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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

Staying up to date with WooCommerce and open source software

When you build your business on a particular piece of software, it’s worth the time investment to follow the development of that software and have an idea where the software is heading over the next 1–3 years.

Besides just staying up to date with software, WooCommerce is open source. That means anyone can view the code and can choose to contribute new and improved code.

Contributing code is something for developers and engineers, but staying up to date with software is useful for anyone running an e-commerce business, even if you aren’t a coder. Let’s start with the ways you can stay up to date with WooCommerce.

Follow the Developer Blog

WooCommerce actually does a really good job of communicating where the software is going through their Developer Blog: https://developer.woocommerce.com/blog/.

Figure 14.5: Woo Developer Blog

Figure 14.5: Woo Developer Blog

This blog is how I find out...