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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce - Second Edition

By : Robbert Ravensbergen
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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce - Second Edition

By: Robbert Ravensbergen

Overview of this book

Building an online store is often considered to be a difficult, complex task. Using the combination of WordPress and the WooCommerce plugin, this is no longer the case. WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce platform for WordPress and is being rapidly developed by WooThemes. It provides a strong e-commerce solution to set up your own online store in just a couple of hours. This easy and practical book will help you make the most of WooCommerce to be able to set up and run your online store yourself. Installing WooCommerce is an easy task, but this book will explain in detail all the possible settings. After that you'll be adding products, different payment methods, and shipping solutions to your store. You will then customize your store by adding themes to change the look and feel. Once your store is running, you'll learn how to use discount coupons, process your orders, look at reports, and even expand the functionality further with additional plugins. By the end of the book, you will learn everything you need to add a fully functional online store to you WordPress website and start running an online business.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using attributes


At first glance, attributes look like tags when we're accessing the function using the menu, Products | Attributes:

However, there is an important difference between Attributes and Categories. Attributes deliver a powerful mechanism to create different kinds of products. Besides that, working with Attributes is often smarter than working with Categories alone. Categories are used to organize entire products, whereas Attributes are a way of organizing product properties. Let's start with an example to clarify this.

Our simple product that we created earlier (the Brown Women's Belt) could easily be put in a category structure like: Women | Accessories | Belts. But that would give us all available belts in your store, right? And not just the brown ones. Ok, so we'll add another category for that! But no, although it is possible, it's not the best way to do it. Using Attributes in such a situation for the color is much more powerful. It will give your visitors the possibility...