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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

New features in WooCommerce

The first version of this book came out back in the Spring of 2020. Since then, there have been 30+ major releases of WooCommerce. Let’s look at what they’ve been working on!

WooCommerce Admin

The WooCommerce Admin plugin started with WooComemrce 4.0 and was shipped with WooCommerce 6.5. WooCommerce Admin offers significantly enhanced reporting. It enables filtering and comparisons and provides an overview of your store’s performance in terms of sales and revenue.

Additionally, it offers insights into the most popular and highest-grossing products while also enhancing customer management and analytics capabilities.

WooCommerce Payments

WooCommerce also added WooCommerce Payments in 4.1. This feature brings a new dashboard to your site’s WordPress administration area for handling payments, refunds, disputes, and deposits.

WooCommerce blocks

With WordPress 5.0 they introduced the new block-based editing experience...