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WooCommerce Getting Started
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I’m providing free web/WordPress help to an organization that purchased the Virtue Pro theme when I helped them convert their site to WordPress. (My first experience with a Pro theme – big thumbs up for your support.) We’re slowly working to create a new home page using the block editor, both because of an SEO consultant’s feedback on what content to have there and to get familiar with the new editor, so we can use it going forward.
Recently they’ve asked about what it would take to enable e-commerce on the site. I’m totally new to the e-commerce side of things. WooCommerce seems the obvious choice to explore (unless we run into some “deal-breaker”, which I do not expect), particularly as Kadence has multiple plugins for WooCommerce. I’m quite comfortable learning yet another computer/web based tool and helping others get up to speed with it as well.
I’m fairly certain they’ll want to go from a single-theme license to an “all-in” ‘Kadence Membership’, particularly for Woo Extras and some of the other WooCommerce-targeted plugins. Going that route, we’ll probably figure out how to incorporate Kadence AMP as well, to improve performance for people using phones to view the site.
So I have some “newbie” questions to get started.
(1) Theme – I’m planning to put the commerce in a secondary installation of WordPress at mainsite.org/store or something like that. The WooCommerce info recommends using the Storefront theme. It seems to me we’d be better off sticking with Virtue Pro, since that’s what we’re familiar with. Does the Storefront theme (or any of your other themes) have anything spectacular that might make me change my mind?
(2) Plugins –
(a) Automattic has a “WooCommerce Blocks” plugin. Is this largely redundant to what your plugins do, an expected companion plugin, or does it provides features different from your plugins?
(b) “WooCommerce Services” looks interesting. It looks like it would be a good thing to add. Thoughts?
(c) I saw your blog post *Login to see link and will look into those. Beyond that, any “basics” plugins I haven’t found out about yet?
Thanks for your help, once again.
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