Running an ecommerce store on WordPress/WooCommerce.
Titles, prices and images move between Shopify and WooCommerce in an afternoon. Variants, collections, metafields and URLs do not, and the redirects have to exist before DNS changes. What maps, what has to be rebuilt, and the order to do it in.
7 min readA store that felt quick at 200 products can crawl at 20,000. The cause is usually the storage model underneath WordPress, not the server it runs on.
7 min readThe CSV importer does exactly what the file tells it, which is the problem. How variations, SKUs, images and timeouts behave, and how to make an import you can safely run twice.
7 min readPermalink bases, category indexing, product schema ownership and filtered URLs are settled early on a WooCommerce store and expensive to change once indexed. Which decisions those are, how to make them, and what an SEO plugin leaves for you to do.
7 min readA variable product that shows out of stock while its sizes have units on the shelf is a modelling mistake, not a bug. How attributes, terms and variations relate, where the SKU and the stock count belong, and the CSV shape that builds it correctly.
7 min readCheck a WooCommerce product CSV before you import it: missing columns, duplicate SKUs, orphaned variations and malformed prices, by row.
Convert a product CSV between Shopify and WooCommerce column formats in either direction, with every dropped column listed explicitly.
Generate consistent SKU codes in bulk from a custom pattern, with variant permutations, sequential numbering and collision checking. Free, no sign-up.
