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mo_ztt , (edited )
@mo_ztt@lemmy.world avatar

Wordpress 1,000% (probably coupled with WooCommerce but there are probably some other options)

I honestly don't even know off the top of my head why you would use anything else (aside from some vague elitism connected to the large ecosystem of commercial crap which has tainted by association the open source core of it) -- it combines FOSS + easy + powerful + popular. You will have to tiptoe around some amount of crapware in order to keep it pure OSS though.

RobotToaster ,
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the large ecosystem of commercial crap which has tainted by association the open source core of it

Isn't the main shop plugin (woocommerce) heavily infested with that though?

mo_ztt ,
@mo_ztt@lemmy.world avatar

Everything Wordpress is heavily infested with that. However you don't have to let it impact you -- it kind of looks to me like they pressure commercial vendors to put their stuff under the GPL if they're wanting to offer a free version, so there's a robust ecosystem of actually-FOSS tooling for it. My experience has been that it's always worked pretty well in practice; you just have to keep your nope-I'm-not-paying-for-your-paid-version goggles firmly affixed. (Also, side note, GPT does an excellent job of writing little functions.php snippets for you to enable particular custom functionality for your Wordpress install when you need it.)

lemmyvore ,

LOL, getting GPT to write code for the most unholy combination of the worst the blog and e-commerce have to offer, that should work well.

mozz ,
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Honestly having GPT write one-off code for you for particular selected pieces (esp ones that require a lot of domain knowledge) works pretty well in my experience

foggy ,

Yeah, anything you wanna do on WordPress, you can do. But someone else has also already done, and likely offers it through their plugin ecosystem. The question is, is that plugin FOSS, and if not, are you ready to do it yourself?

The caveat to doing anything yourself for e-commerce is liability. Just make sure your shit is secure, up to date, tested, encrypted, backed up, etc.

smileyhead ,

I had to migrate shop from WooCommerce to PrestaShop.
The store is for both Poland and Germany, so two countries, two different currencies, languages and tax zones. With WooCommerce every simple thing like multicurrency requires a plugin. Then you need a plugin for multiple languages, then for multiple tax zones, then multiple client bases (retail and B2B)...
With PrestaShop all of we needed for that basic but two-country store was a payment plugin.

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