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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

Next Steps with WooCommerce

We’ve built and customized every aspect of an e-commerce business built on top of WooCommerce. In this chapter, I want to provide you with three ways you can continue to develop your skills. All of these are important topics in very different ways and could be how you specialize as an e-commerce developer.

Security is important for any business; building an inaccessible website is risky and isn’t the right choice, and if you are building your business on top of WooCommerce, you want to have some agency over the direction it goes in.

We’re going to cover the following topics:

  • Why and how to make your WooCommerce Store accessible
  • Keeping WooCommerce safe and secure
  • Staying up to date with WooCommerce and open source software

Once you’ve explored these topics, you’ll know more about WooCommerce than most developers.