Set up for my business website
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I’m a personal trainer and currently have a basic website on GoDaddy which I designed and set up myself. I’m looking to upgrade my web presence, expand my services, offer products for sale online and port retail software such as mindbody where people can sign up and pay for group classes online. Do I leave my domain on Godaddy or should I host it here? I need a custom layout and will most likely use the business level service on wordpress. How difficult is it to port the e-commerce piece to the back and the retail piece to the front and best optimize for seo? How long should all this take for an ‘intermediate’ level user who is not a programmer? Thanks?
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Hi there,
For the site you’re describing you need the self-hosted version of WordPress, called WordPress.org. Something like the WooCommerce plugin should be able to meet all your needs for selling products, subscriptions and services online. WordPress.org themes are also fully customizable, though that will require some coding knowledge or you can hire a web designer to help you.
So you’ll need to stay with GoDaddy, or move to another host that supports the WordPress.org software. But it’s not the same as WordPress.com, so we’ll not be able to help you here.
If your GoDaddy site is already using WordPress, installing WooCommerce is as simple as clicking on Plugins ->Add New in the dashboard, searching for WooCommerce, and clicking Install. Depending on your internet connection it can literally take less than a minute.
As for setting up and using WooCommerce, they have excellent tutorials on their site, and they also offer support:
For detailed help with a WordPress.org site, and for converting your GoDaddy site to WordPress if you’re not using it already, you can ask in the WordPress.org forums, here:
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