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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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Using the available widgets and shortcodes

When you installed WooCommerce, you also received a number of possibilities that you can use to show products to your visitors. Of course there are the default available shop, category and product pages. But sometimes, you need more than that. Let's look at the other options that WooCommerce offers by default.

WooCommerce offers the following widgets, that you can reach from the Theme customizer or via Appearance | Widgets:

  • WooCommerce Layered Nav Filters
  • WooCommerce Price filter
  • WooCommerce Product Categories
  • WooCommerce Products
  • WooCommerce Product Search
  • WooCommerce Product Tags
  • WooCommerce Recently Viewed
  • WooCommerce Recent Review
  • WooCommerce Top Rated Products

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Using the available widgets and shortcodes

Using these widgets is easy and works just like any other WordPress widget. Using a couple of these in your sidebar gives your visitors the flexibility they need to find their way in your store. In the example below you see we activated the following widgets:...

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