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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Book Image

WordPress 5 Cookbook

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By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress has been the most popular content management system (CMS) for many years and is now powering over 30% of all websites globally. With the demand for WordPress development and skilled developers ever-increasing, now is the best time to learn WordPress inside out. This book starts with simple recipes for configuring WordPress and managing basic platform features. You’ll then move on to explore how to install and customize WordPress plugins, widgets, and themes. The next few chapters cover recipes for content and user-management-related topics such as customizing the content display, working with content types, using the new Gutenberg editor, and customizing editorial workflow for building advanced blogs. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use WordPress as an application framework as well as a platform for building e-commerce sites. This WordPress book will also help you optimize your site to maximize visibility on search engines, add interactivity, and build a user community to make the site profitable. Finally, you’ll learn how to maintain a WordPress site smoothly while taking precautions against possible security threats. By the end of the book, you’ll have the tools and skills required to build and maintain modern WordPress websites with the latest technologies and be able to find quick solutions to common WordPress problems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Setting up an e-commerce site with WooCommerce

The setup phase of an e-commerce site is crucial for making the purchasing process simple and effective. A bad setup or purchasing flow can lead to customer dissatisfaction and losing potential sales. In the initial setup, we have to carefully plan important aspects such as shipping, payment methods, stock management, and the checkout process.

We can set up WooCommerce in two ways. The default procedure allows us to set up the site using a built-in installation wizard. Once the plugin is activated, we get the wizard that contains a custom step by step process with the most essential configurations. On the other hand, we can skip the setup wizard and set up the necessary settings manually from the backend with all the available options.

In this recipe, we will be setting up WooCommerce by manually configuring the most essential settings...