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How To Build An E-Commerce Website or Online Shop Using WordPress?

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The  Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) like, Wordpress has changed the way that websites can be developed, and almost 30% websites are powered by WordPress. In addition,  more and more users are accessing Internet using laptop, smart phones and also they shop online too and to grab this opportunity many companies are launching e-commerce websites well known examples are E-bay and Amazon but these are not the only one thousands of e-commerce platforms such as, country specific and product specific are on the web and they are running successfully. However, some small business owners think that they can not open their online shop, because it involves a lot of technical knowledge of computer programming, although ever since WCMS system has come, like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal  the website development and management have become like managing a social media website,  and that is true.  In this article, I will explain that  how can you build your own online shop using WordPress. To open an online shop you will need the the following.
1-A Domain Name
2- Web Hosting
3- An SSL Certificate
4- An E-commerce Plugin
Do not worry you can purchase  1, 2 and 3 from one place and in one click you can install an e-commerce plugin. Now, I am going to illustrate step-by-step.
For domain name, hosting and SSL certificate choose Bluehost which is officially recommended my affiliate link for Bluehost is given below and install WordPress.
bluehost After installing WordPress on BlueHost server , you have a website then you will need an e-commerce plugin to convert your website into an online shop popular e-commerce plugins are.
1-Woocommerce
2-Shopify
3-Magento
You can choose any of the above three e-commerce plugin for WordPress, to setup it will require Income Tax information and bank account to transfer money in your account, once you provide these information your online shop is ready you can upload images and price of your products and if there are physical products specify that where you can deliver.
Conclusion- In this article, I have demonstrated that how to build an online shop using WordPress hope it will help you.







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