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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce, Second Edition
Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce, Second Edition

Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce, Second Edition: Transform your WordPress website into a fully-featured e-commerce store with the power of WooCommerce , Second Edition

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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce, Second Edition

Chapter 2. Creating Your First Products

Now that WooCommerce is up and running and we had a look at its settings it's time to start creating a couple of products and build our online store. WooCommerce offers several possibilities to create your product catalog. In this chapter, we'll stick to the basics. You'll learn to:

  • Setting up product categories
  • Creating your first product
  • Setting the categories, tags, and images for your product
  • Learning about the other product types

Setting up product categories

When setting up your product catalog, it often makes sense to create Categories for your products, even if you have not so many products. Using a clear category structure makes it easier for your visitors to navigate and search your store. Further on you can use Tags and Attributes in your product catalog. Categories and Tags work in the same way you're used to from WordPress itself. Attributes are important for more complex product types. For instance, if I have a category for women's dresses, I could add Attributes for size and color. We'll discuss that in more depth in Chapter 3, Using Downloadable Products and Variations. Besides this, Attributes can also be used to add additional information to simple products.

For now, we'll just set up our category structure. Let's assume we are going to sell apparel in our store. We could start with three main categories in that case: Women, Men, and Children. If you're used to working...

Creating your first product

Once we've created some categories, it's time to start entering our first product. Click Products | Add Product in the menu on the left. Looking at the categories we created, most of the products will require sizing and colors as well. That's something we'll discuss later on, so for now we are going to create a simple women's belt in the category Accessories.

In the example below you'll see that we already pre-filled a lot of information, just to give an idea of the fields you need to start with:

Creating your first product

Let's have a closer look at all the available fields:

  • Start with the product name on the top. Make sure to use important key words in this field. The permalink will automatically be created, just as with regular WordPress posts, but you may change it if you want to.
  • In the editor underneath that, you may type the description of your product. Please note: this is the long description, which will be displayed at the bottom of your product...

Setting the categories, tags, and images for your product

We're almost there now. Under the product data section there's a possibility to use custom fields that we also know from regular WordPress posts. We do not need that now. Always first try if you can solve your need using the standard available Attributes and Tags.

So far we've just used the main part of the product creation page. On the right there are the well known fields to publish the item. But before we do, we first need to take care of some other data, starting with the Product Categories. Just as with any regular WordPress post, just click the categories your product belongs to. Note that it's possible to select more than one category.

Next, set the Product Tags by entering them in the field and just press Enter. Don't use too many tags per product, stick to using a few. Having too many tags might lead to duplicate content, because the chance of having multiple pages with the same content increases in...

Summary

During this chapter, we have learned to create our very first products in WooCommerce. We have seen how to use the most important WooCommerce fields to determine the behavior of our product.

In the next chapter, we will be adding more complex products and learn how to use attributes to create them.

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Key benefits

  • • Offers do-it-yourself e-commerce solution using WordPress and WooCommerce
  • • Discover the new Onboarding wizard that makes complex processes user-friendly
  • • Manage your online store and expand its functions using plugins

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

This book is suitable for everybody running their own WordPress website, such as small business owners and marketers. It has been written for users, not for programmers, who want to add e-commerce functionality to their existing WordPress website. The book will also appeal to Web design agencies working with WordPress and looking for ways to improve their services for clients working with WordPress.

What you will learn

  • • Use WooCommerce settings to set up the behavior of the online store
  • • Get familiar with the downloadable and variable products
  • • Set up shipping and payment methods
  • • Use discount coupons for marketing purposes
  • • Choose the right WooCommerce theme for your online store
  • • Customize your website using the Storefront theme as a base
  • • Handle orders, payments, and emails on a daily basis with ease
  • • Work with WooCommerce reporting possibilities
  • • Expanding your online store with the functionalities offered by WooCommerce

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Table of Contents

9 Chapters
1. Setting Up WooCommerce Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Creating Your First Products Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Using Downloadable Products and Variations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Payments, Shipping, and Coupons Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Working with WooCommerce Themes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Customizing a WooCommerce Theme Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Running Your Online Store Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. More Possibilities Using Plugins Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Just what I needed to get our website up and going.
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WooCommerce was eating my lunch while setting it up on one of my websites. I'm not a novice to web development - but not all that experienced in the WordPress world. I got the book to help me become more proficient. It is well written and I believe is going to just fit the bill for what I needed.
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Keeping in mind that this is not written for a developer, but for an experienced WordPress user, this an excellent introduction to setting up a WooCommerce store. It walks you through all the settings you need to know, and even recommends paid plugins that might be useful for different tasks along the way.
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A good book for those that know a little about WordPress and are new to WooCommerce. A good start.
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