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eCommerce Websites Research
February 12, 2018
1. WP Crafter: How to Make an Online eCommerce Store Website
1. Choose Hosting:
- InMotion Hosting
- A2 Hosting
- SiteGround Hosting
2. Setup SSL: only use https
3. PHP 7.0 will be faster
4. Create email account: G Suite?
5. WordPress:
- Content Management System
- Pages/Posts/Other Types
- Header/Footer/Menus
- Content area / Sidebar
- Themes and Plugins
- WordPress Dashboard
- WordPress General Settings
- Permalink Settings: Choose Post Name
- User Accounts (Plugin: username change)
- Themes and Plugins
6. Theme: Astra
7. Plugin:
- Astra Starter Sites
- Really Simple SSL
- iTheme Security by iThemes (not activated)
- UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup by UpdraftPlus.com, David Anderson
- Yoast SEO by Team Yoast
- WP Mail SMTP by WPForms
8. Appearance- Astra Sites
- Choose DNK Template
- Install Elementor
- Install WooCommerce
- Import This Site
- Done View Site
9. Choosing a Color Palette
- https://coolors.co
- Google Chrome Extension: ColorZilla
- ColorZilla’s Hex Code doesn’t match with coolors.co (hahahaha…)
10. Choose a Font Pair
2. Darrel Wilson: WooCommerce Tutorial 2018
Short Version 1:44:33 Published on 2018.3.8 (Flatsome Theme & SiteGround Hosting)
Long Version 3:57:21 Published on 2018.2.23 (Flatsome Theme & SiteGround Hosting)
3. WooCommerce Product Vendors Plugin Tutorial: Multi Vendor Marketplace – Website Like Amazon
Plugin: Product Vendor – Allow multiple vendors to sell via your site and in return take a commission on sales to cover the costs of managing the site while you focus your efforts on building a community.
- WooCommerce $79 per site (https://woocommerce.com/products/product-vendors/)
- WooMill generic plugins $10 for one plugin or $15 per month or $59.99 per year Subscription over 190+ WooCommerce Extensions (http://www.woomill.com)
- Marketplace example: MontereyPremier (https://montereypremier.com) Marketplace, eCommerce Package
4. Payment Gateway
- Stripe – Using the Stripe Dashboard (https://youtu.be/AwklziE5HKo)
- WooCommerce – Setup Stripe (https://youtu.be/5rMDGdkmSGU) Free
- WooCommerce – PayPal Standard (https://youtu.be/FwHT5UDdkdY) Free
- PCI-DSS: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
5. eCommerce Websites I like
- Level Ground Trading (https://levelground.com/) built by Squarespace
- Ten Thousand Villages Shop (https://www.tenthousandvillages.com/) Magento eCommerce Platform + WordPress Blog
- The Thoussand Villages / Mosaic https://www.tenthousandvillages.com/mosaic/
- Shopkeeper Theme https://themeforest.net/item/shopkeeper-ecommerce-wp-theme-for-woocommerce/9553045?s_rank=2&irgwc=1&clickid=zRAQ6CR7m3L-0bBTBuSybyGUUkjwFsxAe1bSV40&iradid=275988&irpid=149855&iradtype=ONLINE_TRACKING_LINK&irmptype=mediapartner&mp_value1=&utm_campaign=af_impact_radius_149855&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=impact_radius ($69 use Visual Composer page builder)
- HUG網路超市 http://www.hug.com.tw/hug/index.aspx
- 台灣好農 https://www.wonderfulfood.com.tw/Client/index.aspx