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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 Storefront theme


The Storefront theme is definitely one of the better free themes. That makes sense because it was developed by the creators of WooCommerce.

The functionality of Storefront is a bit limited. However, you can expand the functionality by installing additional plugins for Storefront, which you have to pay for. Let's first take a look at the changes that you can make by default.

After activating the theme, it will add additional menu items to the Appearance menu in WordPress. Here, you'll find several shortcuts for additional possibilities. WooThemes is a commercial company after all, so there are plenty of links here for more options, which you have to pay for.

Whether you click on the link to Configure menus or Open the Customizer, in both cases the WordPress customizer will be opened. Since WordPress 4.3, you can change your menus from within the customizer, but the old function using Appearance | Menus is still available:

Just navigate the various options to change...