This guide takes you from a fresh Specifico install to a working Specifications tab on your product pages in three steps. Plan on about five minutes.

You'll build a smartphone specifications table for products in your Phones category. The same flow works for any product type.

How Specifico is organized

Before you start, the three concepts you'll touch:

  • Groups are reusable sets of attributes — e.g. Display, Performance, Camera. A single group like Display can appear in many tables (phone, tablet, TV).
  • Specifications are the actual tables shown to customers. A table is a chosen list of groups.
  • Mapping decides which table appears on which product, by category, tag, or specific products.

You'll build them in that order.

Step 1 — Create a group

  1. In WP admin go to Specifico → Groups

  2. Click Add Group

  3. Enter a group name — for this example, Display

  4. Add attributes (each attribute becomes one row in the final table). For Display you might add:

    Attribute nameAttribute valueAttribute type
    Screen Size6.1 inchesText
    Resolution2532 × 1170Text
    Refresh Rate120 HzText

  5. Click Save Group

Repeat for any other groups you want — Performance, Camera, Battery, etc. Three or four groups is plenty for a useful table.

Screenshot: Groups list page with Display, Performance, Camera entries

Step 2 — Create a specification table

  1. Go to Specifico → Specifications
  2. Click Add Specification
  3. Enter a table name — Smartphone Specifications
  4. In the Groups dropdown, select the groups you just created
  5. Leave Status enabled
  6. Click Save Specification

Screenshot: Add Specification panel with title, status toggle, and groups multi-select

The table itself stores no values — it's a template that pulls attributes from its groups.

Step 3 — Map the table to products

The mapping is what makes the table actually appear on the frontend. Without a mapping, a saved table sits unused.

  1. Go to Specifico → Mapping
  2. Click Add Mapping
  3. In the new row:
    • Specifications: pick Smartphone Specifications
    • Type: pick Product Category
    • Values: pick Phones (or whatever category your phone products are in)
  4. Click Save

Screenshot: Mapping page with one row mapping Smartphone Specifications → Product Category → Phones

The four match types are:

  • Product Category — every product in the chosen category
  • Product Tag — every product with the chosen tag
  • Product — a single named product (use for one-off overrides)
  • Product ID — a single product by ID (same as Product, useful when titles are ambiguous)

Step 4 — Check the result

Open any product in the Phones category on the storefront. Below the product summary you'll see a new Specifications tab alongside Description and Reviews. Click it to see your table rendered with rows like:

// terminal
Screen Size       6.1 inches
Resolution        2532 × 1170
Refresh Rate      120 Hz

If a product isn't showing the tab:

  • Check the product is in the mapped category (or matches whichever rule type you chose)
  • Check the specification table is enabled (status toggle in step 2)
  • Check the mapping is saved — empty cells in the mapping row mean no match

Next steps

You now have a working specifications table. From here:

  • Tune the table for individual products. A smartphone in your catalog has 6.7 inches, not the default 6.1 inches? See Per-product overrides to change values for one product without affecting the group.
  • Build more tables. Each product type usually wants its own — Laptop Specifications, Headphone Specifications, etc. Groups are reusable: the same Battery group can appear in a phone table and a laptop table.
  • Customize the look. Theme styles, group sub-headings, and table density live under Specifico → Settings.