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Book Description
Create, design, and manage your own personalized online store with WooCommerce, the fastest growing e-commerce platform
In Detail
Explore the different ways an e-commerce store can be configured and select the best settings for your store, using this practical guide. We begin by introducing dozens of step-by-step recipes to configure all of the basic settings you need to open your store. You will then go into the different ways you can create products. You can then remove unnecessary elements or add extra elements to help people navigate your store. Next you'll set up shipping methods and automatically get live quotes. Finally, you'll learn how to set up different payment methods and customize the checkout.
Whether you're planning on building a WooCommerce site for yourself of for someone else you can give yourself a 10-hour headstart by reading through this book.
What You Will Learn
- Install WooCommerce and get it up and running
- Configure your products no matter how complex they are
- Customize the look and feel of your WooCommerce store
- Learn to put all of your extra code in a plugin
- Measure your conversion rate by integrating with Google Analytics
- Add customers to your newsletters automatically so that you can keep in touch with them
- Use the WooCommerce dashboard to manage your orders
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Table of Contents
- WooCommerce Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- WooCommerce Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. WooCommerce Basics
- 2. Adding Products
- Introduction
- Adding a simple product
- Adding an image gallery to a product
- Changing image sizes in WooCommerce
- Adding a downloadable file to a product
- Adding global product attributes
- Adding a variable product
- Adding an extra fee to a product with the Product Add-ons plugin
- Adding a product bundle with the Product Bundles plugin
- Bulk-uploading products with a CSV File
- Removing product tabs
- Reordering product tabs
- 3. Changing the Product Organization
- Introduction
- Changing the number of products per page
- Changing the number of columns on the Shop page
- Adding filtered navigation with the Layered Nav widget
- Making the Add to Cart button go straight to the checkout page
- Adding a custom tab to the product page
- Adding social media sharing icons to your product page
- Adding a Product Search widget
- Allowing users to search by SKU
- Adding extra sorting options on the Shop page
- Sorting products from the oldest to the most recent
- Adding a site-wide notice
- Displaying the amount saved for on-sale products
- Displaying the amount saved as a percentage
- Changing the breadcrumb separator
- 4. Running a Membership Site
- Introduction
- Adding a subscription product with the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin
- Creating pricing tables with the Easy Pricing Tables plugin
- Adding member-only pricing with the Dynamic Pricing plugin
- Displaying special pricing for logged-in users with the Conditional Content plugin
- Creating members-only content
- Creating a members-only store
- Making subscription payments more consistent
- Customizing the subscription price string
- Creating a custom subscription interval
- Exporting subscription orders
- 5. Setting Up Shipping Methods
- Introduction
- Setting a minimum order amount to unlock free shipping
- Configuring Flat Rate Shipping
- Creating shipping classes
- Getting live shipping quotes with USPS
- Creating a table of shipping rates with Table Rate Shipping
- Allowing shipping only to the continental US
- Enabling free shipping on a per product basis
- Tracking your shipments with Shipment Tracking
- Exporting orders for fulfillment to ShipStation
- 6. Getting Paid
- Introduction
- Configuring the PayPal gateway
- Configuring the Simplify Commerce gateway
- Configuring the Stripe gateway
- Enabling HTTPS on checkout
- Enabling HTTPS on specific pages
- Tracking e-commerce transactions with Google Analytics
- Creating an invoice
- Adding a fee per gateway using the Payment Gateway based Fees extension
- 7. Modifying the Checkout Process
- Introduction
- Adding a Terms & Conditions page
- Opening the Terms & Conditions page in a pop-up
- Adding a newsletter signup to the checkout page
- Adding or removing checkout fields
- Modifying the image size of related products
- Adding an Empty Cart button to the cart page
- Hiding all checkout fields for virtual products
- Adding banners to remind customers of upgrades
- Hiding the Coupon field
- Skipping the cart and going straight to checkout
- Creating a one-page checkout
- Adding a default country and state to the checkout page
- 8. Managing Orders and Taxes
- Introduction
- Sending a note to a customer
- Refunding an order
- Importing orders from another store
- Sending order information to third parties with the Advanced Notifications plugin
- Making the order numbers sequential
- Giving away products
- Manually entering tax rates
- Automatically calculating tax rates with the TaxJar plugin
- Setting a post code for correct taxation with the Local Pickup setting
- 9. WooCommerce Theming
- Introduction
- Declaring support for WooCommerce
- Displaying the accepted credit cards
- Adding a cart icon to the menu
- Overriding WooCommerce templates
- Using WooCommerce hooks
- Displaying an image on the category archive page
- Writing CSS to customize the Add to Cart button
- Creating a product slideshow
- Removing a product category from the Shop page
- 10. Exploring More with WooCommerce
- Introduction
- Enabling WooCommerce Reviews
- Hiding reviews from the Category/Shop page
- Displaying positive reviews in the product description
- Cloaking an affiliate link
- Creating a regular expression for a cloaked affiliate link
- Creating a coupon with restrictions
- Bulk-generating coupons with the Smart Coupons plugin
- Changing the default e-mail's from address
- Sending follow-up e-mails after purchase
- Index