Is possible to use WooCommerce with WordPress.com?
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Staff Edit: WordPress.com now does support WooCommerce and other plugins on some plans. You can find those here: https://wordpress.com/pricing
My team and I had the idea to move from WordPress.org to .com, and make use of WooCommerce to set up a better representation of our products (we’re in travel).
However, at first glance, it seems that WooCommerce is meant for .org, not WordPress.com. Is that correct?
If so, what would be a good way for us to carry out our original plan, to
a) Move from .org to .com to improve maintenance/uptime?
b) Display both product and blog posts on our home page?Many thanks
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Hi there,
You are correct that WooCommerce can only be used on self-hosted WordPress.org sites at present. We don’t currently support any eCommerce options on WordPress.com, so if you want a fully-functional eCommerce website we are not the right platform for you.
We are working on adding ecommerce options to WordPress.com, but it’s unlikely to be available within this year, so you’ll need to stay self-hosted for now.
However, if you are unhappy with your current hosting you can always switch to another hosting provider. We specifically recommend Pressable as a dependable host you can use. You can find a link to theme here:
https://get.wp.com/hosting/Please let me know if you have any more questions about this.
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First of all, thank you so much for your very clear and helpful answer, KokkieH.
Since we are a boutique tour operator and only offer a handful of tours at a time, we are going to hold off on getting a full-blown e-commerce solution.
What’s more important to us is:
- A stable platform where we don’t have to check every plugin after updates. Therefor, we are going to carry on with our plan to move to WordPress.org :)
- A frontpage that weaves together blog posts and products (pages), so that our users (business owners) can easily switch items “on top” ot the page. Can you recommend any themes like that?
Many thanks,
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A stable platform where we don’t have to check every plugin after updates. Therefor, we are going to carry on with our plan to move to WordPress.org :)
I should mention that on WordPress.com this isn’t an issue. Here we take care of all software updates for you, though you can’t install any plugins of your own. If you want stable, no WordPress.org hosting can compare to us, and that’s not a sales pitch :)
If you don’t need an integrated ecommerce solution a contact form-PayPal button combination might work for you. Here are instructions how to install a PayPal button on a WordPress.com site:
PayPalA frontpage that weaves together blog posts and products (pages), so that our users (business owners) can easily switch items “on top” ot the page. Can you recommend any themes like that?
On WordPress.com we have several themes with a Homepage Template, which allows you to display featured post and pages on the front page. We also have some single-page scrolling themes.
Some popular ones that immediately come to mind:
https://wordpress.com/themes/gateway
https://wordpress.com/themes/pique
https://wordpress.com/themes/edin/
https://wordpress.com/themes/sela/All these themes can be downloaded for self-hosted sites as well.
For more self-hosted themes you’ll need to look at the WordPress.org theme gallery:
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Reading what you said about themes again, I don’t think the themes I suggested would be ideal. Something like the Storefront theme that comes with WooCommerce would likely be better, but that can only be used on self-hosted WordPress.org sites.
Please let me know if you have any more questions.
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Oh, I mistyped, which is causing a confusion. I meant to say that we will be moving to WordPress.com. So, Storefront and Woocommerce are not an option for us.
However, I like the sound of those themes you suggested, but you had some afterthoughts, that they would not be ideal. Why not?
Mainly, what we’re looking for in a theme, is to be able to mix blog posts and pages on our front-page. And I don’t mean a category of blog posts and then a category of pages, but rather be able to list post-page-page-post one day and then page-post-page-page the next. And it needs to be so simple that I can the ordering off to our owner, as he writes the blog posts himself.
Hope I’m clearer now :)
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but you had some afterthoughts, that they would not be ideal. Why not?
Those themes are not optimised for product display, as it works on an ecommerce site, but if you can do this with regular posts and pages, then those themes can work for you.
Most themes with a showcase template allows you to show some page content on the front page. Some allow you to show more than one page on the front page (like Pique). And some also allow you to add featured posts.
To show a featured post usually involves adding a special tag to the post you want to appear, so to manage and order the posts comes down to adding and removing the tag from individual posts.
For a full list of themes that allow featured content in this way (though not all of them will use a homepage template), see here:
https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/featured-content-with-pages/
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Yes, as long as we can display both posts and pages on the front page, I think we can accomplish what we want.
At a quick glance, it seems that the Pique theme offers us the flexibility we want – being able to use various page templates for each section is brilliant!
All right, I’m gonna with this a bit – thanks for all your help!
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Pique can be a bit tricky to set up, so don’t hesitate if you need any help with that :)
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I also have question about ecommerce within wordpress.com. Is it possible integrate Buy Button from Shopify? https://help.shopify.com/manual/sell-online/buy-button
I know that within plugin https://help.shopify.com/manual/sell-online/buy-button/wordpress-for-shopify is the same problem like Woocommerce.
Thank for reply.
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Hi kokkieh,
Working with the Pique theme is fine, but I’ve had some trouble transferring from the old site to the new one. Here’s what I’ve done:
1) Updated from WordPress.com Free to Premium plan.
2) Exported from WordPress.org, imported to our new WordPress.com site
3) Moved the domain hosting from Bluehost to WordPressEverything seemed fine, then I started to notice that the Featured Image was not set in any of the posts. All the images seemed to be there.
Now that the domain has been completely moved over, I notice that some of the images haven’t moved over from the old site. They were probably being linked to the old address and once that wasn’t available anymore, I’m missing some of the images.
So problems are:
1) Setting Featured Image correctly on all posts (I’ve done it manually on the most recent ones, but if it could be handled automatically, that would be great)2) Exchanging old image links in my posts, to the correct ones.
3) If old images are missing, find a way to retrieve them (from the export file or some archive)
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Hi @fararsnid, hmm, we can try to fetch the images off the old host for you, but you would need to point the domain back there briefly. Would you be able to do that?
Once the images are here, I’ll see if we can help with making them featured.
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@fararsnid image fetching can take a while so I can’t make promises, but it’s often done within a business day. Would that work?
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Yes, that sounds good. Let’s go ahead with that.
I’ve already switched back to Bluehost nameservers at my domain registrar, that should be enough, right?
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@fararsnid, yes. We’ll get that started here and will let you know when it’s done. Cheers!
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Hi @fararsnid, it looks like your nameservers were switched back at some point, and we were not able to download all of the images from Bluehost. If you are willing to switch the nameservers back (and leave them that way until we can finish downloading) let us know.
Otherwise I can send a list of posts that have broken images right now so you can fix them manually.
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