Toward a WooCommerce store

This page describes options for setting up a FOSS-ish online store using Wordpress and WooCommerce.

To get the presentation I wanted with the Storefront theme, I had to make a child theme and make modifications. In particular, I wanted to:

• Change the brand typogrpahy.
• Use a different shopping cart icon.
• Remove categories from the navigation.
• Use a copyright notice that was better suited for purpose.

This meant changing the style.css and functions.php files for the child theme using the Theme Editor.

I have the following plugins activated:

• WooCommerce (duh).
• Jetpack, because WooCommerce requires it. Yay .
• WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips. I'm not sure if this came with the default WooCommerce install.
• WooCommerce Shipping & Tax. Ditto.
• A WooCommerce checkout gateway. The checkout gateway I originally set up is being discontinued, so it will need to be changed. Yay . See below.
• WP Mail SMTP, so I can send email using my Gmail/G Suite account. This worked fine when I first set it up, but changes in Google authentication mean I have to jump through some more hoops to get things to work. Yay .
• WPForms Lite. I don't know how useful this will be.
• Really Simple SSL.
• UpdraftPlus - Backup/Restore, as a backup solution.
• Homepage Control. I'm not sure I actually use this. Also it “has not been tested with your current version of WordPress.” Yay .
• Classic Editor, because the new Gutenberg block editor kinda sucks.
• Restore Classic Widgets, ditto.

This is a fair amount of surface that could become problematic (e.g., becomes abandonware, develops security issues, etc.). Jetpack is freemium SAAS with a FOSS client. I haven't vetted the licensing of the other plugins for FOSS compliance.

The following are some candidates.

• WooCommerce
• WordPress
• By WooCommerce.
• 2.9% + $0.30 USD per transaction for U.S. issued card.
• 3.5 stars on WordPress out of ~20 reviews.
• No rating on WooCommerce.

• WooCommerce
• WordPress
• By WooCommerce.
• 2.9% + 30¢ per successful card charge (from here).
• 3 stars on WordPress out of 100+ reviews.
• 3.2 stars on WooCommerce out of ~75 reviews.

• WooCommerce
• WordPress
• By WooCommerce.
• 2.9% + 30¢ (from here).
• 1.5 stars on WordPress out of ~75 reviews.
• No rating on WooCommerce.