Create a WooCommerce Store Design Kit in Theme Assistant

Outcome

By the end of this tutorial, you will know how to use SophMate for WooCommerce design kit while keeping the work reviewable inside WordPress.

Scenario

An agency wants consistent product cards, buttons, spacing, and checkout helper styling across a client WooCommerce store.

What the image shows

The tutorial image shows Theme Assistant context: live preview, design controls, responsive review, and presentation-oriented workflow areas for visual changes.

Before you begin

• Confirm SophMate is active and the relevant module is available to your user role.
• Check provider, budget, and approval settings before asking SophMate to draft or execute work.
• Keep customer data, API keys, and private credentials out of prompts unless the workflow is explicitly designed to handle that context.

Guardrail

Use scoped CSS, responsive checks, accessibility review, and history notes before publishing visual changes.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Approving CSS after checking only the desktop preview.
• Using broad selectors that affect unrelated templates, checkout states, or mobile layouts.
• Skipping accessibility notes because the change looks visually small.

Step 1: Pick representative pages

Include homepage, shop archive, product detail, cart, checkout, and account pages. A design kit based only on the homepage misses commerce states.

Step 2: Collect current tokens

Use the Tokens panel to record colors, typography, spacing, radius, and component patterns already used by the theme.

Step 3: Ask for kit recommendations

Have Theme Assistant propose product-card, button, notice, and checkout helper rules that fit the existing theme rather than replacing it.

Step 4: Test on commerce pages

Apply draft CSS to product lists, single products, cart, checkout, and account areas in preview. Check product sale badges and empty states.

Step 5: Export presentation notes

Turn the design kit into a client explanation: what changed, where it applies, and what should not be edited manually.

Review checklist

• Representative WooCommerce pages are included.
• Tokens are consistent.
• Checkout and cart states are reviewed.

Success signal

The Theme Assistant workflow is successful when the change is scoped, reviewed at key breakpoints, accessibility concerns are documented, and the team can revert or explain the CSS history.

What to document

Document target page, selector or component family, desktop/tablet/mobile checks, accessibility notes, CSS history label, and approval status.

Owner and cadence

A designer owns visual intent, while the site owner or developer owns production impact. Review every meaningful CSS change before publishing.

Escalate when

Escalate when CSS affects checkout, account, accessibility, mobile navigation, or theme structure beyond the intended visual scope.

Related SophMate paths

• Features/Theme Assistant
• Use Cases/Wordpress Theme Design Ai Assistant

Next action

Run this workflow on a low-risk example first. Once the result is easy to review and explain, decide whether it should become a repeatable playbook, workflow, watcher, agent, or documented team process.