plugin. It’s the best WordPress SEO plugin in the market used by over 3 million websites. 

You can use the plugin easily optimize your SEO title to improve your search engine rankings.

For more details on setting up the plugin, see our guide on how to setup All in One SEO for WordPress correctly.

After that, you can easily change your shop page SEO title by opening up your shop page and scrolling down to the ‘AIOSEO Settings’ box beneath the page editor.

You can use smart tags to automatically generate the shop page title, or enter a custom title instead.

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It’s a drag & drop design builder that lets you customize every Aspect of your WooCommerce store.

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