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- [Instructor] WooCommerce is a fully-featured ecommerce solution, meaning that it has an order management system, it can process payments and refunds, it lists multiple products and categories and tags with filters, and maybe most importantly, it has a cart. It lets you check out with multiple products at the same time. This is great for most sellers, but for some sellers that sell just one e-book, they don't need the cart, and in fact, an extra step is confusing. For those users, I recommend skipping the cart entirely and taking the user to the checkout page directly. In most cases, it should increase conversions. If you asked me how to to this two years ago, I would have provided you with a snippet of custom code that uses the WooCommerce Add to Cart Redirect Filter to actually redirect to the homepage. This certainly works, but it's a bit putsy because you need to write code for the product page and for the store page. It's been requested so often that there's now a plugin that…

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