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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce - Second Edition

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  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce Second Edition
  4. Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce Second Edition
  5. Credits
  6. About the Author
  7. About the Reviewers
  8. www.PacktPub.com
  9. Preface
  10. What you need for this book
  11. Who this book is for
  12. Conventions
  13. Reader feedback
  14. Customer support
  15. 1. Setting Up WooCommerce
  16. Installing WooCommerce
  17. Setting up WooCommerce
  18. Summary
  19. 2. Creating Your First Products
  20. Creating your first product
  21. Setting the categories, tags, and images for your product
  22. Summary
  23. 3. Using Downloadable Products and Variations
  24. Using attributes
  25. Setting up variable and grouped products
  26. Other product types
  27. Summary
  28. 4. Payments, Shipping, and Coupons
  29. Shipping methods and prices
  30. Using discount coupons
  31. Summary
  32. 5. Working with WooCommerce Themes
  33. Making or buying a theme
  34. Installing a WooCommerce theme
  35. Using the Storefront theme
  36. Summary
  37. 6. Customizing a WooCommerce Theme
  38. WordPress theme basics
  39. Developing WooCommerce themes
  40. Summary
  41. 7. Running Your Online Store
  42. Deploying your WooCommerce store
  43. Working with sales orders
  44. Reporting
  45. Summary
  46. 8. More Possibilities Using Plugins
  47. Popular and useful WooCommerce plugins
  48. A store in multiple languages
  49. Summary
  50. Index

Chapter 5. Working with WooCommerce Themes

So far we've been able to setup our online store, add different type of products and take the necessary steps to add payment and shipping methods. We already installed the free Storefront theme earlier, but our shop still looks very standard though. It's time to change the look and feel of our store!

In this chapter we'll cover:

  • Using the available widgets and shortcodes
  • Making or buying a theme
  • Finding and selecting WooCommerce themes
  • Using the free Storefront theme
  • Changing the Storefront theme using the customizer

Using the available widgets and shortcodes

When you installed WooCommerce, you also received a number of possibilities that you can use to show products to your visitors. Of course there are the default available shop, category and product pages. But sometimes, you need more than that. Let's look at the other options that WooCommerce offers by default.

WooCommerce offers the following widgets, that you can reach from the Theme customizer or via Appearance | Widgets:

  • WooCommerce Layered Nav Filters
  • WooCommerce Price filter
  • WooCommerce Product Categories
  • WooCommerce Products
  • WooCommerce Product Search
  • WooCommerce Product Tags
  • WooCommerce Recently Viewed
  • WooCommerce Recent Review
  • WooCommerce Top Rated Products

The screenshot is as follows:

Using the available widgets and shortcodes

Using these widgets is easy and works just like any other WordPress widget. Using a couple of these in your sidebar gives your visitors the flexibility they need to find their way in your store. In the example below you see we activated the following widgets: WooCommerce Product Search, WooCommerce Products and WooCommerce Product Categories:

Using the available widgets and shortcodes

Note that the sidebar is on the right in this example. Generally it makes more sense in an online store to have such a sidebar on the left. This is something you can just set in the Storefront theme. Later on in this chapter we'll give you more information on customizing the Storefront theme.