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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

Adding product filters to your Shop page

Since we’re organizing the products in your store, if you haven’t installed Storefront, now is a good time to do so. Most themes will work with WooCommerce, but Storefront is designed to work with WooCommerce, and it’s made by WooCommerce so it’s a great place to get started. Whatever theme you choose, you’ll want to make sure you can configure a sidebar so we can add widgets to help our users filter products.

You can do this by going to Appearance | Themes | Storefront | Activate.

Now we want to go to the WordPress customizer. You can get to the customizer through Appearance | Customize in your admin. You should see something like this:

Figure 3.9– The WordPress customizer

Figure 3.9– The WordPress customizer

Let’s customize our Shop page. To do that, follow the steps given here:

  1. Click on Shop from within the customizer, which will load the following page:
Figure 3.10 – Loading the Shop page in the customizer
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