Sean Conklin, WooCommerce Developer, Sean@CodedCommerce.com, (818) 835-5960

WordPress design hierarchy

01/04/2018
WordPress design hierarchy

In an earlier blog post, I wrote about Plugin Strategy to maximize the power of the core WordPress system by closely connecting functional customizations to core APIs. I’d also like to share that WordPress core – and by extension WooCommerce – cleanly optimizes design output in a very maintainable hierarchy.

The components to this design hierarchy, if you imagine them inside a pyramid from top to bottom, are:

  • CMS framework
  • Theme
  • Child theme
  • Plugins
  • Custom plugins
  • Post types
  • Pages or posts
  • Sections
  • Rows
  • Columns
  • Blocks

Popular responsive page builders (plugin or theme versions available) are Divi* + Divi Commerce, Beaver Builder*, and the Gutenberg editor (currently in beta testing for WP core). These bring a wealth of design capabilities to your sites and to WooCommerce shopping, product, cart, and checkout pages. They can in some regards provide a faster, simpler, and cacheable design tempting system that replaces the need for certain categories of plugins or extensions. They can be much more efficient that stuffing CSS code throughout your site, in both an operational sense and a code efficiency sense.

Share this

  • Mail
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • Twitter

Need help?

  • Contact us

Blog Categories

  • Events (11)
  • Marketing tips (25)
  • Official blog reposts (10)
  • Popular (10)
  • Technical tips (53)
  • Videos (12)

Code Categories

  • Back-end code snippets 5656 products
  • Cart 2020 products
  • Checkout 1919 products
  • Elementor code snippets 88 products
  • Front-end code snippets 137137 products
  • JetPack code snippets 44 products
  • Navigation menus 22 products
  • Official extension related 2626 products
  • Payments 66 products
  • Product pages 2121 products
  • Search 77 products
  • Shop and product categories 1414 products
  • Sitewide 3636 products
  • Storefront code snippets 1717 products
  • Useful functions and libraries 55 products
  • User accounts 2323 products
  • WooCommerce Code Snippets 215215 products

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Code
  • Contact
  • My account
  • Privacy policy

Copyright © 2018-2022 Coded Commerce, LLC.
Automattic Inc. owns and oversees the trademarks for Woo™ and WooCommerce®.