In this post, we have prepared a curated top list of reading recommendations for beginners and experienced. This hand-picked list of the best Woocommerce books and tutorials can help fill your brain this May and ensure you’re getting smarter. We have also mentioned the brief introduction of each book based on the relevant Amazon or Reddit descriptions.
- Woocommerce User Manual for Beginners: Build your own ecommerce on WordPress (2017)
- Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce – Second Edition (2015)
- WooCommerce Explained: Your Step-by-Step Guide to WooCommerce (2017)
- Professional WordPress: Design and Development (2015)
- Visual Guide to WooCommerce (2014)
- WooCommerce Cookbook (2015)
- How to create an Online Store using WooCommerce and WordPress (2017)
- WooCommerce tutorial- How to Set it up on Your Website? (2017)
- Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce (2013)
Woocommerce User Manual for Beginners: Build your own ecommerce on WordPress (2017)
WooCommerce is a an e-commerce plugin (extension or add-on) for WordPress. Basically, it is an open-source platform offering the functionality of a full-fledged e-shop. The beauty of WooCommerce is in the possibility of connecting to any WordPress website or WordPress blog without having to use a special template.
Author(s): Michal Bradek
Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce – Second Edition (2015)
Building an online store is often considered to be a difficult, complex task. Using the combination of WordPress and the WooCommerce plugin, this is no longer the case. WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce platform for WordPress and is being rapidly developed by WooThemes. It provides a strong e-commerce solution to set up your own online store in just a couple of hours.
Author(s): Robbert Ravensbergen
WooCommerce Explained: Your Step-by-Step Guide to WooCommerce (2017)
WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce platform on the web and is capable of selling anything, whether it’s physical products, digital products or services. If you want to spend less time struggling with complex instructions, and more time building sites that make you proud, this is the book for you! The OSTraining team has taught thousands of beginners – and thousands more who’ve experimented with WooCommerce but haven’t mastered it yet. Nobody knows more about guiding WooCommerce users up the learning curve – from confusion to results! The OSTraining team makes learning fun.
Author(s): Patrick Rauland, Stephen Burge
Professional WordPress: Design and Development (2015)
The highest rated WordPress development and design book on the market is back with an all new third edition. Professional WordPress is the only WordPress book targeted to developers, with advanced content that exploits the full functionality of the most popular CMS in the world.
Author(s): Brad Williams, David Damstra
Visual Guide to WooCommerce (2014)
Do you need help setting up and monitoring your WooCommerce eStore? Step-by-Step Visual Guide to WooCommerce E-Commerce / Internet Marketing) is a quick guide to using your WooCommerce store WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin designed to help businesses sell their products to customers. With WooCommerce, your customers can order items quickly and efficiently. WooCommerce lets website owners operating their stores add new products, edit existing products, and mange customer orders without difficulty. With WooCommerce, you can even sell variations of products.
Author(s): Mandy Oviatt, Lyle Dillie
WooCommerce Cookbook (2015)
Create, design, and manage your own personalized online store with WooCommerce, the fastest growing e-commerce platform. If you have ever built or managed a WordPress site and want to add e-commerce functionality into your site, WooCommerce and this book are perfect for you. Learning how to use WooCommerce through this series of recipes will give you a solid platform to add any future e-commerce needs.
Author(s): Patrick Rauland
How to create an Online Store using WooCommerce and WordPress (2017)
2 Edition: New Guides on WooCommerce functionality. This book comes from my experience with WordPress and continuous use of WooCommerce. Currently it is increasingly demand the ability to create a personal website able to sell products in simple and practical ways. This guide was born for this, namely to allow even those who are not expert coding, to sell their products, physical or digital, in a short time and totally free. In my personal website: www.rpcreative.net I currently use WooCommerce and publish articles for those who want to give a sprint more to their creativity.
Author(s): Riccardo Andronaco
WooCommerce tutorial- How to Set it up on Your Website? (2017)
Create the online store you want with the core set of powerful features and options that come straight out of the box with the free WooCommerce plugin. –> Built for WordPress –> Sell anything, anywhere –> Mobile friendly –> Scalability –> Own your data –> Secure code –> Open source
Author(s): Sunny Chanday
Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce (2013)
The WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is probably the world’s simplest way to build an online store, and this brilliant tutorial makes it easier still. Use your existing knowledge of PHP and WordPress to get selling, fast. Building an online store is often considered to be a difficult and complex task. Using the combination of WordPress and the WooCommerce plugin, this is no longer the case. WooCommerce is built using WordPress best practices both on the frontend
Author(s): Robbert Ravensbergen
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Best Woocommerce Books You Must Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some Woocommerce books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Building Your Online Store With WordPress and WooCommerce: Learn to Leverage the Critical Role E-commerce Plays in Today’s Competitive Marketplace
Author(s): Lisa Sims
ID: 2273728, Publisher: Apress, Year: 2018, Size: 12 Mb, Format: pdf
Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce, 2nd Edition: Transform your WordPress website into a fully-featured e-commerce store with the power of WooCommerce
Author(s): Robbert Ravensbergen
ID: 1525188, Publisher: Packt Publishing, Year: 2015, Size: 7 Mb, Format: pdf
WooCommerce Cookbook
Author(s): Patrick Rauland
ID: 2163151, Publisher: Packt Publishing, Year: 2015, Size: 5 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are truly chart-busters according to The New York Times, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.