Online stores are the new hype and rightly so as the world has shifted to the internet. What, and those who remained offline also had to seriously consider their businesses’ survival due to COVID. Business with online outreach survived the pandemic. Giants like Amazon and Ali Baba’s OLX business increased multiple folds, so did their worth.

It is high time businesses should be started online through WordPress to tap masses. Creating sites selling online products is no longer expensive work that once was. There is several software available free of cost that can create online stores through the plethora of plug-ins available and offer a wide variety of customization available cost-free.  One such example is WooCommerce.

What is Plug-ins?

Plug-ins are used on the website to add and enhance the features of the website. They are also called modules but are commonly known as plug-ins. Sites are run on codes, and there is a large variety of codes that are used simultaneously to top to bottom on a website. The plug-in is code that can be added to the existing code to enhance functionality and diversity, creating a dynamic site.

Initially, when you purchase your phone, it is on factory settings, and although it has all the main features, you require additional functions that you need and those you download desired apps. It helps customize the generic features to your phone.

There are available top rated collection of WordPress plugins. These include plug-ins that can calculate and improve the ranking of the site, create multiple online shops with variations and improving formats, for example. A very cost and time effective plug-in for WordPress is WooCommerce which helps develop a dynamic website for a user to create their online store.

What is WooCommerce?

WooCommerce is a WordPress plug-in specially designed to have features that are solely for the purpose of selling products. It is a heavy plug-in but user-friendly interface that has inbuilt features to create a modern and dynamic website to initiate and regulate your online store.

Why WooCommerce?

WooCommerce is one of the leading platforms used to create online stores. It is owned and maintained by Automatic, a leading company that makes innovative software. It is being used by twenty-eight per cent of online stores on the web. Having such a lead in the web world WooCommerce is here to stay.

Websites that use WooCommerce can add features through it that sells physical products as well as non-physical products. It gives a wide variety and range making it extremely flexible such as it can be used to sell a simple product, or a group of products with varying features as well as the variable that means a product can have multiple options like colour, size, length etc.

It also has features including details, such as whether the product being sold is virtual, whether it’s a downloadable entity. WooCommerce includes features that can monitor inventory online plus all its shipping details like time, address etc.  Using this platform, you can sort your products category wise, so it is easier for the end-user to look for products under its related category.

The in-built products serve as a showroom where you can display the selling items along with their relevant details. The software is absolutely free and offers an additional three hundred and twenty add-ons also cost-free. There are several plug-ins available on WooCommerce some of them we can have a look below:

1.   Anti Spam

It helps control spam. Usually, when you create a website, you start getting messages generated by bots. The anti-spam helps control the spam messages

2.   RankMath

It is a free SEO plug-in. This plug-in is used to elevate the site in its ranking and create search optimistic content

3.   Smush

It is an image optimizer plug-in. It is used to enhance the visual dynamics of the website as well as the images of the products on display. It divides the visuals into categories to improve it’s a quality

4.   W3 Total Cache

Helps speed the loading of images and various links on the website allowing users to have a refreshing experience of fast online shopping

5.   Broken Line Checker

This plug-in allows you to check for broken links present on the website. When you are using external pages, there is always a chance that if those pages are taken off the content on your website will be affected. So in order to make life easier this plug-in give you details of the broken link so you can skip reviewing everything and directly fix the problem.