The document discusses the advantages of using WooCommerce as an e-commerce solution, highlighting its suitability for businesses of all sizes despite common myths suggesting otherwise. It also provides guidance on developing WooCommerce-compatible themes and the essential features that can enhance an online store. Additionally, it addresses the limitations of WooCommerce and suggests third-party plugins to overcome these shortcomings.

2. WooCommerce – The Best Alternative
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Why Choose WooCommerce,
Basics for WooCommerce Compatible Theme Development.
Sadip Bhattarai
Magento Theme Developer, AccessShop Themes
Team Lead, 8Degree Themes

3. Why WooCommerce among other
eCommerce Solutions?

4. Few e-Commerce Solutions(CMS).

5. Why WordPress + WooCommerce
would be best solution?
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plugins

6. Compatative Study of
E-Commerce Solutions

7. File Size
(On fresh .zip downloads)

8. Database
Tables(At the time of installation)

10. Learning Curve

11. Some Myths
• WooCommerce is only for small business, It
cannot handle large number of products.
For example:
•Soul Brother Records (https://soulbrother.com/shop/ ) has 40000+ products
•Spectator Shop (http://shop.spectator.co.uk/) has 1500+ products and 2.5 Million
PageViews/Month
•Entrepeneur (http://bookstore.entrepreneur.com/) has 93 Million Monthly PageView
Source : https://gplclub.org/top-5-largest-woocommerce-stores/

12. It lacks few other e-commerce required things
like wishlist,compare features.
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Ofcourse this can be overcome by using third
party plugins.
Shortcomings

13. Some More Ecommerce Solutions
with WordPress
And many more…

15. Basics of WooCommerce
Compatible WordPress Theme
Development

16. How to start developing
WooCommerce Theme?
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17. Take a basic WordPress Theme
You can get blank theme from underscores.me
OR
Create your own custom Theme.
(https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development)

18. Declaration of WooCommerce
support

19. Customization of WooCommerce
Using Templates Files

20. Using Hooks & Filters

21. Options in Customizer

22. How to add?

23. Use of few plugins for fulfillment of
ecommerce needs

24. Do Not Miss Me
• Include Product Catalog Search
• Product & Categories Showcase
• New Arrivals
• On Sale
• Categorised

25. Design Perspective

26. Any Questions?
That’s all.

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