Open any WooCommerce variable product. The sizes, the colors, the materials — they all sit hidden inside a grey dropdown. Your shopper has to click once just to see what you sell.
That extra click costs you. Shoppers cannot compare options side by side. They cannot see that the red one is sold out until after they pick it. On a phone, the dropdown opens a native picker that covers the whole screen.
Radio buttons fix this. Every option sits on its own line, visible without a click, with a familiar circle to tick. This guide shows you two ways to get them — one with code, one with a plugin — plus the free button and color swatch options if radio turns out not to be what you want.
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