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WooCommerce Cookbook

By : Patrick Rauland

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WooCommerce Cookbook

3.4 (12)

By: Patrick Rauland

Overview of this book

If you have ever built or managed a WordPress site and want to add e-commerce functionality into your site, WooCommerce and this book are perfect for you. Learning how to use WooCommerce through this series of recipes will give you a solid platform to add any future e-commerce needs.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. WooCommerce Basics

1. WooCommerce Basics

Introduction

Installing WooCommerce

Setting your store location and currency

Finding documentation on WooThemes.com

Installing WooCommerce plugins

Installing official WooThemes plugins

Manually creating WooCommerce pages

Creating a WooCommerce plugin

Adding a currency to WooCommerce

2. Adding Products

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Index

Opening the Terms & Conditions page in a pop-up

One of the secrets to improving your conversion rates is removing everything that isn't essential to the checkout process to keep the user on track. We can improve the checkout experience so that, when the user opens the Terms & Conditions page, it will open in a pop-up. There won't be anything that can distract them, and the only thing they can do is close the window. This should improve your conversion rates.

These distractions were a pain that I felt while using WooCommerce stores, so I built the plugin that we're going to be using in this recipe.

Getting ready

You'll need the WooCommerce Terms and Conditions Popup plugin (available on WooThemes.com) installed and activated on your store. You'll also need to have a Terms & Conditions page set in WooCommerce. See the preceding recipe for more details.

How to do it…

You don't actually have to do anything. This plugin does just one thing and it does it very well. Just by activating the...

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