Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce

by Robbert Ravensbergen

In DetailBuilding an online store is often considered to be a difficult and complex task. Using the combination of WordPress and the WooCommerce plugin, this is no longer the case. WooCommerce is built using WordPress best practices both on the frontend and the backend. This results in an efficient, robust, and intuitive plugin. Learn to use this strong e-commerce solution and set up your own web shop in just a couple of hours.

Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce is a practical guide that delivers the knowledge you require to set up and get going with WooCommerce. This book also shows you how to choose a WooCommerce theme and set up different payment methods, in addition to helping you to keep a bird’s-eye view of incoming sales and reviews, stock levels, general store performance, and statistics from the WordPress dashboard.

You will start by installing WooCommerce and exploring the WooCommerce settings. Then, you will move on to creating and adding simple and complex products, and also set up payment and shipping methods. Once your store is up and running, you will learn how to process your orders, look at the reports, and even expand the functionality further with additional plugins. Finally, the book shows you how to choose a WooCommerce theme and adjust the theme settings.

ApproachBuilding E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce is a step-by-step tutorial with informal but informative tone.

Who this book is forThis book is written for users with an existing WordPress website who want to add e- commerce functionality to their current solution. This book is also suitable for web design agencies working with WordPress. As a pre-requisite, it is assumed that you already have some experience of PHP and using WordPress.

132 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Praveen · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce" is a Must read for anyone looking to get started building an online store with WordPress. The last few years have seen an exponential growth of WordPress which continues to dominate the CMS scene and there was a major requirement / gap in transforming it into a viable/usable Ecommerce platform. WooCommerce was forked from Gigoshop and is being developed by the good folks at WooThemes along with the WordPress Community. Of all the self hosted Ecommerce Solutions , WooCommerce has been the most extendable , usable , out of the box platform that I have used. With such an explosion , there is a dearth of tutorials to get started with WooCommerce.

"Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce" is a Beginners guide to getting started with creating your own solutions. I say that it is a beginners guide because except for chapter 6 which deals with customizing the functionality of WooCommerce , it is pretty much readable by anyone who runs an online store with little programming skills.

There are two main target audiences for this book who are Site Admins who are looking to deepen their knowledge on WooCommerce and then there are those WordPress developers looking to get started as a WooCommerce developer ,i.e. get started with developing WooCommerce supported themes and Plugins. Be aware that this book targets more of the former than the later. The Chapters are organized in a manner that is easy to comprehend and they are filled with screenshots . At the time of this review , I am using WooCommerce Version 2.1.5 and the screens have already been changed due to the rapid development cycles of WooCommerce so be aware of that.

Ideally it would be best for the beginners to read this book while doing the exercises in the sequence of mention . Having a grasp of HTML/CSS/PHP/WordPress Codex would definitely help but it is not a must[Except for Chapter 6]. For the WordPress Developers looking to develop in WooCommerce , this books definitely gives a launchpad but doesn't go deeper, understandably to focus on the beginner crowd.With that said , I enjoyed this Book and it makes a quick read at 132 Pages. I would recommend this book to any one looking to create a Ecommerce solution with WordPress.

[Tim · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been a Wordpress user for over 3 years and in that time I've used WooCommerce off and on for various online shop setup (for friends and myself). It was a really nice surprise to read Mr Ravensbergen's book and find there is still a lot to learn about setting up WooCommerce quickly and efficiently. I'd recommend this book to any Wordpress user looking to get the most out of their online store. Even if you aren't a WooCommerce user you can learn a lot and maybe even convert over to WooCommerce. The plugin and the book together make it a simple process. The book is available through a bunch of sites and I got mine at Packt Publishing which offers a nice variety of online purchase options. Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce at Packt

[Cezary Dobrowolski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty solid explanation of all basic concepts, although it's more of a used manual than a guidebook: it describes woocommerce options without giving you any solid ideas what to do with them. Enough for a beginner.

[Trekka12 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good introduction book to WooCommerce e-commerce plugin for WordPress. Covers Everything you need to get started in terms of setting up the shop. Really helpful :)

[Human Being · Rating 3 out of 5]

it's good for only woocommerce users not developers