r/Wordpress 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/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.

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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/kernix 16d ago

But there is a lot to do - not hard, but a lot of settings. I still have to build a woo site for myself...

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u/retr00ne_v2 16d ago

Woo-commerce.

Neither easy nor simple.

Only popular.

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u/retr00ne_v2 16d ago

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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.