Starting an eCommerce website on WordPress is an excellent idea for any business looking to establish an online presence.

WordPress has many features and tools that make creating and managing an eCommerce website easier. Not only does it provide an easy-to-use platform for setting up your store, but it also offers a variety of plug-ins and themes to customize the look and feel of your site.

Additionally, WordPress is highly secure and reliable, making it the perfect choice for businesses that want to ensure their customers’ data is safe. With its user-friendly interface, powerful features, and unbeatable security, starting your eCommerce website on WordPress will be beneficial in the long run.

A huge part of running your eCommerce website on WordPress has the right plug-ins for your eCommerce store. Different aspects of running your eCommerce website on WordPress may rely on having the correct plug-in so your shop better caters to your customers or it’s easier for you to operate your store.

If you’re planning on starting an eCommerce store on WordPress and are interested in what kinds of plug-ins you should install for your site, then this article is for you. Here are seven WordPress eCommerce plug-ins for your store that you should try this year if you haven’t yet.

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We’re going beyond pages and posts with our most recent release of the User Profiles add-on.

A new Conductor plugin add-on that allows you to query and display registered users within your WordPress website. By using the same user interface and simple query builder we use with content related data, we pass on that power to make more complex pages for your WordPress website.

Let’s take a look at the add-on and some of it’s benefits.

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Custom Post Types make WordPress a true content management system.

You can structure and organize content beyond pages and posts, which WordPress serves up by default, but lacks in the creation of custom content. Want a collection of books or team members? No problem, CPT’s can do that. You can even include “custom fields” which you can image are just fields of specific data or content, per CPT. An example would be something like having a “Team” CPT with custom fields for each team member’s social media links, and e-mail fields. Stuff you want to live outside of the typical editor.

Fun stuff — but — the act of creating & displaying your CPT’s, isn’t something that WordPress is setup to do out of the box, for the average user. You’re going to need to have a handle on some basic coding skills, if you’re planning on doing this the manual way. This is great practice for those of you that want to take your WordPress development skills to the next level.

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