Online store on Wordpress?

Question

Online shopping

I am developing an online store on the Wordpress engine. Used the WP e-Commerce plugin, foolishly not paying attention to the rating.
I just simply killed three evenings in vain until I realized that this fucking plug-in has a serious error in working with CNC.
It simply cannot correctly issue links in the form site.com/product-category/product-name. Only direct links by ID.
And the developers, apparently, do not even try to fix it (freaks, at least they warned on the site. The Internet is full of open forums for this error - not a single sane solution).
Now I’m looking in the direction of Woocommerce — it’s both prettier, and the admin area is nicer, and the rating is 4.5/5 (versus 3/5 for that collection of bugs).
Who can worked \works with such sheaf? Is it good?
Or can you recommend a better plugin?
I can’t use a specialized engine - there is simply no skill. But WordPress is up and down.

Answer 1

And I want to add this. TS talked about three wasted evenings and at least a fourth wasted on Woo. Four nights! It seems to me that a person who has studied WP far and wide in such a time could understand the basic principles of operation of any modern store management system. The author underestimated himself a bit, I think.
One more moment. Before I did my first MI myself, I read a lot of opinions that a store on WP is at least equal to long sex with a store plugin. And I thought, well, nonsense, the review is old, the world has become a better place. And then I had a “difficult” client.
At first, he wanted “a simple Schaub - a courier and in the office and that’s it” - for this, WP-Shop was enough for me (although objectively the plugin is terrible, I had to rewrite something there; and I had to make sure that none of the additional plugins it required in which case it has not been updated). But at the project delivery stage, the client began to come up with various cool functionality extensions, adjusting the WP-Shop plugin for which I fucked very, very hard and many times. And this was my first time, it seemed that, damn it, I had already spent so much effort digging into it all, you can’t just drop everything and choose another platform, it’s a pity for the time spent, you have to cut.
As a result, I still spit on WP, the plugin and all this and chose Prestashop, in which one evening I just dug around, got used to it, and in the second evening I did EVERYTHING that was related to the functionality. There are already suppliers, and a warehouse, and imports, and statistics, and taxes, and payment methods (Robokassa exists, yes), and a customer base, and advertising, and discounts, etc.
In short, I am now also one of those people who say:
- Choose something more special for an online store. With WP you will have a long headache for nothing.

Answer 2

An intermediate result after a day of torment:
Woocommerce pleasantly surprised me with its functionality and extensibility.
The template is much more difficult to edit than in wp e-commerce, but WOO has a lot more visual components. Looking at them, I got a suspicion that rozetka.ua and itbox.ua are made on the same engine - absolutely similar shopping cart \ product page \ a bunch of other pages).
Of the unpleasant moments - permalinks work almost correctly. I was able to convince the engine to use latin slugs only after I completely edited the plugin's localization file, then implemented it into a clean plugin and did a reinstall.
Without all these manipulations, the links looked something like this: www.sitename.com/catalog/category/product . Nowwww.sitename.com/catalog/cat/product .
Also, during the localization, I had to translate half of the plugin's admin panel.
In general, the localization quest turned out to be long and interesting =) The
second interesting quest was the selection of a product database import plugin (stopped at Csv import for Woocommerce), obtained from an old buggy version of joomla+virtuemart. After several hours of torment, I still managed to bring csv and pictures into a form convenient for the plugin. Now he adds products like a human manager, including images, product category, short and long descriptions, price, availability, and so on.
The last thing I need to implement is the selection of products by manufacturers. Now I’m looking for a ready-made plugin or snippet to create a separate “Manufacturers” tachonomy with products linked to it. So far, to no avail. Not even paid plugins. Although in principle, this can be implemented simply on the basis of tags. Make a separate widget that will list links to a selection of products by the tag of the desired manufacturer. In my case, these are car brands (Audi, BMW, Mercedes, etc.).
I think tomorrow I will start layout of the template itself + in parallel I will fill in the database of goods (of which there are about 3500).

Answer 3

Download a few pieces and test. Not necessarily from the WordPress plugins directory.
I myself have worked with dukapress, there are a few bugs that are quite subtle, so feel free to bypass it. There is also such a thing, I have not tried it, but it looks good: www.wp-shop.ru/

Answer 4

I was looking for plugins for WordPress that implement the functionality of the store, the conclusions are here: predvoditelev.ru/wordpress_ecommerce_plugins
In general, there is only one choice - woocommerce, so far without alternatives.

Answer 5

I ran into this issue a year ago. All vorpress stores have one problem - there are no gateways to Russian payment systems. As a result, oscommerce vam ed was pushed into the subdomain. and on the main wordpress. As an option, you can use a slightly paid webmaster, he has product widgets that, with js enabled in posts, you can use. Well, this one is so, if the scheme of work is: a selling post + a link to a couple of goods.

Answer 6

> I can’t use a specialized engine - there is simply no skill. But WordPress is up and down.
I would not say that the WP admin panel is the most intuitive and easy to use for a beginner compared to other CMS (especially after installing a bunch of plugins). Yes, and you have to learn new things (you have mastered WP), do not do everything in the world on WP because of not knowing the other.
Look at OpenCart , it's free, it's in Russian, it has great documentation. We have clients, aunties 50-60 years old, who have sat down at a computer for the second time in their lives, without any problems cope with its admin panel for their online stores.

Answer 7

My opinion: if this is a more or less serious store, then it is better to choose the appropriate engine for it and integrate the VP into it. VP + plugin is not the best solution for both a store and for a couple of dozen products, no more.

Answer 8

Greetings!
If you use the 1C program, try my solution iMegaTeleport wordpress.org/plugins/imega-teleport or teleport.imega.ru
Integration (synchronization) of Woocommerce and 1C.
I would be glad to know your opinion.

Answer 9

I offer a bunch of 1C + Woocommerce
processing on the 1C side
unloading goods (remains, prices, characteristics, pictures), categories
tightening orders
synchronization manual \ automatic mode
There is also a bunch for Joomla (VM, JoomShopping)
6 months warranty

Answer 10

I’m afraid that it’s impossible to find out and advise which online store plugin is right for you until you feel a few and decide for yourself.
I see some "flattering" reviews about the WP Shop plugin. I will intervene. The plugin works for me personally. It was not without tweaking and finishing, but in general: https://groomershop.ru/ - choosing and buying a clipper or hair dryer is quite convenient.
Developers respond to messages in the VK group . Not too fast, but still.

Answer 11

I would recommend a universal plugin for an online store https://m-bron.ru/shop

Answer 12

Fresh: WP Store