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WooCommerce Cookbook

WooCommerce Cookbook

By : Rauland
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WooCommerce Cookbook

WooCommerce Cookbook

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By: Rauland

Overview of this book

If you have ever built or managed a WordPress site and want to add e-commerce functionality into your site, WooCommerce and this book are perfect for you. Learning how to use WooCommerce through this series of recipes will give you a solid platform to add any future e-commerce needs.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1. WooCommerce Basics
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1. WooCommerce Basics
Introduction
Installing WooCommerce
Setting your store location and currency
Finding documentation on WooThemes.com
Installing WooCommerce plugins
Installing official WooThemes plugins
Manually creating WooCommerce pages
Creating a WooCommerce plugin
Adding a currency to WooCommerce
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2. Adding Products
2. Adding Products
Introduction
Adding a simple product
Adding an image gallery to a product
Changing image sizes in WooCommerce
Adding a downloadable file to a product
Adding global product attributes
Adding a variable product
Adding an extra fee to a product with the Product Add-ons plugin
Adding a product bundle with the Product Bundles plugin
Bulk-uploading products with a CSV File
Removing product tabs
Reordering product tabs
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3. Changing the Product Organization
3. Changing the Product Organization
Introduction
Changing the number of products per page
Changing the number of columns on the Shop page
Adding filtered navigation with the Layered Nav widget
Making the Add to Cart button go straight to the checkout page
Adding a custom tab to the product page
Adding social media sharing icons to your product page
Adding a Product Search widget
Allowing users to search by SKU
Adding extra sorting options on the Shop page
Sorting products from the oldest to the most recent
Adding a site-wide notice
Displaying the amount saved for on-sale products
Displaying the amount saved as a percentage
Changing the breadcrumb separator
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4. Running a Membership Site
4. Running a Membership Site
Introduction
Adding a subscription product with the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin
Creating pricing tables with the Easy Pricing Tables plugin
Adding member-only pricing with the Dynamic Pricing plugin
Displaying special pricing for logged-in users with the Conditional Content plugin
Creating members-only content
Creating a members-only store
Making subscription payments more consistent
Customizing the subscription price string
Creating a custom subscription interval
Exporting subscription orders
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5. Setting Up Shipping Methods
5. Setting Up Shipping Methods
Introduction
Setting a minimum order amount to unlock free shipping
Configuring Flat Rate Shipping
Creating shipping classes
Getting live shipping quotes with USPS
Creating a table of shipping rates with Table Rate Shipping
Allowing shipping only to the continental US
Enabling free shipping on a per product basis
Tracking your shipments with Shipment Tracking
Exporting orders for fulfillment to ShipStation
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6. Getting Paid
6. Getting Paid
Introduction
Configuring the PayPal gateway
Configuring the Simplify Commerce gateway
Configuring the Stripe gateway
Enabling HTTPS on checkout
Enabling HTTPS on specific pages
Tracking e-commerce transactions with Google Analytics
Creating an invoice
Adding a fee per gateway using the Payment Gateway based Fees extension
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7. Modifying the Checkout Process
7. Modifying the Checkout Process
Introduction
Adding a Terms & Conditions page
Opening the Terms & Conditions page in a pop-up
Adding a newsletter signup to the checkout page
Adding or removing checkout fields
Modifying the image size of related products
Adding an Empty Cart button to the cart page
Hiding all checkout fields for virtual products
Adding banners to remind customers of upgrades
Hiding the Coupon field
Skipping the cart and going straight to checkout
Creating a one-page checkout
Adding a default country and state to the checkout page
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8. Managing Orders and Taxes
8. Managing Orders and Taxes
Introduction
Sending a note to a customer
Refunding an order
Importing orders from another store
Sending order information to third parties with the Advanced Notifications plugin
Making the order numbers sequential
Giving away products
Manually entering tax rates
Automatically calculating tax rates with the TaxJar plugin
Setting a post code for correct taxation with the Local Pickup setting
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9. WooCommerce Theming
9. WooCommerce Theming
Introduction
Declaring support for WooCommerce
Displaying the accepted credit cards
Adding a cart icon to the menu
Overriding WooCommerce templates
Using WooCommerce hooks
Displaying an image on the category archive page
Writing CSS to customize the Add to Cart button
Creating a product slideshow
Removing a product category from the Shop page
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10. Exploring More with WooCommerce
10. Exploring More with WooCommerce
Introduction
Enabling WooCommerce Reviews
Hiding reviews from the Category/Shop page
Displaying positive reviews in the product description
Cloaking an affiliate link
Creating a regular expression for a cloaked affiliate link
Creating a coupon with restrictions
Bulk-generating coupons with the Smart Coupons plugin
Changing the default e-mail's from address
Sending follow-up e-mails after purchase
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Index
Index

Installing WooCommerce plugins

WooCommerce is open source and free, which means that any developer can add extra functionality to WooCommerce. Some developers may add this extra functionality with a WordPress plugin and then release the plugin either for free or as a premium plugin.

There are three likely places to get a WooCommerce plugin: from WooThemes, from WordPress.org, or from a third-party website. In this recipe, we'll be installing a plugin obtained from a third-party site. Installing a WooCommerce plugin from WordPress.org is similar to installing WooCommerce. We will have a look at how to install official WooThemes plugins in the next recipe.

Getting ready

Make sure you have the necessary permissions to install plugins on your WordPress site and that you have WooCommerce installed.

How to do it…

We're going to be downloading a plugin I created as an example of how to create an extra WooCommerce settings page, by performing the following steps:

  1. Go to https://gist.github.com/BFTrick/b5e3afa6f4f83ba2e54a/.
  2. Click on Download Gist.
    How to do it…
  3. Make sure your plugin is in the .zip format. By looking at the downloaded file, we can see that our file ends in .tar.gz, which is not the right format:
    How to do it…

    We need to convert this to the .zip format. Here's what you need to do on a Mac operating system:

    1. Double-click on the .tar.gz file, which will create a new folder.
    2. Right-click on the new folder and click on Compress gistb5e3afa6f4f83ba2...9.

      And this is what you need to do on a Windows operating system:

    3. Windows cannot extract a .tar.gz file natively. You'll have to install a software to do so. A free tool is 7-Zip, which can be found at http://www.7-zip.org/.
    4. In your WordPress admin, click on the Plugins menu and then on Add New:
      How to do it…
    5. Click on Upload Plugin:
      How to do it…
    6. On the new screen, choose the zipped file to be uploaded and click on Install Now.
    7. Once the plugin has finished installing, click on the Activate Plugin link. The following screen should appear:
    How to do it…

You now have a WooCommerce plugin installed on your site. If you want to see what this plugin does, you can navigate to the WooCommerce settings page and click on Settings Demo Tab.

How it works…

WordPress can import any ZIP file. As long as the plugin was created correctly, WordPress shouldn't have any problems running the plugin. If there is a problem, WordPress will let you know that the plugin has invalid code.

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