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Online Store On WordPress And WooCommerce: How It Works

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Aliana Sharma
Online Store On WordPress And WooCommerce: How It Works

Online Store On WordPress And WooCommerce

Looking for an online store solution? A responsible task! New services for online trading regularly appear on the web development market. But in this article, we will talk about the eternal - WordPress online store in conjunction with WooCommerce.


WordPress for online store


A trading site is different from a regular web page. It should have a catalog with product cards, order and payment forms, client and administrator accounts. It takes a long time to develop such a project from scratch.


The WooCommerce plugin is a WordPress add-on that helps you quickly create an online store. Contains all the elements necessary for the store: product cards, order forms, cabinets, and others. 


The plugin appeared in 2014, and by 2019 it had been downloaded over 5 million times from the WordPress directory. What are the reasons for such popularity, besides the fact that it is free? Look for readymade templates such as woocommerce stock manager and many more.


WooCommerce Plugin Benefits:


  • Flexible and powerful - after installation, it turns the site into an online store.
  • Compatible with a variety of design themes - you can choose a design to your taste.
  • Compatible with many other plugins - you don't have to overpay for development to upgrade your site. There are free and paid add-ons for security, SEO, backups, and more.
  • Also, don't forget about the pluses of all WordPress sites - easy management and good SEO. After launching the project, you can easily create new categories, add products, photos, and descriptions, and optimize the text for search engines.


Online stores with WooCommerce


  • Porter & York
  • Cupcake Studio
  • Dynamic
  • Buddhi Baby EcoKitty
  • Picky Bars
  • Apogee CE
  • Veer Mike's Organic Delivery
  • Nordic Ware Australia
  • Chuckling Goat
  • Minipop


How big can a website run on WooCommerce?


Hosting.

 

  • Weak hosting will eat up the speed of the lightest and most optimized site. Basic hosting requirements:
  • PHP version 7.3 and higher,
  • MySQL version 5.6 and higher or MariaDB version 10.1 and higher,
  • HTTPS protocol.


Functionality. 


  • The site loading speed is influenced by the number of categories, products, and filters. The more there are, the slower the store works. 
  • WordPress exports from 10,000 products and successfully pulls out the integration with 1C. But don't forget that a lot depends on the hosting.


Traffic. 


Track website traffic. If you run ads for a website, do SEO, and traffic is growing, choose a more powerful hosting. If the performance is not enough, the site will start to work slowly, or even crash altogether.


How to Create an Online Store with WordPress and WooCommerce?


Have you decided that WordPress with WooCommerce is right for you?


To create an online store using the WooCommerce plugin, you will need:


  • Prepare a topic.
  • Install a theme for hosting.
  • Set up a product card.
  • Upload products to the online store.
  • Set up shipping and payment sections.


First, you need to decide whether you will use a ready-made theme or want to make an individual design for the site. 


If you do not have the skills of a designer, a layout specialist and you do not know how to create themes on WordPress, then you can:


  • Learn to.
  • Hire a specialist or a team, they will do everything for you.
  • Buy a ready-made theme that best suits your store.


A quality design and custom theme will suit your needs, but if your budget is tight, it's better to buy a good theme than hire a bad specialist. Some ready-made eCommerce WordPress themes are just as good as the work of good designers.


If you decide to download a free or broken theme, check the reliability of the source. Attackers often add "left" links to them and leave security holes. Then viruses hack sites on such topics, search engines lower their ratings, and block hosting. It's better not to risk it and download free themes and plugins from the official WordPress directory.


Broken themes are one of the reasons for sites to be infected with malicious code


Not all themes are created equal and may require specialized skills to install, customize, and fix. So do not rush to kill developers if the paid theme is not installed. To configure it, you have to delve a little into the jungle of WordPress or contact the experts.


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