Create an online store with WooCommerce

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With over five million active installations, WooCommerce is one of the most popular shop systems for e-commerce. With the shop plugin (and some basic technical understanding), it is almost easy to turn a WordPress website into a web shop. In this article, we will show you step by step how you, even as a WordPress beginner, can easily create your own online shop with WooCommerce .

First, we will also take a quick look at who WooCommerce is suitable for and what technical requirements should be met.

Who is WooCommerce suitable for?
The e-commerce plugin WooCommerce is of interest to anyone who wants to showcase and sell products easily and conveniently via an online shop. This can include small and medium-sized companies, but also self-employed people, freelancers and agencies. A certain level of technical understanding or at least interest should already be present.

The plugin allows you to create an online shop with WordPress without having to spend a lot of money. As open source software, WooCommerce is also a good way to try out e-commerce and find your way around.

But large online shops can now also be easily implemented with WooCommerce. Since the latest updates, the plugin offers a number of features that are aimed primarily at professional shop operators and agencies. In addition, it can be scaled optimally: If your online shop grows, WooCommerce grows with it. You start small with the basic version, which can be set up quite quickly, and only add extensions when you really need them. You can find all the advantages and disadvantages of WooCommerce clearly summarized in our magazine.

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What technical requirements must be met for a WooCommerce shop?
Before you can set up your WooCommerce store, you should make sure that the technical requirements are met.

WooCommerce currently requires:

PHP version 7.2 or higher
MySQL version 5.6 or higher (or MariaDB 10.0 or higher)
a WordPress memory limit of at least 128 MB
HTTPs support (one SSL certificate)
You can find all server requirements in detail in the Automattic documentation .

Overall, WooCommerce websites generate a lot of data and requests that can only be handled with powerful WooCommerce hosting . You can find out exactly what is important when choosing a hosting provider here: These are the 4 factors you should consider when choosing your WooCommerce hosting .

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WooCommerce Guide: Create a Shop in 5 Steps
So much for the theory, now comes the practice. Below we will guide you through the installation of WooCommerce on your WordPress website and show you how to set up your online shop with WooCommerce step by step.

Step 1: Install WooCommerce Plugin
The first step is to download WooCommerce as a plugin for your WordPress website. To do this, log in to WordPress and select Plugins → Install in the left navigation bar . To find the shop system among the numerous WordPress plugins, you can simply enter the keyword “WooCommerce” in the search bar.

Once you have found it, click on Install Now . Automattic should be listed as the author of the plugin. Once the installation is complete, all you have to do is activate WooCommerce and the plugin is ready to use.