You don’t want to slow down after you decide to build a store with woocommerce. However, if the store does not consider longevity, problems may arise over time. Serious problems such as slow loading of product pages, failure of extended functions, data loss or security violations. All these problems ultimately boil down to one problem. This means a reduction or total loss of charging customers. To maintain the profitability of woocommerce stores, long-term stability, security and performance must be considered. Let’s take a look at how to build a woocommerce store that lasts for months, years or more.
Start or migrate with stable, scalable hosting. The woodpress plug-in wocommerce inherits the same flexibility as the parent software. You can select the company to be hosted, install it on the new server or used server, and allocate more or less resources, as shown below: What you want. This flexibility is a great thing, but it can also lead to some complications. Although it started smoothly, it may go downhill as it grows and needs more resources. If the store receptionist lacks power or does not respond, he will be frustrated There may be a loss of sales.
The best way to avoid this is to start with a stable website host that can grow with you, or consider migration. This host must provide the following options: 24×7 support to help you solve all problems. Additional points supported by chat or other valuable flexible options, boutique upgrade or increase hard disk space, memory Read comments on managed hosting options for WordPress based websites, read and ask others for advice to provide minimal flexibility, plan more resources, add bandwidth, etc., and reduce the burden of important security updates and other WordPress related requirements. Before making the final decision to deploy the site, please contact the host being evaluated directly. And remember: you can get as much as you pay. So don’t be surprised even if the $1.99 monthly hosting doesn’t work in busy stores!
Please protect the store from the first day. Although it is difficult to accept, there are matters that need to be understood. If you own an online store, you will be the target. It doesn’t matter how new, how small or how many gaps the market is. The fact that you collect customer information, collect money and distribute products puts others who can get close to you and your store in front of evil people. It doesn’t take much time and cost to protect the store, and it will bear fruit in the long run. Fortunately, protecting the woocommerce store won’t take much time, and you can keep your data safe for the long term with minimal effort. You may be surprised to find that the best way to stay safe is free.
Choose a secure password to use dual authentication when logging in (email, social media, wordpress.com account, etc. – hackers can access your information anywhere first in order to reset other passwords) default \
There are more feasible ways to protect stores. I was first exposed to this safety tip and woocomerce in the new store
Or, no matter how many years you’ve been using it, try some intermediate suggestions that anyone can use. The data protection store with backup contains important data from customer information to product details and carefully crafted content. What happens if the host loses all data due to a massive outage? Are you afraid to think about it? But you need to think about it. Preparing for the worst case of data loss is one of the best ways to prepare a store for long-term success. This is because you don’t have to spend time manually entering data, setting up products, or apologizing to customers
Automatically create backups, or easily recover data in case of loss, or errors or update errors. This cheap solution provides inner peace and prevents the store from being in a position where data is suddenly lost or unrecoverable. In the post of preparing to update woocommerce, learn more about the use of tools such as woocommerce backup and preparation site. The beauty and openness of open source solutions such as woocomerce by selecting additional functions from sources with good reputation. If you need to do something in the store that you can’t do right now, just find the right extension. No one can stop you from adding to the store the way you want.
But as they say, great power comes with great responsibility. This applies to you, of course, but especially to those who develop plug-ins, extensions, and additional features. Plug ins and extensions are the cause of problems that are often overlooked. If the woocommerce extension is not updated or maintained, especially when a large number of extensions are used, the execution mode of the store will be greatly affected. Now multiply it by 10, 20 or 100 and you’ll know how this can seriously harm your longevity. Use the plug-ins and extensions of known developers to keep the store code clean and give full play to a high level of performance. When selecting a plug-in or extension to use with the woocommerce store, look for the following features:
Maintain compatibility with the current versions of WordPress and woocommerce, and modify the appropriate number of updates such as bugs – this is not a good sign if there are no updates in a few months or a year. Quality support – if the plug-in is free, WordPress. Do the questions on the org page provide answers in the right time? If it’s for a fee, or if it’s just available elsewhere, can you read comments on response time, support level and troubleshooting capabilities? It is recommended that the provider of a given plug-in or extension be evaluated in the same way as the additional functionality itself. If the store cannot work normally after the extension is updated, and the developers are not interested in solving the problem, they may face major problems.
For example, if you use a third-party extension to enable a new product type in the store, but the extension is interrupted due to a major word press update, you may not be able to sell that type of product until the problem is resolved. If you choose a reputable developer extension, it will be tested before these major updates occur, so this is less likely to happen. Finally, it is important to put maintenance first. The last way to make the store last is to maintain it. This means performing recommended security updates or adjustments to keep WordPress and woocommerce updated, keep plug-ins and extensions up-to-date, and ensure continuous compatibility with all solutions used.
Process updates once a week, or conduct extensive testing and extension reviews once a month, and then push them in real time
We recommend that you keep a dedicated time to maintain the store, such as using these sites. How much time you spend depends on the size of the store and the number of additional features used. As suggested in this post, it may be reasonable to create monthly appointments for maintenance and updates. Set up updated recurring schedule conventions as needed. The occurrence and duration of these updates shall be based on the amount of expansion retained and the most convenient time for updating. It may seem strange to create such a process, but the rapid entry into daily life and regular maintenance no longer hinder the regular work schedule. If you save time for updating, updating will become a priority and the store will remain healthy in the coming months and years. Woocomerce provides the foundation. Maintenance depends on the user. If you choose to use woocommerce to build a store, it will provide you with a solid foundation so that you can start a flexible free platform and make changes and additions as needed. But the last thing you do is up to you. Only by keeping up-to-date, maintaining the integrity of store data and working with reliable partners can we create reliable products after listing. Nevertheless, we hope to help us lead the way and have reliable (most importantly) profitable stores. Do you have any questions? Please leave your comments below. I’d be happy to help. Recommended reading: importance of managing woocommerce updates tips for creating and using store backups
