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The first step in setting up your WooCommerce-powered online store is to install WordPress and the WooCommerce plugin itself. But before doing so, you should check your hosting environment. As a guide, we recommend:
PH...
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If you have an existing site and want to install WooCommerce, using the WordPress Admin is the most straightforward option as it handles everything for you.To install WooCommerce:...
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There are two things to understand when uninstalling or removing WooCommerce.
If you deactivate and delete the plugin from WordPress, you only remove the plugin and its files. Your settings, orders, products, pages, e...
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WooCommerce installs some custom tables to store its data during install. More about tables installed: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/wiki/Database-Descript...
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Taxonomies and post types
Two major building blocks in the WordPress environment are taxonomies and post types....
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WooCommerce Endpoints
Endpoints are essentially an extra part in the website URL that we detect and show different content when present.
For example, you may have a ...
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Top three most common issues
Chances are that you are having an issue with your WooCommerce store, if you’ve landed on this page. Our aim is to help you solve it.
According to stats, most issues are caused by...
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If you get errors like this in your site header:
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(xxx) failed: Permission deni...
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This error:
SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.(Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)
is caused by a misconfiguration of SSL/apache (common...
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If you are running multiple installs of WordPress on the same domain, and SESSIONS are being shared between your installs you can add the following to your wp-config.php file to prevent this from occurring:
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Updates to WooCommerce, Storefront, WordPress, and your extensions and payment gateways are a fact of life. Our team of developers are hard at work releasing updates that add new features, fix issues, tighten security and, in general, make yo...
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Double check the markup on your checkout page by viewing the source and running it through a validator. Keep an eye out for unclosed html tags and misplaced code. For example if you accid...
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Choosing the right WooCommerce theme will naturally be largely subjective. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” as they say. But beauty is only skin deep. Here are some tips to consider before choosing a theme for your store.
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Upon installation, WooCommerce creates the following new pages via the Setup Wizard:
Shop – No content required.
Cart – Co...
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Top three most common issues
Chances are that you are having an issue with your WooCommerce store, if you’ve landed on this page. Our aim is to help you solve it.
According to stats, most issues are caused by...
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Introduction
Before you install WooCommerce you must have a functional WordPress installation. If you haven't completed this step you must visit our ...
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Once you have added products to your WooCommerce store and have used ...
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In this Getting Started guide, we teach you how to set up a website with WooCommerce.
Choose Hosting
You need to be running WordPress on a self-hosted site.
We have partnered with a few hosting companies th...
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Easy Content Type
Disable Taxonomy Archives Fix must be ticked. Otherwise taxonomy archives (product categories) do not show products.
Easy PayPal Custom Fields...
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Hosts that insist on SSL by proxy, such as Network Solutions), will cause problems with WordPress and WooCommerce because they prevent PHP and the WordPress ...
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If you notice product variations, tax rates and other large data sets not saving, Suhosin (a security module in PHP) may be preventing the POST data from being saved. This issue can also be caused by servers with version PHP 5.3.9+ ...
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To address memory limit issues, there are two paths:
Adjust yourself
Contact your hosting company
Do It Yourself
To adjust on your own, here are some methods&nb...
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The ‘review order’ page loads the payment methods/totals via ajax – this display a loading spinner briefly. If there are problems, this section may fail to load or the spinner may remain.
First you should check Wo...
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Currently we are aware of two possible causes for this error
Outdated plugins
Check that all of your WooCommerce.com plugins are up to date, including WooSlider if you have it installed....
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The first step is to determine the root cause.
Cache and CDN
Using a caching plugin is one way to optimize site performance: WP ...
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If you are having trouble with pages not installing properly or not displaying content, you can fix this:
Create a new page.
Add the correct page shortcode.
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On some WooCommerce installs you can experience the following issue: when a customer purchases a downloadable product, the Complete Order Email doesn’t contain any download link for the customer to download pur...
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This document is for anyone who has received an email from PayPal with the subject : IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED: PayPal service upgrades
PayPal is upgrading the certificate for www.paypal.com to SHA-256. This endpoint is also used by mer...
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WooCommerce is a set of eCommerce tools designed to work with WordPress. In this Tutorial series you will learn how to install the WooCommerce plugin, get started selling products, setting up shipping, taxes, and analytics. Likewise, this guide co...
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If you're just starting out with WooCommerce you may be overwhelmed with the amount of tools and options you have before you. In this article you will get a quick overview of the primary WooCommerce features.
All of the following (and ...
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Getting started with WooCommerce is quick and easy, but that does not mean one should rush in too quickly. There are many important considerations to make before setting up your store. While many of these points can be decided when you arrive at t...
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WooCommerce is built on WordPress, so it is a natural blogging platform right out of the box. However, integrating blogging into your WooCommerce store is optional. WooCommerce can function well as a completely static website.
Nevertheless...
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Once you have started adding products to your site and you begin to promote your store, you will want to take your site's search engine ranking into consideration.
Are your products unique? Do you want potential customers to find you throu...
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If you choose to stop using WooCommerce, or if you decide to install it in a different WordPress site, you can easily Uninstall WooCommerce.
Removing the WooCommerce ...
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WooCommerce is designed to work well within whichever WordPress theme you are already using. Dedicated WooCommerce themes, however, will have options and styles specifically for WooCommerce stores.
You may want to try out different themes ...
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Before you decide on a theme for your WooCommerce store, you may wish to "audition" a series of different themes. Every WooCommerce or WordPress theme offers a different look and feel with generally similar functionality.
Keep in mind most...
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Which pages will WooCommerce use for your shop, cart, and account pages? Why do you need to know?
Actually, you don't need to know. WooCommerce creates these pages automatically when you first install the plugin. But since you've decided t...
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Introduction
WooCommerce supports a vast fleet of extensions to help you work more productively. Some of these extensions can be used as free plugins but there are premium extensions available as well. The difference between W...
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As we continue our series on the WooCommerce plugin for WordPress, we will now show you how to set email notifications in WooCommer...
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Paying with credit cards is one of the safest ways to complete an online transaction. Now that you've set up a WooCommerce store, you'll want to accommodate a ...
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Now that you have gone through the installation and setup of your WooCommerce store you can add your first product.
Add Your Product
Go to your...
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You can change the price of a product in WooCommerce through your WordPress admin panel.
Each product you add to your store can be assigned a Regular Price and a Sale Price. Where you wi...
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As discussed in the full guide about adding products in WooCommerce, Attributes can be used for important ...
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Once you have installed WooCommerce and are ready to ...
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What are Product Categories?
Product Categories provide an extra layer of information about your products and help organize your store. In your product hierarchy, Categories should be considered less specific than...
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WooCommerce is a free open source ecommerce plugin for WordPress which allows anyone to easily set up an online store. WooCommerce h...
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As we continue our series on the WooCommerce plugin for WordPress, we will now show you how to set email notificati...
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Add a Product or Edit an Existing Product
We have already learned how t...
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In our full guide on editing a product price, you learned how to edit product data for an individual item. In this a...
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WooCommerce is designed to accept orders for your products in a very simple, straightforward way. However, there may be an occasion in which you will need to manually add an order on behalf of a customer.
In this article, you will learn ho...
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WooCommerce allows you to add and manage coupons in your store. You can add as many coupons as you want and control necessary restrictions.
Any WooCommerce store manager will want to make use of the coupon system at some point. It is a gre...
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CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. And it's something you may want to learn about now that you have an e-commerce business. There are many different CRM platforms available.
CRM applications on the market today do...