show you, from start to finish, how to create your own web shop using WordPress and WooCommerce.

This video is both for people that already have a wordpress website and want to extend

it with a webshop, and for people that want to create a webshop from scratch, who do not

have a website yet.

Let me show you what we will cover in this tutorial. For the people that start from scratch,

I will show you how you can get your own domain name and web hosting, how to install WordPress,

and how to install a pre-made website that can be adjusted really easily. After that,

we will install WooCommerce --- an amazing free plug-in that enables you to sell products

through the Internet. Then we will create six different products. We start with a simple

product - just a hoodie. It can also be a cap, something with only one option; in this

case, a black hoodie.

Then we go to the variable product. What does that mean? It is one product but it can have

different variations like the size or the color. It can also say that a certain size

or color or something else is more expensive than the other options. Then we will create

a digital product, for instance a zoom session or coaching session. We will create a digital

downloadable product like an e-book or a ticket to a concert of Justin Bieber or someone else

if you prefer.

Then an affiliate product. This is a really nice market. You can promote other people's

products, and when they click on it, they go to your affiliate link and then when they

buy the product you promote, you get a commission. And then the latest one --- a grouped product

so you see one product again with different sizes and here I can decide how many I want

to have from everything. For each product, we will talk about the configuration options

like the price, inventory, categories. After that, you will learn how to configure the

shop page; how many columns should it have; how big should the images be, and then here

at the side we have a sidebar with widgets and widgets are extra functionalities to your

website. So here I can filter the products by price, so if I say, let's see, I want to

spend between 0 and 100 dollars and I filter it, then I see all the products that fall

into that category.

People can get through our categories. We have products on sale and if we add something

to the cart, there appears a new widget over here. It shows a subtotal amount and everything

we have in our cart. The same is available over here. So if I hover over here, I see

that and then I can view the cart or go to the checkout. If I view the cart, we see a

beautiful overview over here with everything we have in our cart and I can adjust it over

here. I can change this to 3, this one to 2, and I can update the cart. If we scroll

down, we see a subtotal over here and because this is the amount more than $100, I decided

that the shipping is free. We will talk about shipping based on where people live, based

on a subtotal of the cart and based on the weight of everything that is in the cart.

We will talk about coupon codes, so I made this $20 dollars and if I apply the coupon,

I see we get 20 dollars of discount and here there are a lot of options. You can say by

the $20 dollars, you can say percentage, free shipping -- we will go in depth about this

subject. We will talk about my favorite subject, not, but it's good to talk about it --- Taxes.

How you can set it up manually with different countries, states, normal and reduced tax

rates and I will show you how to apply these settings automatically, which is, in my opinion,

a much better option.

Then we will talk about payment methods so that visitors can go to the checkout page,

finish their order and pay money that will be added to your bank account. I will show

you how to handle incoming orders and keep your buyers up to date with the progress of

the order.

When you apply what I teach in this tutorial, you are able to start selling products through

the internet. Well I believe that your time is valuable, that's why, I created an overview

for you so you can skip certain parts if you have done them already.

If you're starting from scratch, I will show you how you can get your own domain name and

web hosting and I can offer you a 70% discount. Then we will install WordPress and after that

we will import a pre-made website. After that, we're going to create an amazing webshop and

if you have done step one. two and three already, take a look at this time stamp and then you

can immediately go to the WooCommerce part. In the description of the video I have time

stamps, so if you want to go to a certain part of the tutorial, you can click on the

timestamp and it will go directly to the part of the tutorial.

If I go too fast for you, you can slow down the speed of the video over here. I've been

making tutorials for over five years now and people seem to love my videos. I do my best

to get better and better, so I can reach more people with my teachings. If you have any

question or feedback, feel free to leave a comment below the video. If you like what

you're seeing so far, or you think I'm a nice guide, please like this video; subscribe for

more upcoming WordPress related videos and when you hit the bell icon next to the subscribe

button, you get a notification when I upload a new video. So having said that let's get

started.

The first things we need are: a domain name and web hosting. If you have that already

that is great then you can skip this part. If you don't have it, let's go to webhosting124.com.

Then you can click over here to go to siteground is, in my opinion, the best web hosting provider

there is. I tried a lot of web hosting companies and I found out that siteground is the best

one, and it's not only my opinion that they are the best, there's a Facebook group all

about web hosting and every year there's a poll with who is the best web hosting provider

and siteground is number one every year.

The web sites here are super fast, you can call them 24/7 or you can open a chat session

with them. I had a few times that I had no idea how to figure something out and then

I went to the chat session and within a few minutes they were able to help me. At the

chat they can say you should do this and this and this, but they often say let me do it

for you if you want to. So the support is amazing. Because Siteground believes in their

product and their service, they offer you a 30-day money back guarantee. So if you somehow

do not like it, you can get your money back. So there's no risk for you. I don't think

you will cancel within 30 days. It's amazing to get a domain name or web hosting through

siteground. I host all my websites here and I will walk you through the plans.

There are three plans. There's the StartUp Plan, the GrowBig Plan and the GoGeek plan.

The startup package is $3.95 per month. In euros, it's the same €3.95. You can have

one website, that means one domain, then there's 10 gigabyte of web space which is more than

enough and 10,000 visits per month which is also more than enough when you start. You

can install WordPress for free --- there's free SSL. What is SSL? With that, your website

becomes secure. With other web hosting companies, you need to pay money for that. There's even

one where you need to pay $120 per year to get as a SSL. With Siteground it is free.

You can have free email addresses like info@yourdomain or ferdy@yourdomain or your own name and your

domain, and daily backups. So if you mess up somehow, you can go to the backup of the

day before and you're good to go.

Then there's the GrowBig plan -- $5.95/month or €6.45 per month. With this plan you can

have unlimited websites. What does it mean? Here we can have one website, so one domain.

Here it can have unlimited domains, so when you get the web hosting package of $5.95 per

month you can buy ten domain names and then create different websites. So that's the great

thing about the GrowBig plan. You can have more space, you can have more visitors and

if you scroll down a bit, you see, you can have on-demand backups. So you push the button

and you get a new backup. If you already have a website, you can have a free site transfer

to siteground. You can have staging so you can change things in your website and then

push one button and then it goes to the live website. If you want to know more about all

these options, you hover over here and you can see them.

So what I love the most about the GrowBig plan is that you can have unlimited websites,

and then there's the GoGeek plan -- 11.95 dollars or euros and you have more web space,

you can have more visitors and there are all those extra options. I personally use this

plan because I have a lot of websites and a lot of visitors. But when you're creating

your first website, you can choose between the Startup plan and the GrowBig plan. I will

go for the GrowBig plan. So I click over here on "Get Plan", and now we can register a new

domain name. If you have a domain name already, you can click over here, you can fill in yourdomainname.com

and then proceed. I want to register a new domain name and I can choose it over here.

So I can say ferdykorpwp (WordPress) and then there's extensions. You can say ".com", ".net"

but there are also countering specific extensions like .nl, like .pl, the .co.uk, .es. If you

want to go international, I prefer .com, not .net or those other ones, just .com. So be

creative, make sure it is available, if it's not available you click on proceed, you will

see it is not available. The domain costs $15.95 per month, €14.95 per month and I

click on proceed. That says "Congratulations! Domain ferdykorpwp is available for registration

with our hosting account." That is amazing!

So now, I want to fill in some details over here. I want to leave my best email address

over here which is ferdykorp@gmail.com; I need to create a password and I need to confirm

my password. Then we scroll down a bit and we go to client information. So first you

need to select your country, then your first name, and your last name. If you have a company,

you can fill in the details of your company. If you're from the United States, you need

to select your state or province, your city, your street address, your zip code and your

phone number.

Then I scroll down and I go to payment information. So I will fill in my details over here and

the great thing is, depending on the country where you live in, their local payment option.

So if you're from the Netherlands, you have Ideal, if you're from another country, you

can pay with your local payment provider which is what I love about Siteground. My billing

address is the same as given in the contact information. I scroll down. We've chosen the

GrowBig plan; you can choose your data center --- I choose the USA. If you want to focus

on people from Europe or the United Kingdom, you can choose something else. I'll choose

the USA. This is important. Here it says period: 12 months. REMEMBER, you get 70% discount

here at Siteground but it's only for the first payment period. So if you pay for 12 months,

you get a 70% discount for 12 months. If you choose 24 months you get 70% of 24 months.

If you choose 36, you get 70% discount on 36 months. The thing is when you say 36 months

you need to pay now. So you pay $214.20 and then you have three years of web hosting with

the GrowBig plan where you can have unlimited domain names. If you will go for 12 months,

then after 12 months, you will start to pay $19.95. I want to be upfront about that.

So if you're really sure you want to go for a long time with this domain, then I would

suggest you go for the 36 months. If you want to try it out, do a shorter period; then I

would say go with 12 months, and after a year, you start paying $19.95 per month depending

on the plan. It's not entirely true, because after your first period, you can decide to

go for three years with siteground web hosting and then you get 30% of discount. So then

you would pay around $14 per month with GrowBig, and $7 per month with the startup plan.

If I take a look at what a website means for a business, I know it is worth every penny.

So it's up to you, if you want to go for 12 months, 24 months or 36 months. I go with

12 months and then we go to the next step. We register a domain name and then I also

suggest you get domain privacy. Why is that? If you don't do this, people will see all

this information you have filled in on this page and they will call you, they will email

you like hey I can make your website, you can have a business loan if you want to; people

start spamming you. You don't want that. For $12 per year, you can get rid of that. You

don't need the Siteground scanner, so there's a total of $99.35 and you have a domain name

and website for a year. I think this is an amazing deal.

What you can do now? You confirm that you've read and agreed to the Siteground Terms of

Service and Privacy Policy and you can check this if you want to receive Siteground news

and special offers by email. When you get there through webhosting124.com, you don't

pay more, but you get the 70 percent discount and I get credit for it. So it's a win-win

situation and it helps me to make those tutorials. So thank you for that. I click on 'Pay Now'

and now ladies and gentlemen, you have a domain name and web hosting --- congratulations.

The next step is to install WordPress. Click on this button with the text 'Proceed to the

Customer Area'. And then we see this: Create or Migrate Your Website and then you see your

domain name. We click on this orange button to set up our site and here we can start a

new WordPress website.

So I click on the button below: Start a New Website. Then I choose WordPress even when

you want to start a WooCommerce website, still choose WordPress and now we need to set up

a login. Here you need to fill in your best email address and create a password. So I

will use ferdykorp@gmail.com and my password. Awesome!

Then I click on continue. I don't need the site scanner; I have that already. I click

on: Finish, and now our website is being created. It will take less than 2 minutes. It says

now that your domain has been created and WordPress is installed.

So what I want to do now, I want to go to a website. Here's my website and I click on:

Site Tools. I want to do one more thing before we go to our WordPress website. I want to

make it secure. So here we are at your domain and then there are a lot of options over here.

What we can do now, we can click on security and then we click on SSL manager. Our request

is being processed.

So here you can select your domain, if you have one it's probably already selected. Select

SSL and what it says, it's already encrypted. So I need to scroll down, here it is: Manage

SSL. My domain already has an encryption certificate. I click on Actions > Enforce HTTPS. I click

over here and I need to turn this on and now it's turned on; that's it.

So now; what I want to do? I want to go to WordPress > Install and manage. I scroll down.

Here we have our domain name, WordPress is installed and I want to take an action by

clicking here: Login to the Admin Panel, and we are already logged in.

What we need to do now, we need to skip the WordPress starter. So I scroll down and I