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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

About the Reviewers

Matthew Allan works with a growing team of developers at Prospress to bring top-notch plugins and extensions to the WordPress and WooCommerce platforms. Some of Prospress' most well-known extensions are WooCommerce Subscriptions and WooCommerce One Page Checkout—both available from woothemes.com.

Over the past 3 years, Matthew has been reviewing WooCommerce books and developing new software for entrepreneurs wanting to jump into the e-commerce world and start selling online. Matt's experience in developing and supporting premium extensions for WooCommerce has informed his technical review for this book.

Rémi Corson built his first website in high school, where, after a few months, he realized he was teaching web languages to his own teacher. Then, he decided to build his own content management system called PHPforge, which was used by more than 5,000 users at that time. He finally switched to WordPress a few years later.

Formerly in the top ten of CodeCanyon's best sellers, the largest code-related marketplace on the planet, Remi worked on Easy Digital Downloads' early versions with Pippin Williamson, and joined WooThemes as a Happiness Engineer in 2013 before the acquisition by Automattic in 2015.

Rémi is a public speaker and code expert. He works on WooCommerce core code on a daily basis and he built/refactored many official add-ons. He was also involved in the first WooConf organization in San-Francisco in 2014, the major WooCommerce-related event. Rémi writes weekly posts on his blog, mainly about WooCommerce, and provides a lot of free plugins and snippets.

He is also passionate about woodworking, surfing, and video making, and is a great guitar player.

Nicola Mustone is a web developer based in Italy, where he studied economy and programming. He developed his first website at the age of 15. Since then, he fell in love with programming and web developing, so he started studying it in depth, improving his skill set.

He started working as a freelancer at the age of 19. In 2011, he accepted his first job at a local web agency.

In 2012, Nicola moved from his birth city, Lucera, to Acireale in Sicily to work with Your Inspiration where he learned about WordPress in its entirety, from end user usage to themes and plugins development. Working at Your Inspiration, he specialized in WordPress development and customer support.

In October 2014, he started working for WooThemes, and in June 2015, Automattic acquired WooThemes. He is currently an automattician working in the WooCommerce support team as an Internal Support Ninja. Nicola also writes articles and tutorials regularly to help customers understand WooCommerce and WordPress better.