Can I install woocommerce for free in WordPress for business plan?

If your main issue is performance and your traffic is that low there are at least five things I’d look at before moving to one of WordPress.com’s business plans.

– Make sure you’re not hosting with one of the bottom-of-the-barrel companies. You can run a low-traffic WooCommerce site on any halfway credible hosting plan for half as much as you pay for WordPress.com’s business hosting.
* Make sure you’ve got a credible caching plugin that’s smart enough to recognize and configure itself for WooCommerce pages. Or else follow their knowledge base recipes for WooCommerce. (WPRocket does this out of the box and I’m sure other popular caching plugins do the same.)
* Go to GTMetrics.com[1] and try it against the slow pages on your site. Go to the “Structure” and “Waterfall” tabs to see if there are any slow-loading images or blocking javascript/css files. Very often you can get a big performance boost by following their recommendations.
* Run an image optimizer to make sure you don’t have over-large media on your site. The free Imsanity plugin in the WP repository can help. Generally speaking you can get very large performance boosts with a caching plugin and optimized images.
* Make sure you’re only using .png files for images with transparency. You can get up to 95% file reductions with no visible quality change by converting a .png to .jpg.

[1] GTMetrics isn’t the best for measuring site speed but it provides very good… well… metrics of what’s fast or slow about your pages.

2 Comments

niwatoriboy says:
November 11, 2022 at 3:21 pm
Using [wordpress.com]) menas you have to pay.
If I were in your shoes I would probably try to upgrade servers.
You are probably using shared hosting, consider using a VPS and performance will improve considerably.
If you can afford a dedicated server and have more sites, I would go that way.
At least for wordpress, it’s always better for you to be able to do whatever you need without any paywalls.
RealBasics says:
November 11, 2022 at 5:07 pm
If your main issue is performance and your traffic is that low there are at least five things I’d look at before moving to one of WordPress.com’s business plans.
– Make sure you’re not hosting with one of the bottom-of-the-barrel companies. You can run a low-traffic WooCommerce site on any halfway credible hosting plan for half as much as you pay for WordPress.com’s business hosting.
* Make sure you’ve got a credible caching plugin that’s smart enough to recognize and configure itself for WooCommerce pages. Or else follow their knowledge base recipes for WooCommerce. (WPRocket does this out of the box and I’m sure other popular caching plugins do the same.)
* Go to GTMetrics.com[1] and try it against the slow pages on your site. Go to the “Structure” and “Waterfall” tabs to see if there are any slow-loading images or blocking javascript/css files. Very often you can get a big performance boost by following their recommendations.
* Run an image optimizer to make sure you don’t have over-large media on your site. The free Imsanity plugin in the WP repository can help. Generally speaking you can get very large performance boosts with a caching plugin and optimized images.
* Make sure you’re only using .png files for images with transparency. You can get up to 95% file reductions with no visible quality change by converting a .png to .jpg.
[1] GTMetrics isn’t the best for measuring site speed but it provides very good… well… metrics of what’s fast or slow about your pages.

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