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Theme fully support WooCommerce plugin, which will transform your WordPress website into a thorough-bred online eCommerce store. Delivering enterprise-level quality and features whilst backed by a name you can trust. Say hello to the WooCommerce eCommerce plugin.
Minimum Requirements
- WordPress 3.3 or greater
- PHP version 5.2.4 or greater
- MySQL version 5.0 or greater
- Some payment gateways require fsockopen support (for IPN access)
Getting Started
The first step in setting up your WooCommerce powered online store is of course installing the plugin itself. But before you do so, please check the minimum server requirements:
- An install of WordPress 3.0 or greater
- PHP 5.2.4 or greater
- MySQL 5.0 or greater
- The mod_rewrite Apache module (for permalinks)
- fsockopen support (for payment gateway IPN access)
If these criteria are not met you will no doubt run into issues with WooCommerce.
Installation
Automatic installation
Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t even need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of WooCommerce, log in to your WordPress admin panel, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New. In the search field type “WooCommerce” and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found our eCommerce plugin you can view details about it such as the the point release, rating and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by simply clicking Install Now. After clicking that link you will be asked if you’re sure you want to install the plugin. Click yes and WordPress will automatically complete the installation.
Manual installation
The manual installation method involves downloading our eCommerce plugin and uploading it to your webserver via your favourite FTP application.
- Download the plugin file to your computer and unzip it
- Using an FTP program, or your hosting control panel, upload the unzipped plugin folder to your WordPress installation’s wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Activate the plugin from the Plugins menu within the WordPress admin.
Upgrading
Automatic updates should work a charm; as always though, ensure you backup your site just in case. If on the off chance you do encounter issues with the shop/category pages after an update you simply need to flush the permalinks by going to WordPress > Settings > Permalinks and hitting ‘save’. That should return things to normal.
Detailed User Guide
To view the detailed user guide, visit this wiki page and you’ll definitely find an answer for your qustions:
WooCommerce Shortcodes
WooCommerce comes with several shortcodes which can be used to insert content inside posts and pages. The following shortcodes are inserted into pages upon installation and therefore shouldn’t need to be used anywhere else:
- [woocommerce_cart] – shows the cart page
- [woocomerce_checkout] – shows the checkout page
- [woocommerce_pay] – shows the checkout pay page
- [woocommerce_order_tracking] – shows the order tracking form
- [woocommerce_my_account] – shows the user account page
- [woocommerce_edit_address] – shows the user account edit address page
- [woocommerce_view_order] – shows the user account view order page
The following shortcodes can be used anywhere you want:
- [product_slider] – Display your products inside a responsive slider.
- [best_sellers] – Displays best selling products.
- [items] – Display products from your catalog. Order them however you like
- [product_categories] – Show product categories with thumbnails.
- [add_to_cart] – Show ‘Add to cart’ button for product ID
- Examples: http://demo.bizzthemes.com/bizz-store/woocommerce-shortcodes/
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