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Mastering WooCommerce 4

By : Patrick Rauland
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Mastering WooCommerce 4

By: Patrick Rauland

Overview of this book

WooCommerce is one of the most flexible platforms for building online stores. With its flexibility, you can offer virtually any feature to a client using the WordPress system. WooCommerce is also self-hosted, so the ownership of data lies with you and your client. This book starts with the essentials of building a WooCommerce store. You’ll learn how to set up WooCommerce and implement payment, shipping, and tax options, as well as configure your product. The book also demonstrates ways to customize and manage your products by using SEO for enhanced visibility. As you advance, you’ll understand how to manage sales by using POS systems, outsource fulfillment, and external reporting services. Once you’ve set up and organized your online store, you’ll focus on improving the user experience of your e-commerce website. In addition to this, the book takes you through caching techniques to not only improve the speed and performance of your website but also its look and UI by adding themes. Finally, you’ll build the landing page for your website to promote your product, and design WooCommerce plugins to customize the functionalities of your e-commerce website. By the end of this WooCommerce book, you’ll have learned how to run a complete WooCommerce store, and be able to customize each section of the store on the frontend as well as backend.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Adding e-commerce to a landing page

Our landing page is looking pretty good. Now that we've done a good job of showing off our awesome product with different types of content, we just need to give viewers a way to purchase the product. There are a couple of ways to do this: we can use the featured product block, we can add an Add to cart button to the page, or we could also use the One Page Checkout extension.

Let's start with the easiest method, which is adding a featured product block. Then we'll look into adding an Add to cart button directly to the page.

Adding a featured product

Before we can let users add a product to their cart, we have to add the product to our store. We don't have to add every...