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WooCommerce Theme Development Guidelines

Official design and UX guidelines for WooCommerce theme developers submitting to the theme store.

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Field note

What it does

Covers design, layout, typography, color, patterns, accessibility, customization, branding, and demo content requirements for WooCommerce themes.

Capabilities

Available capabilities

Metadata SupportDataPluginVersionExtensionsQuery ExecutionActivationProduct Gallery FeaturesPluginsMarketplaceLanding Page GenerationVersion ControlCollapsible sectionsProduct catalogWooCommerce hooksLifecycleAPI design with Spec Hub and Collection formatNaming conventionsJavaScript SupportIntegration

Tags

Tags

GuidelinesWooCommerceTheme

Ways to use it

Ways to use it

No integrations filed yet.

Product features

Product features

Constructor

Declaring extension metadata

Handling activation and deactivation

How to design a simple extension

Implementing a singleton pattern

Initialization

Loading dependencies

Maintaining a separation of concerns

Managing extension lifecycle

Preventing data leaks

The core extension class

The main plugin file