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How to Easily Customize Your WooCommerce Shop Page 

Written By: author avatar Stacey Corrin
author avatar Stacey Corrin
Stacey has been writing about WordPress and digital marketing for over 10 years and on other topics for much longer. Alongside this, she's fascinated with web design, user experience, and SEO.
     Reviewed By: reviewer avatar Turner John
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John Turner is the co-founder of SeedProd. He has over 20+ years of business and development experience and his plugins have been downloaded over 25 million times.

When I first set up a WooCommerce store, I was excited to start selling, but I quickly realized the default shop page felt plain and didn’t match my brand at all. It just showed a basic grid of products, and I had no idea how to customize it without hiring a developer.

If you’re in the same boat, don’t worry. WooCommerce is the most popular way to add eCommerce functionality to WordPress, and there are easy ways to make your shop page stand out without writing a single line of code.

In this guide, I’ll show you step-by-step how to:

  • Customize your WooCommerce shop layout visually
  • Organize products by category, popularity, or tags
  • Add design elements like testimonials, banners, and featured products
  • Use tools like SeedProd to build a storefront that feels like yours

These are the exact methods I used to turn my default shop page into something cleaner, more engaging, and much better at converting visitors into buyers.

What Is the WooCommerce Shop Page?

The WooCommerce shop page is the default product archive page that displays all of your store’s products. When you install WooCommerce, it automatically creates this page using your theme’s layout settings.

Think of it as your store’s main catalog or storefront. It’s where customers typically browse before clicking through to specific product pages.

By default, the shop page pulls content from your product listings and displays:

  • Product images
  • Titles and short descriptions
  • Prices
  • Product categories and tags
  • Star ratings and reviews (if enabled)

It’s generated dynamically using your WordPress theme and the WooCommerce template files, and it can be customized to match your brand and improve conversions.

default woocommerce shop page

A well-designed shop page can help visitors quickly find what they’re looking for, reduce friction in the buying process, and increase sales. That’s why customizing the default WooCommerce shop page layout is so important.

Why Should You Customize the WooCommerce Shop Page?

Imagine walking into a physical store where all the products are randomly scattered on shelves. No signs, no categories, no featured items. You’d probably walk out fast.

That’s exactly what many shoppers experience when they land on a default WooCommerce shop page. It shows all your products in a plain grid, with little context or direction. This can lead to high bounce rates and missed sales opportunities.

Customizing your shop page helps you:

  • Improve user experience (UX) by making it easier for customers to find what they want
  • Increase conversions by highlighting bestsellers, sales, or high-margin products
  • Improve SEO by adding keyword-rich content and schema markup
  • Lower bounce rates by offering better navigation and visual hierarchy
  • Build brand trust with testimonials, reviews, or user-generated content

A well-optimized WooCommerce shop layout is a critical part of turning visitors into buyers.

How to Customize WooCommerce Shop Page in WordPress

There are several ways to customize your shop page in WordPress. You could use a WooCommerce plugin, page builders, or code the customizations from scratch.

Because Iwant to keep this tutorial as simple as possible, I’ll focus on 2 of the easiest ways to customize WooCommerce pages.

The first method will use a powerful WordPress website builder plugin that’s easy to use and packed with customization options. Then I’ll show you how to use the WooCommerce customizer to change the layout of your shop page.

Method 1: Use SeedProd to Customize WooCommerce Shop Page

We’ll use SeedProd to add customizations to your online store for the first method.

SeedProd Drag-and-drop WordPress website builder

SeedProd is the best website builder for WordPress, with over 1 million users. It lets you create custom WordPress themes, high converting landing pages, and responsive website layouts without code.

This powerful plugin also allows you to create entire online stores with its WooCommerce integration. As a result, you can make and customize your WooCommerce shop page, product pages, shopping cart, checkout, and more with just a few clicks.

SeedProd comes with 150+ professional themes and templates to create your website. From there, you can customize your design with easy-to-use content blocks and sections.

Follow these steps to customize your WooCommerce shop page with SeedProd.

Step 1. Install SeedProd Website Builder

The first step is downloading a copy of the SeedProd website builder plugin.

Note: SeedProd offers a free version to build simple landing pages. However, we’ll use the SeedProd Elite plan for the WooCommerce features we need.

You’ll need to install SeedProd on your WordPress website next. You can follow these instructions for installing a WordPress plugin if you need help.

After installing and activating SeedProd, go to SeedProd » Settings and enter your plugin license key.

enter your license key

You can find your license key by logging into the SeedProd website and copying it from the ‘Downloads’ section.

Find your SeedProd license key

Enter your license key and click the Verify Key button before moving on to the next step.

Step 2. Create a Custom WooCommerce Theme

We’ll use SeedProd’s theme builder feature to customize your WooCommerce shop page. It will override your existing WordPress theme, replacing it with your customizations.

You can find it by going to SeedProd » Theme Builder from your WordPress dashboard.

SeedProd theme builder

There are 2 ways to create your eCommerce theme with SeedProd:

  1. Create each part (template) of your theme individually
  2. Create all of your theme templates with a pre-made WordPress theme template

We’ll use the 2nd option for this tutorial because it automatically makes every part of your WooCommerce website.

Click the Themes button at the top of your screen to launch SeedProd’s theme templates gallery. You can choose from many themes, including designs for online stores.

add a theme template

We’ll go with the ‘Furniture Store’ theme for this tutorial.

To import the theme, hover over the thumbnail and click the checkmark icon.

Choose a custom SeedProd woocommerce theme

As you can see in the screenshot below, SeedProd will create all of the templates for your theme automatically, including:

SeedProd theme builder template parts

You can customize each template with SeedProd’s drag-and-drop builder. We’ll show you how to customize the shop page template in step 3.

Step 3. Customize WooCommerce Shop Page

To customize your WooCommerce shop page with SeedProd, hover over the ‘Shop Page’ template and click the Edit Design link.

Edit WooCommerce shop page design

After clicking the link, your shop page template will open in SeedProd’s visual drag-and-drop page builder.

On the left are blocks and sections you can add to your page. You can see a preview of how your page looks in real-time on the right.

WooCommerce shop page drag and drop builder

Your shop page will show a list of all your products by default. However, you can change that easily by adding new layouts, content blocks, and sections.

Let’s say you want to add a scrolling banner showcasing a sale or promotion. In that case, you can drag over the Image Carousel block and upload custom banner images.

SeedProd image carousel block

You can then customize your carousel in the block settings by changing it to a dark or light theme, auto-playing the slider, and showing the image captions.

Image carousel block settings seedprod

What if you want to highlight your featured products or best-selling products? To do that, add a new section to your page, then scroll down to the WooCommerce blocks panel and drag the Best Selling Products block onto your page.

SeedProd best selling products grid

This block will display your top-selling products in a uniform grid.

WooCommerce best selling products grid

You can make this new page section stand out more by giving it a custom background color.

Section custom background color

Then in the Best Selling Products block Advanced Settings, you can change the color, typography, and add to cart buttons.

Product grid advanced settings

You can also display products by category with SeedProd’s WooCommerce block. To do that, drag over the Product Grids block, change the ‘Query Type’ to Custom Query and click the Select by Category option.

WooCommerce product category grid

From there, you can choose which categories to include in the product grid.

Some other blocks you can add to your shop page include:

  • Testimonials to boost trust and credibility
  • Countdown timers to create urgency for your sale
  • Accordion to display frequently asked questions
  • Facebook or Twitter embeds to display user-generated content

You can even easily change your WooCommerce shop page title.

When you’re happy with your shop page, click the green Save button in the top right corner of your screen.

Save your custom woocommerce shop page

You can now follow the same process to customize the other parts of your WooCommerce store. Simply click ‘Edit Design’ on any of your theme templates and customize the layout and styling to suit your brand.

Step 4. Publish Your Custom Shop Page

When your WooCommerce site looks how you want, it’s time to make it live. To do that, go to SeedProd » Theme Builder, and in the top-right corner, turn the ‘Enable SeedProd Theme’ toggle to the ‘Yes’ position.

enable seedprod theme

Now you can preview your WooCommerce shop page live on your website.

customize woocommerce shop page

Method 2: Customize WooCommerce Shop Page Using Theme Customizer

If you prefer not to use a third-party builder, WooCommerce includes basic customization options via the WordPress Customizer.

The customization options you see will depend on the WordPress theme you use on your website. We’re using the default Twenty Twenty-Two theme for this guide.

To customize your shop page with the customizer, click Appearance » Customize from your WordPress dashboard. From there, click WooCommerce  » Product Catalog to see the customization options.

Next, click the ‘Shop page display’ dropdown menu and choose a layout.

For example, you can choose ‘Show categories’ to show only your product categories on the shop page.

Customize woocommerce shop page with woocommerce customizer

Or you can choose ‘Show products’ to show only products.

Alternatively, you can display your product categories first, then a grid of products with the ‘Show categories and products’ option.

show products and categories on woocommerce shop page

Additionally, you can show products by:

You can also choose how many products per row and rows to display on each page.

Choose how many products per row to display on your WooCommerce shop page

Remember to publish your changes when you’re happy with your design. Here’s a preview of a shop page we styled using the WooCommerce Customizer.

how to customize woocommerce shop page with WordPress WooCommerce customizer

FAQ: Customizing the WooCommerce Shop Page

Can I customize the WooCommerce shop page without coding?
Yes. You can customize the WooCommerce shop page without writing code using tools like SeedProd (a drag-and-drop builder) or the built-in WooCommerce Customizer.
Why should I customize the shop page layout?
Customizing your shop layout helps improve user experience, boost conversions, reduce bounce rates, and support SEO by highlighting bestsellers, product categories, and keyword-rich content.
Will customizing the shop page affect SEO?
Yes — positively, if done right. Adding structured content, keyword-optimized headings, internal links, and schema markup can improve your shop page’s visibility in search engines and AI search tools.
What tools can I use to customize the shop page?
Popular options include:

SeedProd – a no-code drag-and-drop builder with WooCommerce integration
WooCommerce Customizer – lets you modify layouts directly in the WordPress Customizer
Elementor or Divi (optional) – other visual page builders with WooCommerce support

I hope this article helped you learn how to customize the WooCommerce Shop page.

As you can see, SeedProd makes it super easy to create a unique and user-friendly WooCommerce site without needing any prior design experience or code. It’s as simple as pointing and clicking, with stunning results potential customers will love.

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Stacey Corrin Writer
Stacey has been writing about WordPress and digital marketing for over 10 years and on other topics for much longer. Alongside this, she's fascinated with web design, user experience, and SEO.

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