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The WooCommerce Explained Book Is Here

Today, I'm delighted to announce the official launch of "WooCommerce Explained".

This book will teach everything you need to know to make a WooCommerce site. And, it will do it in plain English, with a simple step-by-step approach.

We've partnered with Patrick Rauland for this book. Patrick was project lead at WooCommerce and currently helps to run WooConf, the official developers' conference.

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! This book is over 250 pages long and is packed with WooCommerce knowledge.



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How to Use Font Awesome in Photoshop Designs

The old-fashioned technique to create icons used to be manually cropping images to work as icons.

This was extremely time-consuming. Now Google's Font Awesome icons solve this issue.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to place a Font Awesome icon in your Photoshop web document by simply typing in the icon's name.



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How to Embed WordPress Posts and WooCommerce Products

You probably know that WordPress makes it easy to embed social media in Posts and Pages.

But did you know that you can easily embed snippets from WordPress posts and WooCommerce products in other content, using just a URL?

Here's an overview of how WordPress allows you to share posts on other sites (and even your own site).



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Is WooCommerce or Magento Best for Your E-Commerce Store?

Magento and WooCommerce are both huge players in online selling.

When you're deciding on an online sales channel, how do you choose between these two titans of ecommerce?

Both have their advantages and disadvantages, so let's take a look and compare them.



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How to Add a Preview Image to WordPress Videos

WordPress makes adding videos easy. However, many WordPress users don't realize that they can make their videos more attractive.

In particular, it often helps to add a preview image to your videos. An eye-catching preview image can really draw attention to your video. If you allow the preview image be chosen automatically, you can often end up with a snapshot taken at a bad moment in the video.

Please note, this will only work with videos that you have directly uploaded and stored in WordPress. This won't work with WordPress YouTube, WordPress Vimeo, or WordPress Wistia videos.

This tutorial will show you how to add a custom preview image to your WordPress videos.



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Things to Know Before Installing Magento

Are you planning to add a website to your brick-and-mortar store? If Yes, then running your site on Magento could be one of your best choices.

You have several options to install Magento. In this tutorial, you will learn what you need to know before installing it.



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How to Create Password Protected Posts in WordPress

Did you know that WordPress offer the ability to password-protect the posts that you write?

This feature doesn't require a plugin and is a core feature of WordPress.

In this short, I'm going to show you how to create protected posts. Each WordPress post will need it's own password, so this won't work for protecting a whole site.



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New French Law May Cause Havoc With ECommerce Platforms

A new law in France is threatening to cause major headaches for e-commerce platforms.

First off, thanks to Olivier Karfis for the heads up on this, and the links that helped me understand what's going on.

This started two years ago because French politicians decided to combat VAT fraud.



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5 Top WordPress Project Management Plugins

WordPress is the key technology tool for many companies. They use it for marketing, e-commerce, CRM and 1,0001 tasks. So, it's not surprising that a lot of WordPress users also rely on it for project management. After all, if you allow customers to pay you on your WordPress site, or raise a support ticket there, why not also collaborate on projects using the same platform.

In this overview, we'll introduce to 5 of the best WordPress project management plugins. All 5 have free versions available on WordPress.org. You can download them, test them, and see if they're a good fit for you and your projects.



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Display a Search Module as a Joomla Top Menu Item

It's very common for websites to put features inside top menus. You may find some sites do this with a login form. Others - with an advertisement or a search field.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to embed a search module inside your Joomla top menu as a menu item. Without any coding. To do the job, we'll just use a free and very popular extension called Modules Anywhere.



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