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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

A store in multiple languages


If you need to run a website in multiple languages, there's one major player in the market that you need to go to: WPML (https://wpml.org/). Unfortunately, WordPress does not support multilingual websites out of the box, so using plugins is always mandatory. Creating a store in multiple languages is a pretty complex process and requires you to thoroughly read the documentation provided by WPML. You'll need the Multilingual CMS plugin that is currently available from $79. Running WPML can become resource-intensive, so keep in mind that it can have consequences for your hosting plan as well:

You'll need to install several plugins offered by WPML:

  • WPML Multilingual CMS

  • WPML Translation Management

  • WPML Media

  • WPML CMS Nav

  • WMPL String translation

  • WooCommerce Multilingual

The WPML plugin offers a pretty good guide for beginners at https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/. Besides that, please also read the documentation the was made for WooCommerce users: https...