Onlineshop:
Woocommerce & Childtheme
Case Study
Introduction
This Project is an onlineshop for cardboard furniture.
The project involved installing Wordpress, preparing the SQL database and adjusting
the client-side building a child theme and using pure css.
Start screen of pappmoebelshop.de
Objective
The aim of the project was to relaunch an existing web shop that was based
on Magento 1 and to replace Magento with WordPress and WooCommerce.
Start screen with hover menu
Context
The onlineshop has been the center of my work for the past 10 years.
I worked on it as a shop manager, not bein gable to fix too many things in the Magento CMS.
Wordpress was easy to work with and offered all the specific features we needed.
Product overview
Approach
- use a system that is easy to work with and handle small changes
- easy integration of payment module
- good solution for our specific shipping options
Product page
1. Step: Install WordPress & prepare SQL database
- install Wordpress on server
- changed database prefix for security reasons
2. Step: adjust theme
- create child theme, change function.php
Product page with two column grid and video
Blog archive
FAQ page
Shopping cart page
Checkout page
Reflection
It was challenging to take responsibility for the security of the shop and handling the payment solution.
Duration
Before launching the live shop, I built several test shops, also testing how to migrate. From the first test until the finished live shop it was about a year, as a part of my everyday work.