Wordpress for ecommerce site

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We can use wordpress for an ecommece site. In order to do that we will have to use ecommerce plugins like woocommerce. Sadly, webmasters do not ho with wordpress for ecommerce site. they say wordpress cannot handle big trafic. If you are planning to launch a lite lile ebay or Amazon with thousands of visitors every day, wordpress will never able to handle that kind of traffic. Is this true?
 

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The issue with Woocommerce is not really related to the traffic it can handle, but more on the amount of products. With two many products, wordpress may have performance issue due to his database architecture, and for huge store with thousands of products, it's better to choose a solution like Magento.
 

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Wordpress can be slow. I'd not suggest using Wordpress for a big e-commerce website.
Magento would be the choice, as VirtuBox suggested.
 

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As far as i know Wordpress is best for blog where for for E-Commerce you can go for Magento or any other shopping cart system like opencart etc.
 

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While WordPress is easy to use and convenient for the admin, I do not think it is the appropriate software to build a busy ecommerce web store.

Many dedicated ecommerce website solutions exist specifically for this purpose. For a good open-source shopping cart, tryp OpenCart.
 

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I think that WordPress and WooCommerce work rather well together and can handle large traffic amounts. I think it depends more on your setup including your hosting and other things that will have a big impact on how well a site handles large amounts of traffic.

There are many big sites that use WordPress and WooCommerce and seem to have no noticable problems using the two to handle large amounts of visitors.

A couple that come to mind are Clickbank.com and Bookriot.com.

Sure there might be more efficient platforms to use for an eCommerce site but using WordPress and WooCommerce would be OK as long as you have good hosting and everything setup properly.
 

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We can use wordpress for an ecommece site. In order to do that we will have to use ecommerce plugins like woocommerce. Sadly, webmasters do not ho with wordpress for ecommerce site. they say wordpress cannot handle big trafic. If you are planning to launch a lite lile ebay or Amazon with thousands of visitors every day, wordpress will never able to handle that kind of traffic. Is this true?
WordPress can handle anything. If just needs to be done right.

National News stations and Television stations have been using WordPress for years. Imagine how many daily users they have reading news articles, watching shows, and commenting.

WooCommerce...there are many stores with thousands of products that work flawlessly...some even in the range of 400K+...no issues.

With any system or CMS, it's all depends on the setup behind it. For such needs, Nginx does a better job than Apache. An optimized database, and a good cache in place will do wonders for traffic. The only exception with the cache would be WooCommerce since it needs to be dynamic, but if everything is configured properly, and with the right amount of RAM and SSD's, one will have no issues.
 

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Thanks for the informative reply. I always had an impression that wordpress cannot handle large traffic and is not suitable for the sites that will be receiving massive traffic. I read somewhere that wordpress is good for small and medium site, but not good enough for big sites. Perhaps, I read from wrong source. I have a handful of wordpress sites. Since I get moderate traffic, I have never ran into the problem with sites being slow due to traffic. I always wondered whay if I begin to get huge traffic. Your answer clarifies my question. Thanks
 

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WPCycle
You're Welcome.

With WordPress, a few things come into play with large traffic;

- amount of plugins
- type of theme
- type of content
- optimized database
- security

What happens a lot are those elements are not addressed early on, and once traffic increases, things slow down. The database is the key element within the equation. Many times old information are still within the tables like deleted posts and spam, and over time that can slow things down. Also, as ironic as using a security plugin is...all the information is stored within the tables. After a few attacks, all those IP's are stored in the database, which is why security is better before it hits a plugin (PHP and MySQL).

Again, You're Welcome :)
 

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Wordpress + woo it's a very big combo is you are a small shop.
With a lot of products, 1k or 2k become heavy and need a lot of hardware resource.
I'm proudly manage and create 2 eshop...but both has dedicated server and use a lot of cache.
 

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