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Minimum Requirements

• WordPress 3.5 or greater
• PHP version 5.2.4 or greater
• MySQL version 5.0 or greater
• Some payment gateways require fsockopen support (for IPN access)

Automatic installation

Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t even need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of WooCommerce, log in to your WordPress admin panel, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.

In the search field type “WooCommerce” and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found our eCommerce plugin you can view details about it such as the the point release, rating and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by simply clicking Install Now. After clicking that link you will be asked if you’re sure you want to install the plugin. Click yes and WordPress will automatically complete the installation.

Manual installation

The manual installation method involves downloading our eCommerce plugin and uploading it to your webserver via your favourite FTP application.

1. Download the plugin file to your computer and unzip it
2. Using an FTP program, or your hosting control panel, upload the unzipped plugin folder to your WordPress installation’s wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Activate the plugin from the Plugins menu within the WordPress admin.

Upgrading

Automatic updates should work like a charm; as always though, ensure you backup your site just in case.

If on the off-chance you do encounter issues with the shop/category pages after an update you simply need to flush the permalinks by going to WordPress > Settings > Permalinks and hitting 'save'. That should return things to normal.

Dummy data

WooCommerce comes with some dummy data you can use to see how products look; either import dummy_data.xml via the WordPress importer or use our CSV Import Suite plugin to import dummy_data.csv and dummy_data_variations.csv.

Premium Extensions

Click here to view our extensions. Some of our more popular plugins are listed below.

• Functionality
  • Dynamic Pricing - Bulk discounts, role based pricing and more.
  • Product Addons - Create personalised products.
  • Gravity Forms Addons - Create personalised products using gravity forms.
  • Currency Converter Widget - Dynamically switch the currency of displayed prices.
  • Product Enquiry Form - Allow visitors to email you enquiries about a product.
  • Facebook Tab - Sell your products via your Facebook page.
  • Google Product Feed - Add your products to Google Product Search.
  • Newsletter Subscription - Allow customers to subscribe to your MailChimp or CampaignMonitor mailing list.
• Shipping
  • Shipment Tracking - Add tracking info to orders
  • Table rate shipping - Create rules based on country/postcode, weight, cart items, and price.
  • UPS Shipping Method - Get calculated shipping rates from UPS
  • USPS Shipping Method - Get calculated shipping rates from USPS.
  • FedEx Shipping Method - Get calculated shipping rates from FedEx.
• Payment
  • PayPal Pro - Direct gateway
  • PayPal Express - Skip the WooCommerce checkout in favour of PayPal
  • Authorize.net DPM - Form based gateway
• Import/Export
  • Product CSV Import Suite - Import and Export variations and products via a CSV
  • Order/Customer CSV Export - Export your orders and customer records to a CSV

Free Extensions

WordPress.org is home to some cool free extensions too (search WordPress.org for more).

• WooCommerce Admin Bar Addition - Adds useful admin links and resources for the WooCommerce eCommerce Plugin to the WordPress Toolbar / Admin Bar.
• WooCommerce Delivery Notes - Print delivery Notes for orders.
• Affiliates WooCommerce Integration Light - Integrates Affiliates with WooCommerce.
• WooCommerce Multilingual - Allows running multilingual e-commerce sites using WooCommerce and WPML.
• WooCommerce Grid / List Toggle - Display products in grid or list format.
• WooCommerce Customizer - Customise button text, labels and more from the dashboard.
• WooCommerce Custom Product Tabs Lite - Easily create custom tabs for your WooCommerce products.