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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)

Viewing hooks on the Frontend

It's very common for store owners to want to customize the frontend of their store. They might really like the look of the product page but they want to rearrange certain elements.

In this section, we're going to install a plugin to help us to understand how the WooCommerce code works so that we can modify it.

As an example, let's say we take a look at our product page and we don't think listing the category is important for our store. We could move that lower down the page. But how would we even begin to do that?

In the following screenshot, how do we move Category: Tshirts lower down the page? Take a look:

The answer is simple: the first thing we have to do is find where this code is coming from and how it's being displayed on the page. We could go through thousands of lines of code in WooCommerce or we could use what I...