Platforms & Getting Started articles

Platforms & Getting Started 287 Installing Magento for an online shop Magento is the heaviest shop platform in the cPanel installer. It installs in minutes like the others, but it does...
Platforms & Getting Started 294 Making Magento run fast A freshly installed Magento is slow on purpose: it ships in developer mode, with caching off and nothing optimised,...
Platforms & Getting Started 334 Recovering the Magento administrator password Magento is the only one of the big platforms in the installer where there is no button to change the administrator...
Platforms & Getting Started 328 Installing PrestaShop PrestaShop sits between OpenCart and Magento: it arrives with catalogue, promotions, carriers and tax rules already...
Platforms & Getting Started 296 Installing OpenCart OpenCart is the lightest of the three shop platforms in the installer. It goes up in a minute, needs no extra PHP...
Platforms & Getting Started 320 WooCommerce: what it is, and what you need before you start WooCommerce is a free plugin that turns a WordPress site into a shop: catalogue, cart, checkout, orders, customers...
Platforms & Getting Started 264 Setting up your WooCommerce shop: the settings that matter WooCommerce has hundreds of settings and almost all of them can stay as they are. Half a dozen decide whether the...
Platforms & Getting Started 304 A shop that holds up: what to do before you open A shop that is idle is a website. A shop that is selling is a system, and it fails in ways an ordinary site never...
Platforms & Getting Started 306 Opening an online shop without starting from nothing Building a shop from scratch, product by product, text by text, is what makes most people give up halfway. It is not...
Platforms & Getting Started 223 Which plugins an online shop really needs, and which to leave out Search for “best WooCommerce plugins” and you get lists of thirty. A real shop needs few, and every extra plugin is...
Platforms & Getting Started 237 Marketplace or your own shop: how to decide where to sell A marketplace is an online shopping centre: it already has the visitors, it has the rules, and it keeps a share of...
Platforms & Getting Started 203 Dropshipping explained: how it works and what it asks of your shop In dropshipping you sell, but you do not hold the product: when an order comes in, you pass it to a supplier, who...
Platforms & Getting Started 217 WooCommerce, PrestaShop, OpenCart or Magento: what each one asks of the server Four shop platforms, four different appetites. The question “which is best” has no answer; the question “which fits...
Platforms & Getting Started 212 Changing shop platform: what to carry across and what breaks Changing shop is not copying a folder. Platforms store products, customers and orders in different ways, and the old...