Create an online store with free WordPress plugin and quickly start selling to customers. Manage WordPress website and store from a single interface.
Most of you are familiar with WordPress. WordPress is one of the leading platform for creating websites, blogs etc. There are tons of plugins available at marketplace that allow you to enhance the functionality. One of them is WooCommerce cart plugin helps users to set up online store. WooCommerce is one of the best eCommerce plugin for WordPress, easy-to-use, customizable and robust eCommerce platform. Moreover, it’s built on top of WordPress and use its power to quickly turn your business to large audience.
We will cover the following topics in this tutorial.
Install WordPress
You can skip this section and move to the next one if you already have WordPress installed. In case you don’t have WordPress setup, you can find step by step guideline for installation at containerize.com.
Install WooCommerce Plugin
In order to set up WooCommerce, follow these steps:
- Login to admin panel of your WordPress site.
- Navigate to Plugins and click Add New button.
- Type WooCommerce in the search field and you will see it as the first search result.
- Click Install Now button next to WooCommerce plugin.
- It would take few moments for installation. Click on Activate button once you done with installation.
Setup Store With WooCommerce
The Setup Wizard guides you through all the required steps to create your store. Follow the below steps and your store will be ready to start selling.
- Set location for your store.
- Select in which industry your store operate.
- Select type of products that will be listed at your store.
- You need to provide information about your business in this step.
- Choose appropriate theme for your store. You can choose free or paid one from the list. Also, you can upload your own theme as well.
- Once you are done with the wizard, you need to set up few pages such as products, payments, tax, shipping, and personalize store as shown in the below screen.
Conclusion
We’ve discussed how to setup WordPress and WooCommerce cart in this tutorial. We hope that this guide will help you build your online store. However, you may check out WooCommerce Storefront for selecting right theme for the shop.
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