An overview of the WooCommerce plugin for WordPress (and some of its extensions) presented to the East Bay WordPress Meetup on July 21st, 2013 by Sallie Goetsch
6. Why Woo?
At our last meetup
about e-commerce
plugins (March
2011),
WooCommerce
didn’t exist. Since
then it’s been
downloaded more
than 1 million
times.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/woo
commerce/stats/
9. Don’t Care about the Dirt?
• Try both plugins—both are free, with
paid add-ons.
• They still have many similar features.
• The two continue to diverge.
• Some claim Woo provides better
support and documentation.
• Pick the one you like best, or a different
plugin entirely.
10. What Can You Sell with
WooCommerce?
• Physical Products
• Downloadable (Virtual) Products
• External (Affiliate) Products
• Grouped Products
• Variable Products
• Classes (with $99 Sensei add-on)
• Subscriptions (with $99 add-on)
http://docs.woothemes.com/document/managing-products/
18. Rates Not Included
Get tax rates from
http://www.taxrates.com/.
There’s also a WooCommerce
tax plugin at http://www.pnw-
design.com/wordpress-plugins/
34. WooCommerce Receipt
Email can be customized
with templates. (This
wasn’t.)
Receipt includes
information collected via
Gravity Forms and stored
in a cookie (custom work
for client)
42. The Good, Bad, & Ugly
Pros
• Base plugin is free &
powerful
• Handles many types of
products, including CSV
import
• Works with most
themes
• Decent documentation
Cons
• Cost of extensions adds
up fast
• Doesn’t do donations
• API is display-based, not
function-based
• Many Woo Themes
interfere with CSS
• Not intuitive enough to
use without docs