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Mastering WooCommerce - Second Edition

By : Patrick Rauland
Book Image

Mastering WooCommerce - Second Edition

By: Patrick Rauland

Overview of this book

Author Patrick Rauland is a WooCommerce expert with a deep-rooted passion for the platform. Drawing from his multifaceted experience as a customer, WooCommerce support team member, core developer, release leader, and conference planner, he presents the latest edition of this guide to help you master every facet of launching and managing a successful WooCommerce store. From initiation to seamless integration of essential components such as payments, shipping, and tax configurations, this book takes you through the entire process of establishing your online store. You’ll then customize your store's visual identity, optimizing for search engines and advanced sales management through Point of Sale (POS) systems, outsourced fulfillment solutions, and external reporting services. You’ll then advance to enhancing the user experience, streamlining reorders, and simplifying the checkout process for your customers. With this new edition, you’ll also gain insights into secure hosting and bug fixing and be prepared for updates. That’s not all; you’ll build a promotional landing page, ensure store safety, contribute to the WooCommerce community, and design custom plugins for your unique needs. By the end of this WooCommerce book, you'll emerge with the skills to run a complete WooCommerce store and customize every aspect of the store on the frontend as well as backend.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Exploring the essentials of an ECommerce Store
6
Part 2: Managing an Online Store
12
Part 3: Customizing the Appearance and Functionality of Your Store

Rearranging the product page

It’s very common for store owners to want to customize the frontend of their store. They might really like the look of the product page, but they want to rearrange certain elements.

In this section, we’re going to install a plugin to help us understand how the WooCommerce code works so that we can modify it.

As an example, let’s say we take a look at our product page, and we don’t think listing the category is important for our store. We could move that lower down the page. But how would we even begin to do that?

In the following screenshot, how do we move the product price lower down the page? Take a look:

Figure 10.14: I’d like to move the price lower down the page

Figure 10.14: I’d like to move the price lower down the page

The answer is simple but not easy. The first thing we have to do is find where this code is coming from and how it’s being displayed on the page. We could go through thousands of lines of code in WooCommerce or...