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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)

Adding social proof (FOMO)

Human beings are social creatures. If we see another person doing something, then we assume that it's okay for us to do that same thing. That's why, when we see a whole group of people gathering, we want to see what they're gathering around. We call this behavior social proof. And it's something that we can also add to our website.

There are lots of types of social proof, including the following:

  • Product reviews
  • Followers on social media

But in this section, we're going to talk about seeing other people doing the thing that you want them to do. If you visit Fomo website (https://fomo.com), you'll see activity at the bottom of the site. You can see this in the following image:

We can see that a real user was active on the site. That makes it much more likely for me to do that same activity.

We're going to set...