Lesson 1: Maya installs ProductBay and builds her first table – WPAnchorBay Course
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Maya builds her first table

Meet Maya. Her tea shop needs one scannable page of products and prices. In this lesson you will install ProductBay and build your first table, right alongside her.

Maya runs Leaf & Bloom, a small online shop selling loose-leaf teas and a few brewing accessories. Her catalog has grown to around ninety products, and lately customers keep emailing the same thing: “Is there a page where I can just see everything and the prices together?”

Her standard shop layout makes them click into each tea, one at a time. Maya wants a single, scannable page. Today she fixes that.

You are going to do exactly what Maya did: install ProductBay and create your first product table with the guided wizard. It takes a few minutes, and you will not touch a line of code.

Open ProductBay

After installing and activating the free plugin, Maya finds ProductBay in her WordPress admin sidebar and clicks in.

The ProductBay item in the WordPress admin sidebar
Open ProductBay from the WordPress admin sidebar.

The table builder opens with a wizard, ready to create her first table.

The ProductBay create-table wizard on first open
The guided wizard greets you the first time you open ProductBay.

If the wizard does not appear, click the floating wizard button in the bottom-right corner of the screen to launch it any time.

Name it and choose products

Maya names her table and picks where its products come from. She chooses All Products for now, though she could just as easily pick a category, only on-sale items, or hand-picked products.

Naming the table and choosing a product source in the wizard
Give the table a name and choose a product source: All Products, By Category, On Sale, or Specific Products.

Finish and celebrate

She steps through the rest of the wizard, which we cover next, then hits Create Table. A little burst of confetti confirms the table is live.

The wizard finish step confirming the table was created
The finish step confirms your first table is live, confetti included.

In under five minutes, Maya went from “customers keep asking” to a real product table sitting in her store. Next, she makes it look like Leaf & Bloom.

Start where Maya started.

Install ProductBay free and build your first table while you read. It is the fastest way to learn.

Requires WooCommerce. Works on WordPress 6.8 or higher.