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  davidlesleyshippglcom · Member · Jan 25, 2023 at 7:58 pm

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  Which hosting plan would be good for blogging; including the ability to drop ship?

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  staff-95percentghost · Staff · Jan 26, 2023 at 12:26 pm

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  Hi there! What sort of drop-shipping are you thinking of; would this be dropshipping from AliExpress, or were you thinking of print-on-demand services for custom products?

  In general, dropshipping is achieved by connecting to other services, which is usually best done by plugins. This means that you would want the Business plan on WordPress.com, so that you can set up ecommerce/dropshipping plugins, in addition to your blog.

  For example, if you’re wanting to dropship via Aliexpress, you would want the Business plan, the WooCommerce plugin, and a dedicate dropshipping extension from the WooCommerce extension marketplace. Here are a few relevant links for that:

  • https://en.support.wordpress.com/plan-features/business-plan/
  • https://en.support.wordpress.com/introduction-to-woocommerce/
  • One of these:
    • https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-dropshipping/?aff=80393
    • https://woocommerce.com/products/aliexpress-dropshipping-for-woocommerce/?aff=80393

  If you wanted to get started on the blog part first, you can of course do that, and upgrade to the Business plan later to work on the dropshipping part! We have a guide here that may help you get started:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/five-step-blog-setup/

  Please do feel free to share more about your aims with the blog and dropshipping store, so that we can point you in the right direction!