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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce - Second Edition

By : Robbert Ravensbergen
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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce - Second Edition

By: Robbert Ravensbergen

Overview of this book

Building an online store is often considered to be a difficult, complex task. Using the combination of WordPress and the WooCommerce plugin, this is no longer the case. WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce platform for WordPress and is being rapidly developed by WooThemes. It provides a strong e-commerce solution to set up your own online store in just a couple of hours. This easy and practical book will help you make the most of WooCommerce to be able to set up and run your online store yourself. Installing WooCommerce is an easy task, but this book will explain in detail all the possible settings. After that you'll be adding products, different payment methods, and shipping solutions to your store. You will then customize your store by adding themes to change the look and feel. Once your store is running, you'll learn how to use discount coupons, process your orders, look at reports, and even expand the functionality further with additional plugins. By the end of the book, you will learn everything you need to add a fully functional online store to you WordPress website and start running an online business.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the available widgets and shortcodes


When you installed WooCommerce, you also received a number of possibilities that you can use to show products to your visitors. Of course there are the default available shop, category and product pages. But sometimes, you need more than that. Let's look at the other options that WooCommerce offers by default.

WooCommerce offers the following widgets, that you can reach from the Theme customizer or via Appearance | Widgets:

  • WooCommerce Layered Nav Filters

  • WooCommerce Price filter

  • WooCommerce Product Categories

  • WooCommerce Products

  • WooCommerce Product Search

  • WooCommerce Product Tags

  • WooCommerce Recently Viewed

  • WooCommerce Recent Review

  • WooCommerce Top Rated Products

The screenshot is as follows:

Using these widgets is easy and works just like any other WordPress widget. Using a couple of these in your sidebar gives your visitors the flexibility they need to find their way in your store. In the example below you see we activated the following...