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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

A store in multiple languages

If you need to run a website in multiple languages, there's one major player in the market that you need to go to: WPML (https://wpml.org/). Unfortunately, WordPress does not support multilingual websites out of the box, so using plugins is always mandatory. Creating a store in multiple languages is a pretty complex process and requires you to thoroughly read the documentation provided by WPML. You'll need the Multilingual CMS plugin that is currently available from $79. Running WPML can become resource-intensive, so keep in mind that it can have consequences for your hosting plan as well:

A store in multiple languages

You'll need to install several plugins offered by WPML:

  • WPML Multilingual CMS
  • WPML Translation Management
  • WPML Media
  • WPML CMS Nav
  • WMPL String translation
  • WooCommerce Multilingual

The WPML plugin offers a pretty good guide for beginners at https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/. Besides that, please also read the documentation the was made for WooCommerce users: https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/woocommerce-multilingual/.

All the plugins are included when buying the WPML package.

Free plugins

We've seen in this chapter that the majority of WooCommerce plugins are offered by commercial parties. Sometimes, there's a free, limited version of the plugin available. Now, there's nothing wrong with this because if your online business relies on it, it's better to have a developer that is actually maintaining the plugin code. This doesn't mean that with a free plugin the code won't be maintained, but we've seen lots of situations in the past where free plugins were not regularly updated. However, if you're looking for free plugins, here are a couple of examples that are worth checking out:

  • The WooCommerce customizer (https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-customizer/) offers a couple of combined functions which are simple but actually missing in the WooCommerce core. You can, for instance, set the number of products shown on the product page and change some of the default texts used within the checkout process.
  • WooCommerce does not use sequential order numbers. This is caused by the fact that the numbering is shared with other post types like pages, posts, products, and so on. The result of this is an order number sequence that doesn't make sense at all. This free plugin solves this issue: https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-sequential-order-numbers/. However, test it in your situation first; I've seen examples where the plugin didn't play together nicely with the payment plugins.
  • WooCommerce doesn't offer wishlist functionality out of the box. The plugin YITH WooCommerce Wishlist (https://wordpress.org/plugins/yith-woocommerce-wishlist/) solves this in a nice way and is regularly updated. There's also a pro version available that is offering more options.

Of course, the plugins mentioned above just were examples to show you what WooCommerce is capable of doing. There are many, many more possibilities, so always carefully check if your requirements can be met using an existing extension. If the functionality that you need is not available, it sometimes makes sense to have it created just for your situation. In such a case, always ask for programmers that have experience with creating custom WooCommerce plugins!