Installed Taxonomies and Post Types

Two major building blocks in the WordPress environment are installed 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 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
• Shop coupon: shop_coupon
• Shop webhook: shop_webhook