There are two strategies to build eCommerce into your existing WordPress site. First, you need to figure out if you need a complete eCommerce platform (ie. you need to sell many products, complex products, integration into other systems, etc.). The reason this matters is there are many eCommerce plugins for WordPress with limited functionalities.
They may be sufficient for selling a few products or digital goods, but not running a complete eCommerce site. If you just need a few products, check out the WordPress eCommerce plugins.
To integrate a complete eCommerce platform with WordPress, you either need to choose a platform that is also built with PHP or at a minimum runs on the Linux/Apache stack. The strategy used to integrate a complete WordPress site with a full eCommerce platform is to put them on the same domain and let them share a common design. This way, the user can move seamlessly between WordPress and the eCommerce platform.
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A custom eCommerce store could cost anywhere from $12,000/year to millions. Variable factors include the amount of custom features, the complexity of design, setup investments, training, and maintenance. Check out how to determine the cost of a custom eCommerce store.
Many people commonly ask “what is a framework in web development?” Web development frameworks can easily be confused with web development tools, languages, or parts of the web development stack (like .NET, PHP, JavaScript, or Ruby).
What is the best programming language for web development?
If there was one “best” programming language, then everything else would be obsolete. The reality is that there are so many different programming languages because there is no “best” language for any situation.
Web development can vary from a few hundred to millions of dollars depending on what is needed. You may simply need some changes to something that already exists, or you'd like to build a large or complex application.
People often lump web design and development together, so what's the difference? As the Internet has evolved, the skills required to produce a high quality website or web application have changed.
Historically speaking, JavaScript was only commonly but sparingly used in web development. The multiple browsers in use at the time each supported different versions of JavaScript and were slow to render more complex Javascript.
