Important: WooCommerce is a required plugin for both the Listify and Jobify themes to function properly. It handles key user-facing features such as account creation, login, and management pages—ensuring a seamless experience for your site visitors and listing submitters.

Why WooCommerce Is Required

Both Listify and Jobify use WooCommerce to power essential account and transactional pages such as:

• My Account – A central hub where users can manage their profile, listings, and settings.
• Registration & Login – WooCommerce handles secure user registration and login processes.
• Checkout & Billing – If you’re using paid listings or premium features, WooCommerce provides the payment infrastructure.

Even if you’re not selling products, WooCommerce is still needed to handle user flows and listing submissions properly. Disabling or not installing WooCommerce will result in missing functionality across these themes.

Installing WooCommerce

Automatic Installation

This is the easiest method, managed directly from your WordPress dashboard:

1. Log in to your WordPress admin dashboard.
2. Navigate to Plugins > Add New.
3. Search for “WooCommerce” in the plugin search bar.
4. Click Install Now, then Activate.

You can view the plugin listing and installation notes here: WooCommerce Plugin Page.

Manual Installation

If needed, you can manually install WooCommerce:

1. Download the plugin from the official WordPress.org repository.
2. Upload it to your server via FTP to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Go to your WordPress dashboard and activate WooCommerce from the Plugins screen.

More detailed instructions are available here: WordPress Codex: Manual Plugin Installation.

Updating WooCommerce

WooCommerce supports automatic updates. Be sure to back up your site before performing any update. If you run into layout or page issues afterward, you can usually fix this by re-saving your permalinks:

1. Go to Settings > Permalinks in your WordPress dashboard.
2. Click Save Changes without modifying any settings to flush the permalink cache.

Outdated WooCommerce Template File Warning

If you are using the Listify or Jobify themes with WooCommerce, you may occasionally see the following warning in your WordPress admin panel:

Your theme (Listify Child / Jobify Child) contains outdated copies of some WooCommerce template files. These files may need updating to ensure they are compatible with the current version of WooCommerce.

Suggestions to fix this:

• Update your theme to the latest version.
• If no update is available, contact your theme author asking about compatibility with the current WooCommerce version.
• If you copied over a template file to change something, then you will need to copy the new version of the template and apply your changes again.

To learn more, visit the official article from Astoundify:
Outdated WooCommerce Template Files Warning

Using Dummy Data

WooCommerce includes optional demo content for testing or design purposes:

• Use the WordPress Importer plugin to import dummy_data.xml.
• Alternatively, use the Product CSV Import Suite to import dummy_data.csv and dummy_data_variations.csv.

Final Notes

Installing and activating WooCommerce is essential when using Listify or Jobify. It does not only power eCommerce features—it also ensures critical account-related pages and submission forms operate correctly. Skipping this step may break or disable major theme functions.