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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

Creating Plugins for WooCommerce

Ultimately, WooCommerce is a flexible platform not because of the thousands of existing plugins but because you can code your own plugins. You can customize every single line of WordPress and WooCommerce, which means you can literally change anything. Nothing is impossible. It’s just a question of how much time you want to invest in coding a solution. It’s incredibly powerful for a business.

Becoming a WooCommerce developer could be its own series of books, but we will start by looking at how you can customize a WooCommerce plugin.

We’re going to build a basic WooCommerce plugin, look into building integration with WooCommerce, and then customize the edit product page.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Building a basic WooCommerce plugin
  • Customizing order statuses
  • Building a settings page with WooCommerce

By the end of this chapter, you should know the basics of building a plugin...