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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)

Building a Landing Page

A common strategy when announcing a new product or service is to create a landing page for that product. These can be used to educate potential customers about the new product or to get sales. They're usually quite in-depth with images, text, headlines, quotes, and sometimes user-submitted content. These all help a potential customer to understand what the product is, and why they would want it. They're also designed so that all of the information is on one page. That way, users don't get lost, and they hopefully sign up with their email or make a purchase. Once you know how to build a landing page, you can build one quickly in order to gauge interest in a potential product before launching, and once you have a product, you can secure sales.

We're going to build a landing page to capture pre-orders for a new product that we're launching...