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• WooCommerce Menu Items

  Activating WooCommerce adds 4 main menu items to the WordPress admin dashboard. Click here for a closer look.

• Understanding the WooCommerce System Status Report

  The WooCommerce System Status report is useful for troubleshooting issues with your store. Containing a wide variety of information and tools, you can check software versions, server settings, and more from within. System Status To view your System Status report: WordPress Environment This provides general information about your site and WordPress installation and features you […]

• MaxMind geolocation integration

  The free, core WooCommerce plugin enables store owners to automatically geolocate customers to display tax rates and shipping methods specific to their location. To determine this, WooCommerce integrates with MaxMind GeoLite2 geolocation data (as of version 3.9+). This document covers: Enabling geolocation To enable the MaxMind geolocation integration: Once geolocation is enabled, you’ll need to […]

• Roles and Capabilities

  WooCommerce registers two user roles once activated, and grants additional capabilities to the Admin: Customer role People become Customers when they register via the checkout or sign-up process. Customers: Shop Manager role Shop Manager is a role you can give someone to manage the shop without making them an Admin. They have all the rights a customer […]

• Translating WooCommerce

  WooCommerce is already translated into a few languages and is translation-ready out of the box. All that is needed is a translation file for your language, which is automatically installed for the languages on this list by changing the site’s language. On this page you’ll learn: Set up WordPress in your language The first step to […]

• The My account page

  Overview Customers who have an account with your store have access to My account — the central customer dashboard in a WooCommerce store. Here, customers can view past orders, and edit addresses and payment details. This guide provides an overview of what your customers can do via their account dashboard. Dashboard If a customer visits […]

• High-Performance Order Storage

  High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) (previously known as Custom Order Tables) is a solution specifically designed for ecommerce needs that provides a simple-to-understand, solid database structure. It uses Woo’s Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) design to store order data in custom tables optimized for WooCommerce queries, with minimal impact on the store’s performance.  What’s new with High-Performance Order […]

• Shortcodes included with WooCommerce

  WooCommerce has traditionally utilized shortcodes to add dynamic content and features to WordPress pages. With WordPress’s evolution toward the Gutenberg block-based editor, the focus has shifted from shortcodes to more interactive and visually integrated blocks. While the block editor offers interactively customizable blocks and enhanced editing capabilities, we recognize many stores still lean heavily on […]

• Permalinks

  Permalink is short for permanent link. Permalinks are the URL structures used to help organize the content of your website which can be pages, posts, or, in the case of WooCommerce, products. A good URL structure can be efficiently navigated, shared, and referenced by potential customers and search engine crawlers. On this page you’ll learn: […]

• Customizing WooCommerce: Best Practices

  The best thing about WordPress and WooCommerce is code and content can be changed to suit — modify and customize your website entirely. Flexibility is one of the greatest benefits to using WooCommerce to sell online. Plugins, extensions and themes can be used to fulfill requirements, then adjusted and coded to tailor the look and […]