ecommerce:toward_a_woocommerce_store
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Toward a WooCommerce store
This page describes options for setting up a FOSS-ish online store using Wordpress and WooCommerce.
Theme
To get the presentation I wanted with the Storefront theme, I had to make a child theme from it and make some changes. 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 Storefront child theme style.css and Storefront child theme functions.php files using the Theme Editor.
Plugins
I have the following plug-ins activated:
- WooCommerce (duh)
- Jetpack, because WooCommerce requires it. Yay.
- A WooCommerce payment gateway. The WooCommerce PayPal Checkout Gateway I originally set up is being discontinued, so it will need to be changed. Yay.
- WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips. I'm not sure if this came with the default WooCommerce install.
- WooCommerce Shipping & Tax. Ditto.
- 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.
- 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 lot of surface that could become problematic (e.g., becomes abandonware, develops security issues, etc.).
ecommerce/toward_a_woocommerce_store.1634774958.txt.gz · Last modified: 2021/10/21 00:09 by mithat