What is WooCommerce?

Lately, the buzz word for e-commerce is WooCommerce. So what’s WooCommerce? And is WooCommerce the right solution for your organization? Let’s begin with the basics of WooCommerce. It is an open source plugin designed for WordPress users who want to customize their sites fully with the power of e-commerce but also using WordPress as their backbone and content management system (CMS). Unlike other e-commerce platforms, WooCommerce needs WordPress in order to fulfill its full potential. You can’t take advantage of WooCommerce without first using WordPress to build on your store.

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What is WordPress?

When you search for content management systems today, the top result you’ll most likely get is WordPress. And that’s not really a surprising fact. According to w3techs, WordPress powers about 42.9% of all websites, and its content management system (CMS) has a market share of 64.1% 1. It wasn’t the first content management system, but it’s been the one that’s taken off and become the most popular. When you’re looking to use a CMS to build your website, you’re most likely going to end up with WordPress. So, what is WordPress, what does it offer, and how can it help you, your business and your website WordPress is used by two out of every five websites?

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