How To Set Up A Fully Functioning WooCommerce Store Using WordPress? SFWPExperts

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What are the products that can be sold on the WooCommerce store?

Before moving ahead with setting up a WooCommerce store, it is important to know what type of product can be sold on the WooCommerce store? Well, in simple words a product that has a price tag assigned to it can be sold on a WooCommerce store. But make sure that, after reading the above sentence you don’t sell anything illegal because these types of practices can land you in a place where you don’t want to be. WordPress and WooCommerce user-friendly interface have made it easy for every type of business to easily set up its online store.

Here is the list of products that you can sell on the WooCommerce store

  • Physical Products
  • Digital Products
  • Subscription & Coupons
  • Affiliate Products
  • Services
  • Membership access

How to set up a WooCommerce store?


Step-1: Select the Domain Name & hosting

The first and one of the basic steps involves buying a domain name and hosting for a WooCommerce website.

Selecting & Buying a domain name is not as difficult as it was in the past. Today there are many top companies like domain.com, namecheap.com, godaddy.com, etc allowing users to buy and select domain of their own choice. You can do some brainstorming and go through your competitor domain name to find a suitable and eye-catch domain name for your eCommerce website.

However, if we talk about selecting a top performing hosting then you should know what type of hosting you need for your website. There are many hosting providers offering different features. But it is important to identify the hosting provider that can offer the best plan with compatible features for your eCommerce website. Because every hosting that works with WordPress will not be compatible with the

If you want to know more about the things you should expect from your hosting provider then check our blog on 10 Features To Expect From An E-Commerce Website Hosting Provider

Today there are hundreds of hosting providers available in the market but it is important to find the right domain & hosting that can meet your website requirements and business needs.

How to connect the domain to hosting?

If you have brought domain name and hosting from the NameCheap then you can click here to know the detailed explanation on how you manage DNS and connect you hosting. (Even if you brought domain name from name cheap and hosting from another hosting provider then you can go through the procedure explained by them.

If you have brought your domain and hosting from Go daddy the click here to know how to set up hosting and domain name in detail.


Step-2: Install WordPress

Before operating the WooCommerce store you need to install and setup WordPress.

How to install WordPress Manually on any web hosting? 

1. Firstly, you have to download the WordPress package by clicking here (mentioned link will redirect you to the official WordPress page. There you can get the latest version of the WordPress)

2. After downloading the package, upload the WordPress package in the hosting account. You can do it in their ways

– Upload via FTP

– Upload via File Manager (most people prefer to upload it

  • Click on the file manager in cPannel
  • Navigate to Public_html folder and double click on it
  • Next, you will be redirected to an empty page where you have to upload WordPress. On the top, you can find the upload option click on it and upload WordPress zip file. Extract all the files.
  • You can move all the files to home and you will find a page displaying various files of WordPress.
  • The next move is to create a database for your WordPress website.

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