Ready to launch your online print shop? This tutorial covers the essential final steps to ensure your wp2print WordPress site is professionally configured for a successful launch. Before you go live, it is crucial to verify your backend settings to guarantee a seamless customer experience and secure file handling. We begin by walking you through the Amazon S3 integration. Offloading large print-ready files to Amazon S3 is vital for maintaining site speed and reliability. Next, we dive into WooCommerce configuration for payments, shipping, and taxes. Finally, we cover the technical transition including DNS records and updating site URLs.
Video Transcript
So you've finished setting up your site.
From products to appearance and user groups to email price quotes, you've done it all and it's now time to go live.
But before doing so, we suggest you watch this short video making sure that you've completed the final steps correctly and that you're all set to go.
We're going to first confirm that an Amazon S3 connection has been set up on your site, followed by making sure the payment gateway, shipping options, and tax rates are set to your needs, and finally, going through configuring a custom domain and successfully pointing it to our host server.
To begin, let's make sure an Amazon S3 connection has been set up on your site.
If you haven't created an Amazon S3 bucket yet, go ahead and do so.
We have a help page dedicated to the whole process on our documentation site under Getting Started and AWS Configuration.
Head over to your administration panel and hover over Settings then wp2print.
At the top, make sure you're in the File Uploads tab.
Set the file upload target to Amazon S3.
Next, fill in the S3 access key and secret key text boxes with your own access and secret keys that you received when creating your bucket.
Then, type in your bucket name, set your region, your path (which should preferably be on date and username).
Leave the file access on private, and finally, configure the max file upload size.
We'll set it at 500.
Make sure to save the settings and your Amazon S3 bucket should be correctly set up.
Next, let's quickly go over the payment, shipping, and tax settings.
To do so, on the administration panel, head over to WooCommerce then Settings.
On the top, browse through these different tabs and make sure all the settings are set to your liking and needs.
On the Payments tab, you're able to go through the different payment methods.
PayPal and Stripe are available as options by default.
But if you need to make use of a payment gateway which does not yet have an option, you should contact the company in question to receive that company's WordPress plugin.
Similarly for shipping, unless you'd like to make use of simple flat rates, you'll need to install the UPS and FedEx plugins in order to make use of those services.
Much more information can be found on the WooCommerce docs on shipping as well as the FedEx and UPS plugin pages, which will all be linked below this video.
Lastly, let's briefly go through setting up your custom domain and pointing it to the wp2print server.
This whole process is explained in detail on the wp2print documentation site under making your wp2print site live.
Once you've set your DNS record to point to our IP address, send us an email with the final domain name you're going to be using and we will install an SSL certificate and go through the final steps of going live for you, including setting up an SSL certificate.
More information can be found on the documentation site which will be linked below.
We now need to replace your temporary domain name you were using for testing with your permanent domain name.
To do so, head over to Settings then General on the administration site.
Replace the WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) with your own permanent domain name.
Click Save Changes and you're done.
You have now completed your last steps and are ready to go live.
Please keep in mind that there are plenty of videos on the documentation site that go more in-depth on certain aspects of the system.
It will all be linked below.
If you need any assistance in setting something up, that's the place to look for the solution.