Enable woocommerce single product gallery for WC 3.0.0

I have just updated a client’s woocommerce to 3.0.0 and suddenly the gallery function was gone. So we need to enable woocmmerce single product gallery.

Good news!!!; the new gallery has 3 separate features, that you can enable individually:

  • Lightbox
  • Slider
  • Image zoom / magnification

If you have a custom theme or your theme is not fully compatible with woocommerce you have to add theme support.

Open your functions.php file in your theme (if you are using a commercial theme, make sure you do this in a child theme, otherwise it will be lost in your next theme update) and add the following code;

function themename_wc_support() {
add_theme_support( 'wc-product-gallery-zoom' );
add_theme_support( 'wc-product-gallery-lightbox' );
add_theme_support( 'wc-product-gallery-slider' );
}

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'themename_wc_support' );

update themename with your theme name and this should do the trick.

You might need to update your css if you see thumbnails without margin.

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