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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)

Understanding Product blocks

With WordPress 5.0 (Gutenberg) came blocks and the WooCommerce team immediately started creating custom blocks for products (https://woocommerce.com/posts/making-it-easier-to-add-products-to-posts-and-pages-with-the-products-block-for-gutenberg/).

To see how powerful these blocks are, go to the admin page, then go to Pages | Homepage and see how the home page was created. We can see a list of all of the available blocks here:

  • Products by Category block
  • Newest Products block
  • Hand-picked Products block
  • Top Rated Products block
  • On Sale Products block
  • Best Selling Products block

All of the features are built with the new blocks. If you want to see all of the blocks included in WooCommerce, add a new block to any WordPress post and type in woocommerce:

A list of product blocks for WooCommerce is shown that can be added to any page including the home...