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I have a client with limited funds and she wants to open a small online store. Because she is turning her life around from substance abuse and crime I want to help her out, so we'll do the site pro bono (free).
I'll use the free WooCommerce plugin. What I need is a free or very low cost store-front Genesis theme (we have a developer license to all Studio Press themes.)
Considering we will get paid nothing for this, I want to do as little work as necessary but still help her out.
Maybe there is a way to make the WooCommerce 'catalog' page the home page in which case we can use any theme?
Does anyone have any theme suggestions?
Look at the release dates of the themes on the download page. The newest ones were just updated to include WooCommerce support out of the box for Studio Press sites. They are ready to go.
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Have you requested your free website audit yet?The newest ones were just updated to include WooCommerce support out of the box for Studio Press sites. They are ready to go.
What do you mean "WooCommerce support." The few shopping carts I've put in always worked with Woo's plugin along with some special plugin for Gen. What has changed?
Thanks.
I have used this WordPress plugin for a client who only sells three or four things...
(yearly memberships) and it was a simple solution to have, incorporating Paypal.It is pretty good. Woocommerce is my preferred "go to" as it integrates well with Studio Press, and has a lot of nice functionality. Still, a BASIC solution if someone wanted it is this:
It will work with ANY WordPress theme...since you say you are doing a "pro bono" job for someone...so any "free" WP themem like Twenty-Thirteen, etc. might work..if you didn't want to use Genesis.
I plan to use Genesis since we have a developer license for it as well as the themes.
What does Studio Press mean when they say that they have included WooCommerce into their themes. Or did they put it in the framework? To the best of my knowledge Woo has always worked with SP themes. What is different (or "better" ) now?
It includes additional support for WooCommerce, much of which is theme related CSS and customizer support.
If you look in the new Parallax Pro child themes lib folder you'll find a woocommerce folder with 5 files in it.
Previously there wasn't any support coded into the child themes.
OK, thank you. I will look at the new(er) themes. With Woo support coded into the theme do we still need the Woo plugin as well as the separate Genesis plugin or are they both included in these new themes. (I've been away from the Genesis community for about a year doing simple(er) and cheap(er) Bootstrap sites http://newmediacreate.com/lim/ but am happy to get back to doing WP sites again.)
You still need WooCommerce, but you won't need Genesis Connect any longer.
Regards,
Victor
https://victorfont.com/
Call us toll free: 844-VIC-FONT (842-3668)
Have you requested your free website audit yet?You still need WooCommerce, but you won't need Genesis Connect any longer.
Thank you Victor. I was hoping someone would explain it to me.
You know, I never understood what the Genesis Woo Plugin actually did, but it always worked!
I may use this "skin" of Dynamik Web Builder (DWB) (https://cobaltapps.com/downloads/dynamik-website-builder/) which is a Genesis child theme that we have a developer license for and have had great success with over the years. Between this and our license for Studio Press themes we don't buy too many 3rd party themes anymore. We used to by 75 to 100 a year... now maybe 5 or 6... usually for special sectors like restaurants, churches, etc. We've are not comfortable with the pay-yearly paradigm that all the vendors have moved to, but that's another story altogether.
This DWB skin may work as a somewhat bare-bones, free website, store.
http://cobaltstaging.com/storefront/
I'm looking for something simple that is all built-out for me (or mostly built out.)
If anyone has other suggestions (we'll pay a reasonable fee) do post here.
Thanks again. This continues to be a wonderfully helpful community and it is nice to be back.
You still need WooCommerce, but you won't need Genesis Connect any longer.
This may be incorrect. According to StudioPress support, the Genesis Connect plugin is still required.
We put up a proof-of-concept site using Dynamik Web Builder (DWB) and WooCom at...
... and tried it with the Genesis Connect plugin and without and it worked better with it. I think that some themes have baked in the connect code.
Somewhere there must be a really good Genesis child theme designed specifically for Woo but I've not found it yet. I have not done a big search either since using the DWB and one of their free 'skins' I pretty much have what I want/need in a bare-bones e-com site that we can replicate for (paying) clients in a short period of time... pretty much out of the box (i.e. no major time-consuming customizations that 'kill' profitability.)
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