I have an unpopular opinion: WooCommerce is quite awful for e-commerce, at least if you’re a developer. On that subject, WordPress itself is quite awful for e-commerce, but that’s a discussion for another day.
While developing a custom theme and plugin that relied on WooCommerce, I constantly ran into things that were extremely agitating. Things such as un-editable frontend strings that require hacky workaround fixes since there is no built-in translation system. When you try to find ***developer*** documentation but only find pages that tell you which plugin to buy for $X/year. The sheer bloat it creates for non-e-commerce pages including asset loading and database queries. The list goes on.
So – from any developers out there – what is your preferred solution to e-commerce on WordPress?
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You’re not wrong.
I don’t have a solution, but I’d love to hear others’ opinions.
WordPress in general and WooCommerce itself needs an architectural overhaul, but that would probably kill the ecosystem. Think of how much Drupal changed when re-architecting to Symfony. I can’t picture a viable way to make the transition.
I’m aware of, but can’t really comment on, [BigCommerce]). The link is to the WP plugin. You can also use their platform directly.
Are you looking to bolt a shop onto a content site? Then Woo is what you’re looking for. If on the other hand the primary aim of the site is ecommerce then you should be looking at an ecommerce focused CMS like Magento.
[https://classiccommerce.cc/]) is a forked woocom option.