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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce, Second Edition

You're reading from   Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce, Second Edition Transform your WordPress website into a fully-featured e-commerce store with the power of WooCommerce

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785881565
Length 194 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Making or buying a theme


The look and feel of your store is completely controlled by your WordPress theme. We already noticed that even a theme like Storefront already delivers good results. It's just better to use a theme that has been created with using WooCommerce in mind. If you would use a standard WordPress theme like Twenty Fifteen or Twenty Sixteen WooCommerce will still work, but layout issues might occur.

We have two possibilities when choosing a design for our store:

  • Design and develop a theme from scratch. Or have someone do that for us

  • Use a WooCommerce theme that is available on the market

To start with the first option, creating a theme ourselves is not something we could do overnight. It requires extensive knowledge of Web design, WordPress, WooCommerce, PHP, HTML, and CSS, Just to name a few. But maybe, if we wanted to have a unique design that no other shop is using, this could still be a good choice. It just requires more time and a large budget to do so. Creating your own...

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