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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce
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Table of Contents
Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Setting Up WooCommerce
Preparing for takeoff
Installing WooCommerce
Setting up WooCommerce
The General Settings tab
The Catalog Settings tab
The Pages Settings tab
The Inventory Settings tab
The Tax Settings tab
Summary
2. Creating Your First Products
Setting up categories
Creating your first product
General data
Inventory data
Shipping data
Attributes
Advanced data
Setting up categories, tags, and product images
Summary
3. Other Product Types
Working with tags
Using attributes
Setting up variable products
Other product types
Grouped products
Virtual products
Downloadable products
External/Affiliate products
Summary
4. Payments, Shipping, and Coupons
Payment methods
Payment methods to be used
What you need to know about credit cards
Setting up PayPal
Shipping methods and prices
Shipping classes
Carrier integration
Using discount coupons
Summary
5. Working with WooCommerce Themes
Making or buying a theme
Finding and selecting WooCommerce themes
Things you should pay attention to when buying a theme
Installing a WooCommerce theme
Working with theme settings
Summary
6. Customize or Create a WooCommerce Theme
What we need to get started
Tools
WordPress theme basics
Developing WooCommerce themes
WooCommerce CSS
WooCommerce hooks and filters
Summary
7. Running Your Online Store
Adjust notification e-mails
Work with sales orders
Reporting
Summary
8. More Possibilities Using Plugins
Where to find WooCommerce plugins
Popular and useful WooCommerce plugins
Online marketing
Mailchimp integration
Social coupons
Google shopping
Running your store
Table rate shipping
Invoicing
Subscriptions
Reporting
Additional product possibilities
Product add-ons
Business-to-business catalog
Importing product data
USA tax calculations
Summary
Index
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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce
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First published: November 2013
Production Reference: 1151113
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ISBN 978-1-78216-640-5
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Author
Robbert Ravensbergen
Reviewers
Max Rice
Brent Shepherd
Acquisition Editors
Andrew Duckworth
Julian Ursell
Commissioning Editor
Deepika Singh
Technical Editors
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Jinesh Kampani
Project Coordinator
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Proofreader
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Indexer
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Production Coordinator
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Cover Work
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Robbert Ravensbergen is an experienced IT Manager who worked for several companies in The Netherlands. In 2009, he became interested in open source technology. Joomla was very popular during those days. He started his company Joomblocks.com, created his first Joomla extensions, and worked on multiple Joomla projects.
As time went by, he learned about other open source solutions as well, and got interested in WordPress. During 2010, his first book about WordPress was released in The Netherlands. After that, several Dutch titles followed about WordPress, Joomla, and Magento, all of which were very successful.
In 2013, he released his first English book with Packt Publishing, Magento Beginner's Guide second edition. He wrote the book together with Co-author Sander Schoneville. This book about WooCommerce is his first solo title that is released by Packt Publishing.
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Max Rice is a co-founder of SkyVerge, Inc. He discovered his love of technology at the age of nine when he took apart family computers, then had to figure out how to put them back together (that resulted in interesting calls to Gateway tech support). He became interested into the software side of things and began programming in high school. Following a stint as a Technology Director for a small company. While doing freelance web design, Max returned to his first love, software development, and he paired up with Justin Sternto and founded SkyVerge, which specializes in eCommerce software. SkyVerge has become the largest WooCommerce developer due to its...
