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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

Keeping WooCommerce safe and secure

This whole book has been guiding you to build an incredible WooCommerce store that will make a lot of money for you or your client. But that store won’t do you any good if hackers can get easy access to your site and siphon money from your business or turn the whole website into an ad for cryptocurrency.

There are several steps you can take that make your site much more resilient.

Check your hosting before you launch

Before you launch your store, it’s worth double-checking that your website host is both reputable and has modern technology.

We talked about hosts back in Chapter 9, Speeding Up Your Store. It’s worth talking about website hosts again in the context of security. A website host is the infrastructure for your site. If you want to have a secure website with an insecure host, it’s sort of like rolling up the windows of your car but leaving the door unlocked.

Here are some of the features I’...