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  • Using WordPress for e-commerce: Pros and Cons

    Using WordPress for e-commerce: Pros and Cons

    E-commerce has opened plenty of new opportunities for thousands of entrepreneurs today. Over the last few years, the e-commerce market has witnessed significant growth as more and more consumers prefer online shopping.

    As per Statista, over 1.8 billion consumers around the world bought things online in 2018. To make the most of e-commerce growth, most small businesses are starting their online store to reach more customers. And why not, e-commerce platforms like WordPress, Magento etc. have made it very easier and simpler.

    More than one-third of the websites today are build on WordPress. For e-commerce, the WordPress provides an innovative plugin called WooCommerce. This plugin is also open source like WordPress, and can be used for free.

    However, one question that has always risen among the e-commerce businesses—is WordPress good for e-commerce? Is it better than other e-commerce platforms?

    To clear the doubts and answer these questions, we have listed both the pros and cons of using WordPress for e-commerce. Let’s begin with the pros.

    Advantages of using WordPress for e-commerce

    1. Free and easy to use

    Currently, WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) because of its simple and quick installation process. Its WooCommerce plugin allows conversion of a website into an e-commerce store without any technical expertise.

    If users need any help during installation, the platform provides an installation wizard for it. Furthermore, it is available for free.

    2. Customization

    WooCommerce plugin allows users to customize the storefront as per their requirement, without putting much time and effort into it. Even the themes can also be personalized to give the storefront a desired look and feel.

    The product attributes can be edited and changed, and other plugins can also be used to integrate more functionalities.

    3. Easier management of products and inventory

    The webstore created using WooCommerce can be used to sell both digital and physical products or services. Users can add new products regularly, categorize these products, and manage things easily.

    For smoother inventory management, the platform comes with a user-friendly user interface (UI). This UI can be used to keep a track of stocks and management of regular inventory.

    4. Support for multiple currencies and payment gateways

    WooCommerce provides geolocation support to allow retailers accept multiple currencies. The support for multiple payment gateways and shipping options helps in attracting customers from various locations and countries. The customers can pay in their suitable currency and tax rate. This can accelerate the sales for online retailers.

    5. Web analytics

    Whether it is running a blog or an e-commerce store, the analytics is critical to analyze the performance of website, which products are being visited and sold, what’s driving traffic, and what’s not right.

    For that, the WooCommerce facilitates use of an extension called WooCommerce Google Analytics. This extension can be used to not only track the basic user activity, but also the events, sessions, and important data like product views and actions on shopping cart.

    6. SEO-friendly

    WordPress is good for search engine optimization (SEO) as it provides extensions and plugins like Yoast SEO. This helps you to improve your rankings on Google and other search engines by providing relevant suggestions. This way, you can improve the SEO on your own.

    Disadvantages of using WordPress for e-commerce

    1. Limited support for e-commerce issues

    Since users have to install WooCommerce to start the e-commerce store, the support for plugin is not as good as for the platform itself. If they get stuck or the things go wrong with the storefront, there will be a need to approach third-parties or experienced WordPress developers to get things fixed.

    2. Theme should be compatible with WooCommerce plugin

    There are hundreds of free and premium themes available on WordPress repository that can be easily downloaded and installed on the site in no time. However, if the WooCommerce is used to design the store, then the used theme should support the plugin.

    Hence, the website owners need to hunt for the right e-commerce theme for WordPress that is reliable and trustworthy. Otherwise, the site might crash and cause errors.

    3. Security issues

    When it comes to security and data privacy, usershave to rethink and redefine their strategy to ensure that everything remains safe. Because of WordPress’s popularity, the cybercriminals are targeting the platform increasingly.

    They keep on finding the flaws in WordPress to hack the websites on this platform. That is the reason WordPress releases updates on a regular basis. The WordPress plugins also get updates to avoid such issues.

    The thing here is that you will need to check regularly if any updates are available for WordPress, plugins, as well as themes. If the things are not updated, the site remains somehow vulnerable.

    4. Limited functionalities for big e-commerce stores

    While WordPress allows customization of several features and things, but still there is a room for a lot of things to be improved. Big e-commerce stores sometimes need advanced or specific features which can’t be added. It’s because the WordPress API puts some limitations even for the developers.

    5. Untrustworthy themes and plugins

    Online retailers can’t afford to risk the data and security of their stores. To ensure that they are using the secure and high-quality themes, they have to use the themes and plugins from the reliable and well-known sources only.

    While there are numerous themes and plugins available for free, not all of them are trustworthy. The free and cheap themes and plugins don’t really provide support if the issues arise. These products have to be used very carefully.

    Wrapping up:

    If you are looking to use WordPress for your e-commerce business, then it’s essential that you consider both the pros and cons of doing it. If you think you can handle the limitations effectively, then WordPress is good for you. But if you can’t manage the security, plugins, and themes on your own, then it’s better to think again.

    Let us know if you have any query.

  • Parallax Scrolling in an Easy Way

    Parallax Scrolling in an Easy Way

    If you want to add a parallax scrolling effect to your WordPress background in an easy way, search no more. I’m going to show you how to do that without messing around with any code whatsoever. You’ll have to just copy and paste in order to implement it. That’s about it. Let me point out one aspect of the post in the first place. Even if you don’t need to add this functionality to your site now, I strongly recommend bookmarking it because chances are that you’ll need to do it (use the effect) down the road because the technique is gaining popularity. One day you may have a customer who says, “Dude, I want that parallax thing in my site’s background.  And I need it asap. (more…)

  • Why Your Website Must Only Have One Superpower

    Why Your Website Must Only Have One Superpower

    This is a guest post by Swati Gole.

    Most web designers make the mistake of overdoing it. You set out to create a superhero website and then you burden it with heavy capes and tons of different superpowers. The essence of creating a stunning killer website lies in its simplicity. Overdoing the design and functionality might work against it. If one superpower suffices, don’t turn it into Batman, Spiderman, Wolverine, and Deadpool all in one. (more…)

  • The Only WordPress Checklist You Will Ever Need!

    The Only WordPress Checklist You Will Ever Need!

    This is a guest post by Nirav Dave.

    I am sure you’ll agree when I say that WordPress is the best CMS around today. It is free, easy to use, fully customizable, and gives excellent results at the end.Which is probably why WordPress powers more than 20% of all the world’s websites on the internet today! (more…)

  • How to Run a WordPress Blog from Your iPhone (early bird)

    How to Run a WordPress Blog from Your iPhone (early bird)

    Would you like to get to know how to run your WordPress blog right from your iPhone? If that’s the case, I got pretty good news for you. Thing is, I’m currently working on a brand new video course entitled How to Run a WordPress Blog from Your iPhone. The course will address pretty much everything you need to know to be able to use the WordPress iPhone app to its fullest. If that’s something you’re interested in, here’s how you can get an early bird 50% off promo code. (more…)

  • How to Add a Neat Table in WordPress

    How to Add a Neat Table in WordPress

    Do you sometimes need to use a table in WordPress but it’s too tedious, daunting and just useless to create one with plain HTML? You know that messing with HTML is really time consuming and your own custom table won’t look that good anyway? This post offers you a super easy step-by-step tutorial and a video that explain how to create a neat table in WordPress the hassle-free way. (more…)

  • WordPress App for iPhone

    WordPress App for iPhone

     

    This article will walk you through the process of installing and using the WordPress app for iPhone 5s or any other version. You’ll be able to handle both WordPress.com and stand-alone WordPress blogs. With that in mind, you can use your iPhone to update or create brand new blog posts any time you feel like doing so. That means you will be able to make use of every free minute you get now and then. For example, waiting for clients or your date 🙂 The benefit is pretty obvious because you’ll never waste a single minute. You’ll be able to both feel and actually be productive when it comes to blogging on the go. (more…)

  • How to Restore WordPress with the Help of BackWPup

    How to Restore WordPress with the Help of BackWPup

     

    In the previous post entitled WordPress Backup Made Easy, you learned how to make WordPress backups. As you remember, you can use a few methods, but using a WordPress plugin seems to be the most simple one. You got to know (if not, better check it now) how to do the trick with BackWPup. So, you have your backup. Now you probably want to see how your backups can mean the world to you. Say, something really sucky happened and you lost both your files on the server (images, etc) and the database got ruined. But remember you made backups on a regular basis? So, you can fix the issue before you know it. Let’s see how. (more…)

  • WordPress Backup Made Easy

    WordPress Backup Made Easy

    WordPress backup is of topmost importance even if you have no idea about it. Here’s why. You can lose all you’ve done with your blog any minute now. Thing is, you may be so gung-ho about the whole blogging thing that you’re under the impression that everything that you added to your WordPress is cut in stone and will stay intact for good whatever happens. Problem is,

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  • How to Remove Date in WordPress

    How to Remove Date in WordPress

     

    Got a hunch that the date of your post can turn away people from your totally amazing content that you created back in the day? You’re goddamn right! That’s why you need to remove date both from your WordPress posts and pages. This post tackles two ways of removing date from your WordPress content. One is for those folks who like to wrap their heads around all sorts of coding stuff. The other is for those of you who’d rather use a WordPress plugin that just does the trick. Fasten your belts and let’s get the party started! (more…)

  • How to Make a Magazine Online in No Time

    magazine online

    Really obsessed with the idea to create an online magazine, but you’re not exactly sure how to go about doing that? This post is just about that. You’ll learn what features you definitely need for your online magazine design so that it looks and works as your readers expect. What’s more, I’ll review a sample WordPress design that we’ll have all the features that you’ll find mentioned in the post. As a matter of fact, there are two ways to go about it. You can either just use a specific online magazine platform that allows you to get your site off the ground really fast or actually use WordPress. Both options have both cons and pros… (more…)

  • How to Select a Hosting Company

    How to Select a Hosting Company

    Hosting company is a vital aspect for your website. Once the day has come and you decided to do it like the big guys, you need to choose a hosting company that allows you to focus on creating high-quality content but not on keeping an eye on how your hosting company does its job. You want your hosting company to be reliable and as stable as possible. Sure thing, I’d like you to read the full post I’ve put together for you, but if you want to run a WordPress site and you need a quick solution, which is nonetheless reliable as well, you can just go for BlueHost.com because that’s the hosting company that WordPress recommends on their site. (more…)

  • Best WordPress Plugins and a Bit of History

    Wordpress Plugins

    This is a guest post by Teyona Dame.
    While there are numerous technology companies that generate millions of dollars by licensing proprietary software, there are only a handful of organizations that focus on developing free open source software. Among others, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds pioneered the concept of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) development. They believed in the freedom of choosing between proprietary software packages and free software. Another such modern open source pioneer is Matt Mullenweg, who is the founder of the openhearted WordPress Foundation. (more…)

  • How to Create Simplistic WordPress Themes

    Wordpress logo

    If you’re new to WordPress (WordPress development virgin as some say) and you consider the job of a WordPress developer, you may have the question about how exactly WordPress themes work and how they are structured. In other words, you just want to get a general idea about the whole shebang. Does that sound like you? Keep on reading in that case. And one more thing actually. This post is not about how to build simplistic WordPress themes from top to bottom. The aim of the post is just to give you a general idea so that you know what you’re doing and learn more later.
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  • SEO WordPress tips inspired by a video

    WordPress SEO

    The other day I decided to check back with WordPress TV and see what cool stuff they’ve got there. And I did that quite in the nick of time because there was a really useful video (SEO WordPress one) on the homepage of WordPress TV. The video is called “Ira Pasternack, Milan Cole, & Sara Tetreault: SEO Discussion”. I really liked the video and ran the risk of re-publishing on my blog because it is so congenial to the mission that WebDesy.com is trying to complete, which is to education in terms of using WordPress and SEO. Just like the guys in the video say, if you decided to run your site on WordPress you’ve alredy made a very good decision for your site’s SEO. 🙂 (more…)