Custom product tabs that stay where you put them

WooCommerce gives every product three tabs: Description, Additional information and Reviews. Shops usually need more — a size guide, shipping and returns, care instructions, warranty terms, manufacturer details. Product Tabs Studio adds those tabs and decides which products they appear on.

• Shops that outgrew the Description tab. Specifications, shipping terms and care instructions belong in their own tabs, not at the bottom of one long description.
• Shops that need the same tab on many products. One global tab with a category or brand rule replaces the same text copied into hundreds of products.
• Shops on a tab plugin that is no longer maintained. The read-only adapters keep the storefront intact while you move at your own pace.
• Agencies and developers. Shortcodes, filters, template overrides in the theme, a system report to paste into a ticket, and JSON export and import between staging and production.

Product tabs disappearing after a product save is the most common failure in this category, and it has a mundane cause: PHP silently truncates large forms at max_input_vars, and a plugin that writes whatever arrived overwrites good data with nothing.

Product Tabs Studio counts the rows it rendered and compares them with the rows that arrived. If the form is incomplete, nothing is written and you get a notice that names the PHP setting and how to raise it. Every product also keeps its last five versions of tabs, restorable from the product editor. Quick edit, bulk edit, the WooCommerce CSV importer, the REST API and the block product editor never reach the tab meta at all, so they cannot clear it.

A global tab is a piece of content plus a rule about where it appears. Rules combine categories (optionally including subcategories), tags, brands, specific products and product types, with an include list, an exclude list and a match mode of any or all. Brand rules work with WooCommerce Brands, Perfect Brands and YITH Brands.

A single product can still hide a global tab or replace its content locally, without changing the global tab that other products use.

Activate the plugin and deactivate your old tab plugin: your tabs are read directly from where they already are, with their existing order, keys and CSS classes. That is enough to keep the storefront working; there is no migration step you have to complete first.

Importing the data into native storage is a separate, optional choice: dry run first, then migrate, then verify (the two renderings are compared tab by tab), and roll back if you disagree with the result. The other plugin's data is never modified by any of these steps.

Description, Additional information and Reviews keep the priorities WooCommerce gives them unless you move them yourself on the Tab order screen. There you can also rename or hide them, and a Reset button returns all three to the WooCommerce defaults.

New custom tabs are placed before Reviews by default. You can move that slot to the top, after the Description or after all other tabs.

More about tab order and the default tabs

The EU General Product Safety Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/988) asks online shops to show the manufacturer's name, address and electronic contact with the product offer, and, for goods made outside the EU, the EU responsible person.

The plugin ships a small template library that includes "Manufacturer information (GPSR)" and "EU responsible person", alongside templates for size guides, care instructions, shipping and returns, warranty and safety information. Create one global tab per brand or category, insert the template, fill in your details and set the rule. Everything here is in the free plugin. Filling brand fields in once and having them appear on every product of that brand is a planned Pro feature.

The plugin is free and complete. There is no trial, no feature that stops working, and no account to create.

A paid tier, Product Tabs Studio Pro, is in development for shops that manage tabs at catalogue scale. It cannot be bought yet; the pricing page says what it will add and has a waiting list.