How to Create an Ecommerce Website in WordPress

I’ve just uploaded a video tutorial on how to create an commerce website in wordpress. More details to follow.

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his tutorial will be completely free. What that means is we will show you how to do everything yourself and you will only have to get what you really need to get…and that is a domain and hosting.

You need a domain for a web address. And you need hosting to run your website.

For both your domain and hosting, we are going to recommend that you go to Hostgator to get them.

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Let’s just jump right into this tutorial on learning how to create an ecommerce website with wordpress and themify shoppe.

Step 1: Register Domain and Hosting

For this tutorial we are going to recommend that you get your domain and hosting from hostgator. This is where I have recommended almost all my viewers and clients to for years.

Hostgator is fast, reliable, cheap and they have great customer service!

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Get your hosting and your domain at Hostgator. And once you’re ready, move on to step #2! We are getting closer to learning how to build your online store or learning how to create your ecommerce website with wordpress for free!

Step 2: Install WordPress

Now what I want you to do is go to your email or click on the link to go to your cpanel so we can install wordpress.

Once we’re in the cpanel, what I want you to do is find the install button to install wordpress.

WordPress is the content management system we are going to use to build our online store. It will do everything we need ?

The steps are pretty clear for installing wordpress.

And you’re done!

Now go check out the site and tell me if you see something! Because you should! Now we have a website that we are going to make into an online store with wordpress!

Step 3: Install WordPress Theme

We are going to be using a theme to build our website. If you don’t know what a time is, it is a template that has colors, settings, layout options and widgets to really help you build whatever you want.

For this tutorial on learning how to create an ecommerce website with wordpress for beginners for free 2019, we are using the themify shoppe theme.

You can download the theme zip file for free here. See link below for zip file for everything else!! Or go go to step 6 and download the zip file there.

All the other files and folders are here for download! CLICK THIS

Just know that you will need to upgrade to the premium option if you want to continue to update the theme which I do recommend.

But upgrade after you build your website and you know you want to run an ecommerce website or online store. I don’t want you to waste your money. But upgrading gives you all the features and free upgrades you want.

Please use our affiliate link if you do upgrade to themify premium for the themify shoppe theme or any other themify theme.

Now we have our wordpress theme that we will use for our ecommerce website. Perfect!

Now let’s start working toward creating our ecommerce website with wordpress.

Step 4: Install Plugins

To add plugins for the online store that we are making, we can go to our wordpress dashboard and hover over plugins and click on add new

Here is a list of the plugins you should have installed –

We will go through the woocommerce settings in more detail later ?

Step 5: WordPress Settings

To customize our wordpress settings, I want you to make two pages for the ecommerce website first.

Now we are done with this step learning how to set up our ecommerce website with wordpress. Let’s move on to the next step!

Step 6: Demo Content

If you need demo content, just click on this link right here for the zip file, or you should have this folder already if you downloaded the zip file for the theme.

You can also upload images as we go through making our pages and posts and products, so you don’t need to upload everything right now.

You also do not need to use the demo content if you have your own images! ?

Step 7: Themify Settings

For the themify settings, these are the settings for our entire wordpress website.

To go to the themify settings just hover over themify and click on Themify Settings

General

Default Layouts

Default Archive Post Layout – I leave the default settings

Default Single Post Layout – I leave the default settings

Default Page Layout

Theme Settings

Theme Appearance – Choose header design (left) and footer design (left logo)

Before footer text

Hide second footer text

Social Links – add your handles – we will have to go to the widgets and add the themify social links later to make them show up

That’s about it for the themify settings. Maybe we’ll come back here later and make some changes…you never know ?

Step 8: Create Homepage

Now we are going to go back and customize the homepage for the online store or what I like to call the ecommerce website with wordpress that we are learning how to make.

To go back to your homepage, hover over pages on your wordpress dashboard and click all pages

Now find your ecommerce homepage and click edit

Now you should be back on the homepage edit page and we will go to the themify builder to build out our online store homepage.

First we can do some stuff in the page settings

Then go turn on the front end themify builder for the ecommerce website we are learning how to make for beginners

The rest is coming. It will be updated but the video tutorial should show you everything you need!

Step 9: Woocommerce Settings

Step 10: Create Shop Page

Step 11: Create Simple Products

Step 12: Create Variable Products

Step 13: Create Virtual Products

Step 14: Create Category Pages

Step 15: Create About Page

Step 16: Customize Blog Page

Step 17: Customize Sidebar

Step 18: Create Contact Page

Step 19: Header / Footer Menu

Learn how to create an ecommerce website with wordpress for beginners. The online store we will learn how to build will be fully functional and beautiful. It will use woocommerce and help you make a beautiful ecommerce website with wordpress.

This tutorial is for beginners and advance users. It is a step by step tutorial created in 2019 to show everyone how to create an ecommerce website using wordpress step by step.

We will be using the nike online store website as a template to create our ecommerce website step by step for beginners. If you need any help or want to build an online store this is the website tutorial for you to learn ecommerce.

We cover everything from registering your domain for your online store to getting hosting to install wordpress to create your ecommerce website. If you want to learn how to build an online shop, this tutorial will show you.

We will create pages for our ecommerce website, we will show you how to install wordpress plugins and we will provide demo images that you can use to create and build and make an online store or create an ecommerce website with wordpress.

Make sure to check out the text tutorial on how to create and ecommerce website for free (using themify). We will be using a premium theme but we can provide it to you for free so you can build your online store website.

If you need any help customizing or building your online store, please leave a comment on this tutorial showing you how to create an ecommerce website with wordpress 2019 for beginners step by step and we will get back to you as soon as we can.