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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

Installing a WooCommerce theme


If you bought a commercial WooCommerce-compatible theme, you will have to install it through the WordPress administrative panel or upload it using FTP. Before we do so, let's first take a look at what we actually received. In almost all cases, you'll receive a ZIP file holding different folders. The content and names of the folders will differ from theme to theme. Still, it's good to have a closer look at it and get familiar with commercial theme packages.

An example of the contents of a downloaded theme can be found in the next screenshot:

Note that this is just an example, coming from a ThemeForest WooCommerce theme named The Retailer. The folder structure of this theme shows that it differs from just a regular WordPress theme. There are separate folders holding Assets, the original Photoshop files and Demo data for instance. The actual theme files we need to install the theme have been placed in the folder theme files and we first need to extract (unzip) the...