variations with unique non-selectable attributes

Any suggestions?

You don’t have to have variations for all the permutations of your attributes, just the ones you supply. However that would add a shape dropdown with only one entry which you probably don’t want.

Could you not put both words in the attributes:

red (square) | yellow (round) | blue (triangle)

Or maybe put the shape information in a table in the product description.

The “shape” attribute was just an example. In reality I have several attributes similar to it that are static or different to each variation.

Essentially it’s just production information specific to the variation but I don’t want to just put it into the description as a formatted info. I want them to be separate fields/custom attributes so I can filter and do other queries with them. Some of the information may overlap, but it doesn’t mean it’s a variation on it’s own.

For example:

RED variation

• Size: 10 x 8 x 8
• Capacity: 5 cubic inches
• Amount per skid: 1,000

YELLOW variation

• Size: 12 x 10 x 10
• Capacity: 8 cubic inches
• Amount per skid: 1,000

BLUE variation

• Size: 12 x 10 x 10
• Capacity: 8 cubic inches
• Amount per skid: 1,500

Would this be any good for your application:
https://codecanyon.net/item/woocommerce-variations-to-table-grid/10494620

I’m not sure yet, but I think what I need is to add custom FIELDS to the product variations:

https://www.remicorson.com/woocommerce-custom-fields-for-variations/

and this article has a demo of it in action:
https://blueskysessions.com/2014/03/31/woocommerce-display-dynamic-content-per-the-selected-product-variation/

So rather than add custom ATTRIBUTES, I would add custom FIELDS to each variation. I’m not sure this is the best solution yet, but so far it’s the closest to what I need to achieve.

After testing out the custom fields in variations, this is the solution I needed.

Unfortunately I had to do it manually so the code isn’t very re-usable. After the project is complete, I may spend some time and convert it to a plugin so it’s not specific to the custom theme I’m making.