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Using WordPress as an eCommerce engine

July 15, 2013 by curvs Leave a Comment

WordPress, it’s blogging software, right?

Well, hold on, a number of years back WordPress became more accepted as a CMS, a Content Management System.

In the past couple of years, WordPress is also becoming an eCommerce engine.  A site that you can use to sell goods and services.

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One of my recent WordPress eCommerce projects

 

It’s true.  Truth is, I am a long time eCommerce person.  I have been selling goods over the Internet for more than 15 years.  I have been making money on the net for over 20 years, but in the first 5 or 6 years, I was not actually selling goods.  I have used many different methods to sell online:]

  • Very elementary shopping cart systems offered by Paypal, 2Checkout and other payment processors.
  • OSCommerce software
  • Magento software
  • OpenCart eCommerce software
  • other software solutions

When I first started hearing about using WordPress for doing eCommerce, the thought intrigued me.  My first thought was that it sounded great, because I know WordPress inside out, and being able to use it as my eCommerce platform would give me a big advantage in setting up a shopping cart because of my knowledge of WordPress.  I tried out some of the early eCommerce plugins for WordPress, though, and was totally unimpressed.

Since the beginning of 2013, though, I have done two different projects using WordPress handling the eCommerce functions of the sites that I did, and in both cases (using different plugins for WP each time), I have been quite impressed.  In fact, I have found that using the right plugins, WordPress can do a few things that I did not even think possible!  I am even having thoughts of migrating some of my more sophisticated eCommerce sites over to WordPress.  The things that I have found are that good.

Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing more about which software I have been testing out with WordPress, and my impressions so far in my testing.  I think you might be surprised at some of the results!

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