WordPress
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Platforms & Apps
14 New WordPress Business Themes for 2016
November 7, 2016 • Sig Ueland
There is a constant stream of new WordPress themes to build seemingly any type of business website or ecommerce store. Use a theme to launch a business website quickly, without ...
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Business
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Merchant Voice
From Magento to WooCommerce, 1 year on
July 27, 2016 • Richard Stubbings
Just over a year ago, I moved my website from Magento to WooCommerce. I described my process of evaluating and, ultimately, selecting WooCommerce in a 5-part series here on Practical ...
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SEO
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Merchant Voice
WooCommerce and SEO
April 28, 2015 • Richard Stubbings
Every ecommerce site presumably needs to be found by potential customers. Here in the U.K., and indeed in Europe, Google remains the single search engine giant. In the U.S., Bing ...
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Business
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Merchant Voice
From Magento to WooCommerce, part 5
March 27, 2015 • Richard Stubbings
This is the fifth and final installment in a series of posts that describes my disenchantment with Magento and my consideration of WooCommerce as a new platform for my ecommerce ...
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Business
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Merchant Voice
From Magento to WooCommerce, part 4
March 15, 2015 • Richard Stubbings
This is the fourth installment in my series of describing the process of migrating from Magento to WooCommerce. In “part 1,” I discussed my frustrations with Magento and the appeal ...
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Business
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Merchant Voice
From Magento to WooCommerce, part 3
March 5, 2015 • Richard Stubbings
This is the third installment of a series in which I describe my decision to leave the Magento platform, and test WooCommerce. In “part 1,” I explained my disillusionment with ...
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Business
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Merchant Voice
From Magento to WooCommerce, part 2
February 18, 2015 • Richard Stubbings
In “part 1” of this series, I addressed my desire to simplify our company’s ecommerce platform, to move away from Magento. I had decided to test WooCommerce, the WordPress plugin that is ...
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Business
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Merchant Voice
From Magento to WooCommerce, part 1
January 30, 2015 • Richard Stubbings
Every three years I conduct a major review of my ecommerce sites. This is typically more than my annual review; everything is under consideration. In previous major reviews I have ...
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User Experience
5 Beautiful WooCommerce Sites
May 23, 2014 • Joe Robison
Learning by example is one of the best ways to progress in your craft. In this article, I present five inspiring ecommerce shops built with WooCommerce. Each shop has unique ...
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Platforms & Apps
7 Things that Make WooCommerce Compelling
April 24, 2014 • Armando Roggio
WooCommerce is, arguably, the most popular and important WordPress ecommerce plugin. Its ease of use, features, and flexibility make it a leading ecommerce platform, capable of rivaling even the best ...
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Platforms & Apps
3 Things to Know About WooCommerce
April 23, 2014 • Armando Roggio
WooCommerce is a popular WordPress plugin, designed to transform WordPress into a capable ecommerce platform. The plugin has many superb features and capabilities, but there are also at least three ...
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Platforms & Apps
WooCommerce Leads Ecommerce Platform Pack in April 2014
April 18, 2014 • Armando Roggio
WooCommerce, the popular WordPress ecommerce plugin, had nearly 260,000 active sites indexed with BuiltWith, a web technology profiling tool, as of April 14, 2014, about 37,000 more sites than its ...
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Design & Dev Tools
21 Free Tools to Open a WordPress Shop
May 27, 2013 • Sig Ueland
WordPress is a free content management system with an abundance of free plugins and themes to launch and manage an ecommerce shop. If you’re looking for an inexpensive and flexible solution to test the ecommerce waters, WordPress might be right for you. Here is a list of free tools to...