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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

Adding a video tab

People like to consume information in a variety of ways. Some people like reading text and images, others like word of mouth and talking about a product, and others still prefer a video that’s fully engaging for a few minutes and describes the product in detail. Most of us like some combination of these at different times for different products.

In this section, we’re going to add a video tab to our product page so that there’s a designated place for it – out of the way but easy to navigate.

We’re going to start by installing the video tab and then move on to customizing it.

Installing a video tab

There are a number of plugins that let you add videos to your WooCommerce page, many of which are free. In a previous chapter, we installed Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce. You are free to reuse that plugin.

I’ve chosen to install WooCommerce Product Tabs (https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-product-tabs...