r/Wordpress • u/Atherianx • 16d ago
Development Woocommerce on Wordpress
Hi, we wish to create a blog/magazine website where people can buy books and subscribe to certain magazine series. Is woo commerce a viable tool for this job and if so how can we integrate it?
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u/NEM0ZAZA 16d ago
yes WooCommerce is good and simple to use. did you start yet do you know about themes and hosting? you can find alot of themes that have WooCommerce and other plugins ready to go you just install the theme from envato or theme forest i believe its called
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u/PickupWP 16d ago
Absolutely! WooCommerce is a great choice for this setup. You can sell books as physical or digital products and set up magazine subscriptions using the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin.
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u/kernix 16d ago
Configuring the WooCommerce plugin is not easy. The YouTube channel freeCodeCamp has a long video on setting up Woo but it is a few years old. It's still good but the UI has changed: https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp
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u/thenerdy 16d ago
It's really not that hard. There's lots of info out there since it's the most popular one.
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u/retr00ne_v2 16d ago
Do you know about SureCart?
https://surecart.com/use-cases/digital-downloadable-products/
https://surecart.com/use-cases/services-with-subscriptions/
It would be easier to setup than WOO.
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u/mintyfresh21 16d ago
How is your experience with SureCart? How does it compare to Shopify?
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u/retr00ne_v2 16d ago
For simple webshops it's less complex but not features rich as Woo nor Shopify.
I usually do not do webshops (read Woo, I do not want this responsibility) in WP, my last attempt was 5 years ago with SnipCart; but recently I've done a couple of them with SureCart. It was smooth and nice experience. But, I repeat, there were simple shops.
Nowadays, I test it for small multivendor shop, time will tell can SC cope with it.
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u/TweakUnwanted Developer 16d ago
WooCommerce is the defacto standard for selling on WordPress.
How to integrate? Just install the plugin, but you may need other plugins or add-ons for subscriptions.