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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)

A/B test everything

Now that we have everything set up, it's worth testing if it works. Oftentimes, when you launch a new product, you don't know what resonates the most with your audience. Sometimes you have a few guesses and you want to test them.

We can set up an A/B test, where certain users see one version of the landing page and other users see the second version. We can then compare which group had a higher conversion rate, and figure out which marketing message resonates with our audience.

Let's install some software that will help us to create alternative versions of pages, as well as monitor how successful they are. We'll install the software, set up the test, and then measure the results.

Install the Simple Page Tester plugin

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