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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

Developing WooCommerce themes


WooCommerce is delivered by default with a number of page templates that are used to display all shop information in the correct way. Even using the standard Twenty Fifteen theme, the WooCommerce pages already look pretty good. Just adding some additional CSS might be enough for you to get WooCommerce working even on a theme that was never even designed to work with WooCommerce. If you want to go further than that, here are the things that you need to know:

  • As mentioned, do not change an existing theme directly; it's better to work with a Child theme. Using the method described previously, you can be sure that your changes will not be overwritten in case of an upgrade of the WooCommerce plugin.

  • Find the default WooCommerce templates in wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/templates.

  • An overview of all the available WooCommerce template files can be found here as well http://docs.woothemes.com/document/template-structure/.

  • Copy only the ones that you'd like to change to...