Using WordPress Commerce on a Stand Alone HTML Site

  • JustWyoming

    (@justwyoming)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hello,
    I have a client who has an html site we are launching. The content of the site will not change much, and she doesn’t want the whole site to be wordpress – and has had most of it already designed to be static.

    Now she wants to add shopping cart features. We are looking at WooCommerce with Paypal.

    My question:

    Can we use a wordpress shopping cart like a blog? For example they click on “shop” and it brings up the wordpress/woo commerce interface? Will it be a matter of a subfolder in my root folder for the main site when I upload it?

    Her site is not launched yet.

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  • Sleneau

    (@sleneau)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    It’s way easier to just use a WordPress install for the entire website. You can create static pages with WordPress, and still have the pages for your shop accessible. Even if you wanted to preserve the other pages of your website as separate, it wouldn’t really make sense, since you would have to do a full WordPress install anyway.

    At the end of the day, having a separate wordpress install that isn’t connected at all to the other website you’re using is far more work than it’s worth.

    KostasNi

    (@kostasni)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hi JustWyoming,
    I agree with Sleneau, it makes more sense to have the whole site run on WordPress.

    If however that is out of the question, you can do exactly what you said. Create a /shop directory, install WordPress in that directory and have the Front Page show the main WooCommerce page.

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