WooCommerce

Academia ships WooCommerce templates, so you can sell alongside the course catalogue without a second theme. Activate WooCommerce and the shop works; there is nothing to configure in the theme.

What is styled

Woo's own notices, variation selectors and quantity fields inherit Academia's type, colour and form styling.

Courses versus products

They are different things and Academia keeps them separate:

• Courses are Academia's own content — a catalogue people browse, filter and read about. A course page's enrolment button can point anywhere.
• Products are WooCommerce — a cart, a checkout and an order.

To sell a course place, make a Woo product and point the course's enrolment button at it. That keeps the course page as the thing people read and the product as the thing they buy, which is usually what you want: a course described once and sold in several forms — full price, early bird, a place for an employer to buy.

One thing worth knowing

WooCommerce sizes its product grid with auto-fill against its own 1.25em gap, so a theme that widens that gap silently drops the grid from three columns to two. Academia sets the tracks explicitly and steps them 3 → 2 → 1, which is why the shop matches the rest of the site rather than Woo's defaults.

The header

With WooCommerce active, Woo adds cart and account icons to the header. The header row is a single line by contract, and below 600px its children are allowed to shrink so those icons plus a long call-to-action label never push the button off screen.