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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce, Second Edition

Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce, Second Edition

By : Robbert Ravensbergen
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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce, Second Edition

Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce, Second Edition

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By: Robbert Ravensbergen

Overview of this book

Building an online store is often considered to be a difficult, complex task. Using the combination of WordPress and the WooCommerce plugin, this is no longer the case. WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce platform for WordPress and is being rapidly developed by WooThemes. It provides a strong e-commerce solution to set up your own online store in just a couple of hours. This easy and practical book will help you make the most of WooCommerce to be able to set up and run your online store yourself. Installing WooCommerce is an easy task, but this book will explain in detail all the possible settings. After that you'll be adding products, different payment methods, and shipping solutions to your store. You will then customize your store by adding themes to change the look and feel. Once your store is running, you'll learn how to use discount coupons, process your orders, look at reports, and even expand the functionality further with additional plugins. By the end of the book, you will learn everything you need to add a fully functional online store to you WordPress website and start running an online business.
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Where to find the right WooCommerce plugins


We already noticed earlier in this book that we probably need additional plugins to support the Payment Method or Payment Service Provider of our choice. There are a number of websites that we can check to see if the functionality we need is available:

  • WooThemes: http://www.woothemes.com/product-category/woocommerce-extensions/. The extensions offered here are not always developed by the WooCommerce core team, but by third-party programmers. The plugins found here are of a good quality, but sometimes can be pricey. However, note that programmers will have to make some money as well. By charging an amount for their plugins, they will be able to keep supporting them, which is important if your online business is going to rely on it. The commercial WooThemes plugins include one year of support.

  • WordPress: http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins. The plugins offered here are free, or have at least a free (limited) version available. We found extensions...

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