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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)

Organizing Products

Once you've added products to your store, it's time to start thinking about the organization of your store. WooCommerce automatically lists products on your Shop page and if you're new to e-commerce, you might decide that's enough and stop there.

But there's actually a lot you can do to improve the organization of your store. And this organization can have a huge impact on the revenue the store generates.

As an example, in 2017, WooCommerce updated the category structure on its site. It reorganized 17 top-level categories into 7 top-level categories with subcategories as shown in the following screenshot:

This one change improved the conversion rate of anyone landing on a category page by 20%. That's a massive improvement. And what's great is this helps both the store owner by getting more revenue and helps the user by making...