What you'll learn

This course is designed to teach students the step by step process to creating a great looking functional eCommerce store with WordPress
We will cover downloading and installing our core files
Plugin selection and activation
Creating products and adding them to our inventory
Adding product categories
Creating product variations ( size / color )
How to add and showcase sale items
Creating product graphics
Adding a showcase slider to our home page
Customizing our site to match our logo colors

Course content

14 sections • 26 lectures • 2h 30m total length

Introduction to this course2:16
Learn to build a fully functional WordPress e-commerce site step by step, adding simple and variable products, upsells, and cross-sells with a theme and plugin.
Instructor Announcement0:46
The instructor prompts students to ignore the early review pop-up and provide feedback at the course end, inviting constructive five-star ratings and direct contact for improvements.

How to find and set up the WordPress platform3:37
Install WordPress on your site using hosting tools or a manual download. Configure the site in a subdirectory or root, create admin credentials, and log into the WordPress dashboard.
How to setup WordPress if your hosting provider does not provide it3:35
How to configure WordPress once you have uploaded it to your hosting provider3:59
After uploading, browse to your domain, choose English, and enter the database name, user, password, and host to install WordPress, then configure the table prefix and indexing before logging in.

How to create a first product and enter it into a woocommerce store11:18
Set up PayPal and link it to your WooCommerce store, then create your first product with a name, image, description, and SEO-friendly keywords.
Creating and duplicating more simple products6:52
Duplicate existing simple products to expand your catalog, edit images and prices, and publish new items. Customize the front page shop layout and manage product galleries to showcase sales.
How to create variable products for our eCommerce site11:21
Turn a simple product into a variable product in WordPress eCommerce by adding size and color attributes, generating all variations, assigning per-variation prices and images, and publishing to the shop.
Using quick edits and product up-sells and cross-sells4:13
Learn to use quick edits to manage sale prices, taxes, stock, and categories, link related products as up-sells and cross-sells, preview changes, and refine the sidebar widgets.

Adding an email plug in and building a contact us page including a live Google Map13:31
Create a contact page in WordPress by installing a free contact form plugin, customize fields (name, email, subject, radio buttons), and embed a live Google map for your store address.
Here we create an about us page to let our customers get to know us11:04
Creating a returns policy page is always a good idea when you are selling items4:18
Create a returns policy page for your WordPress ecommerce site by adding a page in the dashboard, using a returns and refund template, linking to contact page, and previewing layout.

In this video we create the menus to be used on eCommerce site8:28
Create and organize WordPress ecommerce menus, including main and category menus, with drag-and-drop to nest sub-items and add links such as contact us, returns policy, cart, checkout, and external links.
Inserting the menus we have created into our live site5:30
Set up and publish the main and category menus in WordPress, then verify navigation across shop, category, about us, contact us, and returns pages, plus set a promo slider.

Requirements

You will need access to a computer and an internet connection
A web hosting account
You will need some kind of graphic editing software ( links to free software included in the course )
A desire to showcase and sell products to a world wide audience

Description

Welcome to this course, in this course we're going to take you through the whole process of building a great-looking, WordPress online eCommerce store, complete with simple and variable products using the woocommerce plugin . Unlike many other courses, we are not going to just tell you how to use a woocommerce WordPress plug-in, or how to build your online eCommerce store, we are actually going to take you through the whole process step by step, until we have a complete store ready to sell your products online. We will cover installing WordPress, downloading and activating the woocommerce plugin, adding both simple and variable products, including up sells and cross sells. We will add a returns policy page, an about us page, and a contact page complete with working contact form. Once we have our pages built we will add menus, and then demonstrate how to customize the highlight colors of your site to match your logo. By the end of this course you will have a fully functional WordPress online e-commerce store ready to sell your product.

Who this course is for:

For people that would like to build an online store but don't know how
Anyone with a physical store that is looking for a new outlet for their products
Students interested in learning about the WordPress platform
People that are interested in eCommerce
Anyone creative that wants to build eCommerce sites for their customers

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Introduction to the course2 lectures • 3min

Getting up and running with WordPress3 lectures • 11min

Installing our eCommerce theme1 lecture • 3min

Branding our theme1 lecture • 6min

Woocommerce3 lectures • 9min

Adding products to a new site4 lectures • 34min

Widgets1 lecture • 11min

Contact page3 lectures • 29min

Categories1 lecture • 3min

Menus2 lectures • 14min

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