After finishing your theme installation, additional plugin is required for installation — WooCommerce Lookbook. After installation and activation of plugin, new WP admin menu item will appear «Lookbook» — «Lookbook», «Add new», «Lookbook categories».
Lookbook post type is created to work together with WooCommerce plugin installed. Lookbook item (lookbook single post) links individual WC products — a products which share similar concept or purpose.
Perhaps the best usage would be to make a showcase of clothing products that are wearable well toghether.
Perhaps the best usage would be to make a showcase of clothing products that are wearable well toghether.
Some examples of lookbook item contents:
- Lookbook item: Featured image with model wearing dress, purse, shirt, hat…
— Linked single products: dress, purse, shoes, shirt, hat - Lookbook item: Toys package
— Linked single products: individual toys from the package for single sales.
Adding a lookbook item
- Lookbook categories — recommended to add categories, before adding any new lookbook item
- In WP admin menu go to Lookbook > Add New Item
- Set title featured image, and description excerpt (optionally)
- select lookbook category (required)
- Select linked woocommerce products (in «Lookbook settings» meta box, bellow main editor):
- Drag products from right «List of all available products» box to left «Selected products» box
- To remove products from «Selected products» simply drag back to «List of all available products»
- Check the «Hide lookbook item title» if you don’t want to display title
Creating a lookbook page
- In WP admin menu:
- go to Pages > Add new — add title, select featured image (optionally)
- select «Lookbook page» page template (in «Page attributes» meta box) and save page
- in «Lookbook page settings» meta box (bellow the main editor) set the following options:
- Lookbook categories — choose lookbook categories from which to display items
- Number of lookbook items
- Number of items in a row (or items columns)
- Main lookbook image format — image format for main lookbook image