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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

Summary

Security is important for every business. By configuring a few best practices now and working with the right host, you’ll have a pretty secure business. You also know where to start in the wide world of website accessibility. By knowing how to contribute code to WooCommerce, you actually have the agency to affect all of these not just for your site but for all WooCommerce sites.

We’re at the end of the book and you are well on your way to mastering WooCommerce. You have the essentials documented in this book.

You can build your own WooCommerce store, sell the products you want to sell, display those products how you want, and customize a theme for your brand, including landing pages and customizing the product page.

You can also understand what’s happening in your store by viewing WooCommerce sales data, you can accept payments in person with a POS system, you can configure any number of shipping services to fulfill your packages worldwide, and...