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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

Understanding product blocks

With WordPress 5.0 (Gutenberg) came blocks, and the WooCommerce team immediately started creating custom blocks for products (https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-blocks/).

To see how powerful these blocks are let’s create a new homepage. Go to the admin, then go to Pages | Add New.

Once the new page loads, it’s time to configure the homepage.

Add a title for the homepage. I like to keep it simple and obvious by calling it homepage. Now let’s add a few blocks to this page.

The simplest solution is to add the All Products block. But for my store, I want to highlight the product I’m best known for. So I’m going to use the Single Product block. Then select a specific product from the dropdown. I’ll choose Fry Thief.

Figure 3.17 – The Single Product block

Figure 3.17 – The Single Product block

I also want to show off some of our swag beneath the main product. Let’s add the Products by Category...