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WooCommerce: WordPress Plugin Tutorial

A complete WooCommerce tutorial: set up the plugin, build products, handle orders and coupons, and launch a real WordPress store from scratch.

14 lessons
46 min
Included with membership
Get founding access — $99 →In production. Included in the founding membership the day it releases

This WooCommerce tutorial takes you from an empty WordPress site to a working online store you can actually launch. Across 14 lessons you'll set the store up properly, build a real product catalog, handle live orders and refunds, and finish by building and test-driving a variable product store end to end. By the last lesson you'll understand how the whole shop fits together, not just where the buttons are.

What you'll learn

WooCommerce powers a huge share of the web's online stores, and knowing how to run one is a genuinely marketable skill. This course frames the WooCommerce plugin the way a store owner needs it: settings that keep tax, shipping, and payments correct, a product catalog that stays organized as it grows, and an order process you can manage with confidence when something goes wrong. After finishing you'll be able to configure a store from the setup wizard onward, create both simple and variable products, issue refunds, run coupons, and read your sales reports. The capstone t-shirt store ties every piece together so the knowledge sticks.

Inside the course

  • Module 1 · Store Foundation: Installing WooCommerce & the Setup Wizard · General & Product Settings · Tax, Shipping & Payment Settings · Accounts, Emails & Advanced Settings · Storefront Tour: Shop, Cart, Checkout & My Account
  • Module 2 · Products: Product Categories, Tags & Global Attributes · Creating a Simple Product: Product Data Deep Dive · Managing the Product Catalog
  • Module 3 · Orders, Customers & Marketing: The Order Lifecycle · Refunds and Order Problem-Solving · Coupons · Analytics & Reports
  • Module 4 · Capstone: The T-Shirt Store: Building a Variable Product with Variations · Launching and Test-Driving the Store

Who this course is for

This is for anyone ready to sell online with WordPress — small business owners, freelancers building stores for clients, and side-project sellers. You should be comfortable with the basics of the WordPress dashboard; you don't need any prior e-commerce experience. It's an intermediate, hands-on course rather than a five-minute overview.

Frequently asked questions

Is this WooCommerce course free?
No. This is a paid course and part of the WP Tutoring membership, which gives you lifetime access to it and the full library. WooCommerce itself is a free plugin — the course is the guided training on how to run a store with it.
Do I need coding to use WooCommerce?
No. Everything in this WooCommerce tutorial is done through the WordPress dashboard and WooCommerce's own screens. You'll configure settings, build products, and manage orders without writing any code.
Can I sell products with variations, like sizes and colors?
Yes. The course covers global attributes and dedicates its capstone to building a variable product — the t-shirt store — with real variations, then launching and test-driving it. You'll see the full process from product data to checkout.

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