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    Free Multilingual E-Commerce With WordPress, WooCommerce & Polylang
    Free Multilingual E-Commerce With WordPress, WooCommerce & Polylang
    Free Multilingual E-Commerce With WordPress, WooCommerce & Polylang
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    Free Multilingual E-Commerce With WordPress, WooCommerce & Polylang

    By Andrew F. Burton

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    About this ebook

    Do you want to set up an E-commerce site with WooCommerce and WordPress in multiple languages without getting migraines? Well, look no further! This book will show you the complete process step by step, with nothing but freely available open source WordPress plugins.

    About This Book

    - A step-by-step guide on how to set up a multilingual online store with WooCommerce, the most popular E-commerce solution for WordPress, and the free WordPress plugin Polylang.
    - With open source code that you can apply directly to your WordPress website. The code snippets are also available for download from a supporting website.
    - With a comprehensive index
    - The author is open for feedback, so you can make this book better by contributing to it!

    Who Is This Book For?

    You already know the basics of WooCommerce (and, naturally, WordPress), and now you want to create a multilingual store, so you wonder how to achieve that with free WordPress plugins. You're not looking for any dry theory or a WooCommerce general beginner's book, but a practical step-by-step guide.

    What Will You Learn?

    - Step-by-step you create an E-commerce site with WordPress and WooCommerce in multiple languages.
    - You create a Child WordPress theme and the theme functions.php file, so you can add all the code needed to make multilingual work.
    - Installing and configuring WooCommerce and create a product that's ready for translation.
    - Installing and working extensively with Polylang, a free WordPress that turns your WordPress site and your WooCommerce store multilingual.
    - Fixing issues by adding custom code to your theme's functions.php file.
    - How to edit WooCommerce language files directly.

    Author Bio:

    Have you ever had that feeling of being stuck in an unfulfilling professional life? The author knows this sounds awfully corny, but working with WordPress, and the great open source community surrounding it, gave his life the kick it thankfully needed.

    Andrew F. Burton received his initial professional training at Zurich Business School, and worked for decades in banking and finance-related industries when he wasn't backpacking around the world way back before the lame Lonely Planet days. When the web came along, he set up an Internet startup soon after the first web browser became popular. However, being an Internet pioneer in a small place like Switzerland didn't quite turn out the way he had wanted it to be, so he switched back to finance. He regrets not moving to the U.S. instead.

    When he discovered open source CMS and WordPress 3.0 that came out in 2010, he was instantly hooked. Always interested in getting the best out of WordPress for his clients, he now works as an independent consultant for all things Web in Switzerland, a country where being multilingual is part of an everyday life.

    He loves learning about web technologies, so over the years he has become quite familiar with the classic tools like HTML, CSS, PHP, jQuery, but also more recent ones like AngularJS and Ionic Framework.

    Last, but not least: The author feels that WordPress has one of the coolest communities, developers, designers and users, among others, that he's ever been in. He tries to take part in its local community in Switzerland whenever he has time to spare. He's also a member of the WordPress Meetup and WooCommerce Meetup in Zurich. He can be contacted via Twitter at woomultilingual.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew F. Burton
    Release dateJan 10, 2016
    ISBN9781310124990
    Free Multilingual E-Commerce With WordPress, WooCommerce & Polylang
    Author

    Andrew F. Burton

    Have you ever had that feeling of being stuck in an unfulfilling professional life? The author knows this sounds awfully corny, but working with WordPress, and the great open source community surrounding it, gave his life the kick it thankfully needed. Andrew F. Burton received his initial professional training at Zurich Business School, and worked for decades in banking and finance-related industries when he wasn't backpacking around the world way back before the lame Lonely Planet days. When the web came along, he set up an Internet startup soon after the first web browser became popular. However, being an Internet pioneer in a small place like Switzerland didn't quite turn out the way he had wanted it to be, so he switched back to finance. He regrets not moving to the U.S. instead. When he discovered open source CMS and WordPress 3.0 that came out in 2010, he was instantly hooked. Always interested in getting the best out of WordPress for his clients, he now works as an independent consultant for all things Web in Switzerland, a country where being multilingual is part of an everyday life. He loves learning about web technologies, so over the years he has become quite familiar with the classic tools like HTML, CSS, PHP, jQuery, but also more recent ones like AngularJS and Ionic Framework. Last, but not least: The author feels that WordPress has one of the coolest communities, developers, designers and users, among others, that he's ever been in. He tries to take part in its local community in Switzerland whenever he has time to spare. He's also a member of the WordPress Meetup and WooCommerce Meetup in Zurich. He can be contacted via Twitter @woomultilingual.

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      Free Multilingual E-Commerce With WordPress, WooCommerce & Polylang - Andrew F. Burton

      Table of Contents

      Cover

      Free Multilingual E-commerce With WordPress, WooCommerce & Polylang

      A Note on Updates

      Found an Error? Missing a Topic?

      Do You Need Support?

      Contact

      Version

      Changelog

      Preface

      Welcome

      Multilingual WordPress, E-commerce & WPML

      Why this book? What’s it about?

      Who is it for?

      How to use this book?

      The contents – a quick overview

      What You Need to Know & Tools You Need

      Important Note

      Notes

      Multilingual WooCommerce with Polylang – How Complete?

      The Multilingual Features Table

      Setting Up a Multilingual Store – Possible Workflow

      WooCommerce language files

      Theme (parent and child) language files

      Code snippet for correct WooCommerce Pages routing

      Further Strings translation using wpml-config.xml

      Chapter One – Creating a WordPress Child Theme

      Installing WordPress

      WordPress – Creating a Child Theme based on TwentyFifteen

      Notes

      Chapter Two – Installing WooCommerce

      Chapter Three – Configuring WooCommerce

      WooCommerce Permalinks – Product category and tag base – Important!

      WooCommerce Permalinks – Product permalink base

      Installing WordPress languages

      Installing WooCommerce languages

      Chapter Four – Installing Polylang

      Chapter Five – Configuring Polylang

      Chapter Six – Multilingual WooCommerce Products, Categories, Tags and Custom Fields

      Product Categories

      Products

      Product Tags and Custom Fields

      Notes

      Chapter Seven – Multilingual Product Image & Gallery

      Chapter Eight – Multilingual WooCommerce Pages

      Shop, Cart, Checkout, My Account, Order Tracking and Terms & Conditions

      Order Tracking

      Terms and Conditions

      Notes

      Chapter Nine – Set Up Multilingual WordPress Menus

      Chapter Ten – Multilingual WooCommerce Pages Routing

      Option One: Page Routing with default Shop Page slug from Permalinks Shop Base

      Step One – Adding a code snippet to functions.php

      Step Two – Multilingual Shop URLs in Menu

      Option Two: Page Routing with Shop Page containing the page slug

      Notes

      Chapter Eleven – Cart Page – Return to Shop & Continue Shopping Redirect

      Help! Redirect is not working – missing apply_filters()

      Notes

      Chapter Twelve – Product Attributes

      Creating Product Attributes

      Registering Taxonomy Product Attributes with Polylang

      Translating Product Attributes – Polylang Strings Translation

      Creating and Translating Attribute Terms

      Setting Attributes for Variable Products

      Setting Variations

      Notes

      Chapter Thirteen – Multilingual WooCommerce Widget Titles

      Chapter Fourteen – Shipping Classes

      Chapter Fifteen – Introduction to Strings Translation – With wpml-config.xml

      Flat Rate Label – Translate Method Title with wpml-config.xml

      Notes

      Chapter Sixteen – String Translation WooCommerce Shipping Options – wpml-config.xml

      Activating All Shipping Options

      Flat Rate Method Title – Translating Using Steps from Chapter Fifteen

      Retrieve All Shipping Label Strings - wpml-config.xml

      Remove Free from Shipping Method Labels

      Notes

      Chapter Seventeen – String Translation WooCommerce Checkout Options – wpml-config.xml

      Activating All Checkout Options

      Notes

      Chapter Eighteen – String Translation WooCommerce Emails Options – wpml-config.xml

      Email Options Main Page

      Individual Emails

      Chapter Nineteen – More WooCommerce String Translation – wpml-config.xml

      WooCommerce Currency Options

      WooCommerce Price Display Suffix (VAT/GST)

      Chapter Twenty – WooCommerce Helper Plugins String Translation – wpml-config.xml

      Stripe for WooCommerce – a credit card payment gateway

      WooCommerce Pay for Payment – options added to payment gateways

      Notes

      Chapter Twenty-One – Multilingual Shop Page tag

      Notes

      Chapter Twenty-Two – Add to Cart Label

      Possible Translation Issue with Add to Cart Label

      Add to Cart Label - Alternative to Theme language file: Use the get_text filter

      Notes

      Chapter Twenty-Three – Troubleshooting AJAX Issues – Cart & Checkout Page

      Notes

      Chapter Twenty-Four – Cart Validation – Avoiding Multilingual Product Duplication

      Chapter Twenty-Five – Editing WooCommerce Language Files – Working with Loco Translate

      Chapter Twenty-Six – Tips for Hard-to-reach Strings – Nested Options Arrays & pll_register_string

      Strings from nested options arrays – wpml-config.xml

      Polylang Functions – pll_register_string / pll__

      Notes

      Useful Links & Info

      WooCommerce and Polylang

      Polylang

      Polylang Functions Used

      WooCommerce

      WooCommerce and WPML

      WooCommerce Filters & Functions Used

      WordPress Functions and Filters Used

      WooCommerce Checkout Options - Chapter Seventeen

      Thank you for reading!

      Visit our web site for the code snippets of this book and Q & A:

      Did you like this book? Please share your thoughts!

      If you’ve got a moment, please leave a review at:

      About the Author

      Index

      Free Multilingual E-commerce

      With WordPress, WooCommerce & Polylang

      Published by Andrew F. Burton

      Distributed by Smashwords. Thank you guys!

      © Copyright 2016, Andrew F. Burton, Egg/Zurich, Switzerland

      All rights reserved.

      Cover design by Andrew F. Burton

      Cover Image by Igor Feuz

      Tool used for EPUB Creation:

      http://sigil-ebook.com/

      Thank you, guys!

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the express written permission of the copyright holder, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

      However, the code examples in this book are licensed under the GNU General Public License, the same version as WordPress, which you can read here:

      https://wordpress.org/about/gpl/

      Code may be downloaded from:

      http://woomultilingual.com/

      Or from GitHub:

      https://github.com/andrewfburton/free-multilingual-ecommerce-code-snippets

      Disclaimer:

      The author has made every possible effort in preparing this book to ensure that the information presented is accurate. Please note that the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Its author, and its selling points and distributors cannot be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this work.

      WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation. WooCommerce was formerly owned by WooThemes. Since May 2015 both are part of Automattic, Inc. The author does not guarantee the accuracy of information about trademark information of companies and products mentioned in this book.

      A Note on Updates

      WordPress and the plugins used in this book are under constant development, which means I try my best to keep this book updated. You would not want to work with an outdated book, and a few months could already make a book on tech useless.

      Whether you get an updated version of this book and when largely depends on how the selling point where you bought this book from handles updates. On my website (see Contact below) I always list the current version number of the book. If your book does not carry the most recent version number, please contact me.

      Found an Error? Missing a Topic?

      If you spot any errors in this book, or feel that a topic related to multilingual WooCommerce is missing, I’d appreciate it if you let me know. See the contact methods below.

      Do You Need Support?

      I set up a Questions & Answers section on my site, where I will try to answer general questions as best as I can. For anything beyond that, I do provide professional support for your particular WooCommerce multilingual setup using Polylang.

      Contact

      Website for code download and Q & A:

      http://woomultilingual.com/

      Contact form:

      http://woomultilingual.com/contact

      Twitter:

      https://twitter/woomultilingual

      Email:

      andy@woomultilingual.com

      Version

      1.2 - February 2016

      Changelog

      1.2 - February 2016 - Certain WordPress terminology (e.g. WordPress Administration Screens) corrected.

      1.1 - February 2016 - Screenshots updated to Polylang 1.8, texts amended, also for WooCommerce 2.5.x

      1.0 - January 2016 - Initial Book Release

      Preface

      Welcome

      H ope you enjoy this guide on how to set up a multilingual E-commerce site with WordPress, WooCommerce, and most of all, the WordPress plugin Polylang!

      Multilingual WordPress, E-commerce & WPML

      Do we need multilingual E-commerce?

      Even though English still appears to be the prime language of commerce and its cousin E-commerce, try telling that to a Chinese consumer, a buyer in South Asia or South America, or one of the 45 million Hispanophones [ 1 ] (yeah, I know, the word is a mouthful) living in the USA.

      At some point, the adjective multilingual could crop up into your life and perhaps you, as a WordPress developer, a consultant or an experienced WordPress webmaster, want to build an online shopping experience in multiple languages.

      For WordPress, there is one solution that appears to rule the whole multilingual arena and if you’ve looked at turning WooCommerce into a polyglot, it’s likely that you’ve already visited this web

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