Imagine having the power to create your very own online storefront, tailored to your unique vision and completely free. This power is now at your fingertips, thanks to this tutorial. Learn how to utilize WordPress to create an eCommerce website, and embrace the year 2022 while doing it. Your guide on this exciting venture is none other than Nayyar Shaikh. Nayyar will walk you through the process, sharing beneficial insights and practical guidelines every step of the way.
This tutorial makes the most of the finest free eCommerce WooCommerce theme, Woostify, and pairs it with the complimentary page builder, Elementor. Get insights on the necessary plugins, website design, and how to optimize for mobile and tablet interfaces. With a design inspired by leading eCommerce websites such as Amazon and Walmart, you will be equipped with the know-how to produce a professional-looking eCommerce store. You’ll master various website aspects from creating nuanced product descriptions to managing orders – all under the guidance of Nayyar Shaikh.
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Explaining the Basics of Creating an eCommerce Website with WordPress
Understanding the concept of eCommerce site
Online commerce, simply known as eCommerce, is an internet-based business model that facilitates customers from all over the world to shop at their convenience, without the need to step out of their house. It’s the perfect blend of technology and traditional shopping, providing consumers with the best of both worlds.
Exploring WordPress as a platform for site creation
Now, WordPress is a powerful platform to feature your products or services online. It offers flexibility, easy customization features, and a user-friendly interface that makes the job of creating an online store easier than you might think.
Introducing Nayyar Shaikh as the guide in the tutorial
This tutorial is brought to you by Nayyar Shaikh, an experienced professional well-versed in creating and operating eCommerce sites on WordPress. He will guide you through each step, ensuring you can replicate each process efficiently.
Getting familiar with the best free eCommerce WooCommerce Theme Woostify
Woostify is a fantastic free WooCommerce theme that we’ll use to build our eCommerce website. It is lightweight, fast, full-featured, and customizable, all essential traits for running an efficient online store.
Knowing the role of a free page builder named Elementor
Elementor is an incredibly versatile and user-friendly page builder for WordPress that we’ll use in our tutorial. It allows you to custom-design your web pages using a variety of templates and widgets, and it requires no coding knowledge.
Highlighting the utility of the best free plugins for WordPress
WordPress Plugins are apps that allow you to add new features and functionalities to your WordPress website. Nayyar will introduce you to the best free plugins that will enhance your eCommerce site’s performance and make it more appealing to your customers.
Exploring Website features
Mentioning the inspiration from popular eCommerce websites
Our eCommerce site is inspired by the best – popular websites like Amazon, Walmart, Flipkart, and AliExpress to name a few. Their professional layouts, easy navigability, and customer-centric design form the basis of our design.
Detailing the feature of creating any type of product
We strive to accommodate everyone in our tutorial, so whether you’re selling physical products, digital products, or even affiliate goods, you’ll learn to create, categorize, and display them beautifully in your store.
Explaining the shipping and tax calculation capabilities
Our tutorial helps you automate the complex tasks of calculating shipping fees and taxes based on customer’s address and product dimensions. Save time and avoid errors by letting your website do the math for you.
Describing checkout options and order notifications
An easy, secure checkout process is fundamental to conversions. You’ll learn how to set up various checkout options, accept different payment methods, and promptly send out order notifications.
Steps to Create Webpages
Creating a homepage, banners, categories section, featured products section
Nayyar will guide you through setting up a stunning homepage – complete with eye-catching banners, a neatly arranged categories section, and a featured products area that showcases your most appealing offerings.
Setting up testimonial section, Instagram section
Next, you’ll add a testimonials section to flaunt your happy customers’ reviews and an Instagram section to integrate your social media presence into your website.
Creating blog posts and menus and footers
Our tutorial covers how to create engaging blog posts, set up clear, intuitive menus, and design informational footers. Each element adds value and improves the user experience on your site.
Understanding shop and blog sidebars
Add an extra layer of functionality and convenience to your site with sidebars. Learn to set up sidebars on your shop and blog pages containing useful widgets.
Discussing product purchase and order management
We move now to the end-user experience. Watch customers going through product selection to checkout and learn to manage orders effectively once they’re placed.
Explaining Website Performance
Emphasising on responsiveness for mobile and tablet screens
The number of people who use their mobiles and tablets to shop online is increasing every day, so ensuring that your online store is mobile-friendly is more important than ever. We discuss just that.
Focussing on optimizing for SEO settings
Our tutorial will help you optimize your website for SEO. By enhancing your site’s visibility in search engine results, you can attract more traffic and increase sales.
Discussing security through SSL certification
Security is fundamental to trust. Learn how to secure your site with an SSL certification to accept secure payments and preserve your customers’ trust.
Exploring the need for a good hosting provider
A good web host is the foundation of your website. Identify the needs for a good hosting provider that ensure your site’s speed, performance, user experience, and security.
Decoding the Functionality of WooCommerce
The role of WooCommerce in eCommerce functionalities
WooCommerce, a WordPress plugin, transforms your website into a fully-functioning eCommerce platform. Understand its role in creating, managing, and displaying your products.
Creating digital download product
Are you planning to sell software, music, or e-books? This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a digitally downloadable product using WooCommerce.
Facilitating affiliate product creation
Expand your product range without having to keep inventory by affiliating with other sellers. We explain how to facilitate affiliate program creation.
Navigating product variations using attributes
Learn to navigate product variations using WooCommerce attributes. This feature allows your customers to choose from different sizes, colors, and other product features easily, enhancing their shopping experience.
Understanding Product Setup
Defining an SKU for product
Proper inventory management is crucial to an eCommerce business. Learn how to define a Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) for your products to keep your inventory organized and traceable.
Filling up shipping details of product
Understand how to accurately fill out shipping details for your products. These details can assist your online store in automatically calculating shipping costs accurately.
Describing a product in short
A short, enticing product description can motivate browsing customers to make a purchase. Learn to write effective short descriptions for each item listed on your online store.
Categorizing a product for easy future creation
Learn how to categorize your products so that you can easily add similar items in the future. It also makes it easy for your customers to find just what they’re looking for.
Adding a video link for the product
Sometimes, describing your product using text and images isn’t enough. Add a video link so customers can see your product in action. Nayyar will go over how to do this in the tutorial.
Managing main product image and extra gallery images
A picture’s worth a thousand words, and when selling products online, high-quality images are a must. Learn how to manage your main product image and extra gallery images effectively!
Customising the Look of the Webpage
Importing elements from platforms like Pixlr and Unsplash
Creating a visually stunning online store doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive. Nayyar will demonstrate how to import beautiful, high-quality elements from platforms like Pixlr and Unsplash.
Altering the global font family for consistency
Ensuring your website has a consistent font style is an overlooked but important aspect of design. Learn how to alter the global font family for your site, saving time, and maintaining a unified appearance.
Incorporating icons from FlatIcon.com
Including icons in your website design can enhance its visual appeal and functionality. Nayyar will show you how to incorporate icons into your eCommerce site using FlatIcon.com.
Personalizing elements like margins, borders, typography
In this tutorial, you will discover how to personalize and fine-tune your site’s design elements, such as margins, borders, and typography, to make your online store unique.
Specific Tips for Website Customization
Adjusting text setup and settings
Optimizing text setup and settings can enhance readability and provide a more pleasant browsing experience for your customers. Nayyar provides specific tips for doing this in the tutorial.
Featuring products in the shop page using shortcode
By using shortcode, WordPress allows you to execute code snippets within posts, pages, and widgets. Nayyar demonstrates how to use this feature to display selected products on your shop page.
Adjusting padding for text and images
Creating a clean, well-spaced layout can make your website more attractive and easier to navigate. You’ll learn how to adjust padding for text and images to achieve this effect.
Creating testimonials sections with unique shapes using border-radius
Customer testimonials are a potent way to build trust with prospective customers. We’ll walk you through creating testimonial sections and how to use border-radius to design unique shapes.
Designing a Blog Page
Creating individual blog posts
Including a blog on your eCommerce site can boost SEO, build your audience, and generate more sales. We cover how to create engaging blog posts that your audience will love.
Altering content size, adding a drop cap, setting up columns
Changing the layout and look of your blog posts can attract your readers’ attention and improve readability. Learn how to alter content size, add a drop cap, and set up columns in your blog posts.
Adding features like images, a featured image, categorizing posts under tags
Adding images, highlighting a featured image, and categorizing posts under tags helps organize your content and make it attractive and engaging. Nayyar explains how to use these elements in your WordPress blog page.
Conclusion of the Tutorial
Subscribing, liking, and sharing the tutorial
Nayyar ends the tutorial by inviting viewers to subscribe to his channel, like, and share the tutorial. This way, you won’t miss any future explanations, and more people can benefit from these helpful guides.
Encouragement for viewers to comment or query in the comment section
Never hesitate to ask for help or clarification! Nayyar encourages viewers to comment their queries, thoughts, or suggestions in the comment section. Whether it’s about this tutorial, or any other aspect of WordPress and eCommerce, Nayyar and the community are there to assist you.