Removing & Reinstalling Woocommerce/Stroefront

  • Resolved markmcdermott

    (@markmcdermott)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi, community,
    I have been slowly teaching myself WP and WooCommerce through Lynda.com courses.
    I had been installing Woocommerce as part of my main WP theme. However, when the course got to the Storefront theme, I could see it was a better interface for running a shop, however, I did not want it as the main theme for my regular WP site.
    After a bit of research, I thought that the solution would be to create a “http://markmcdermott.com/wp/shop/” directory on my server, and then load WP/Woocommerce/Storefront to that.
    Well, at the moment, that store link seems to not work well, but my question is, would I be all right the Uninstall Woocommerce from my main “/wp/” page, maybe re-install it once more on the “/wp/shop/”.
    Or perhaps I should have just created a second “/wp/’ directory and site entirely instead of a sub-directory.
    Yes, I am scratching along on a free hosting site, until I get this blog to be a bit more serious. So the main WP site and the Storefront took up both of the SQL databases I’m allowed on the site anyway.

    Or was there another way to apply the Storefront theme to my store only, and leave the rest of my site at Twenty-seventeen?

    Thanks!
    Mark

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  • Mikey Arce

    (@mikeyarce)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi @markmcdermott,

    First off, welcome! I got started doing the same things you are doing, so keep at it! 🙂

    > After a bit of research, I thought that the solution would be to create a “http://markmcdermott.com/wp/shop/” directory on my server, and then load WP/Woocommerce/Storefront to that.

    I don’t usually recommend this because you just end up having more sites to manage. There are lots of themes that support WooCommerce so my suggestion would be to find one that works well for your whole site. Having to maintain 2 sites with 2 themes will just be a lot of extra work.

    One neat thing is that WooCommerce works really well with all the default themes like Twenty Sixteen, Twenty Seventeen, etc, so maybe try one of those?

    > Well, at the moment, that store link seems to not work well, but my question is, would I be all right the Uninstall Woocommerce from my main “/wp/” page, maybe re-install it once more on the “/wp/shop/”.

    You can definitely do that, but I’m not sure if that will fix the problem. I would suggest just deactivating instead of fully uninstalling in case you decide you want it back. It sounds like a permalinks issue so maybe see what your .htaccess is doing and if you can re-save permalinks.

    Cheers,

    Thread Starter markmcdermott

    (@markmcdermott)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Mikey,

    Thanks for the suggestions. Basically, working off the Lynda.com tutorial, I liked their suggested “Storefront” theme, but did not like that it overrode the entire WP site. But as a means of practice, maybe it would be all right to run two sites of one admin account, again, just as a form of practice.

    This is just intended to be a personal site, also some of the tags I use will have some domains I own referring to them (that’s probably not good practice either). The shop would just be my way of moving my collectibles without the addition of eBay or Amazon fees, or that fact that amazon won’t let me sell old videos, or multiple copies of some comics. But it’s also all meant as a sandbox for me to get some useful WP skills.

    Thanks again. If you see my current markmcdermott.com site (no ‘/wp/”) you’ll see that I have a lot of room for improvement.

    Mark

    Mikey Arce

    (@mikeyarce)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hey Mark,

    That sounds like a great plan! It’s not always about doing things “the best way”, but what works for you the best right now. I always think breaking things is the best teaching method 🙂

    I’m really impressed with your site, you’ve done really well learning from Lynda.com. I always recommend Morten’s videos to people, he’s a great teacher.

    Happy to have you here!

    Thread Starter markmcdermott

    (@markmcdermott)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks again for the encouragement! I realize I’m trying to set one WP site to handle several functions; not just as a shop of my own, but to direct some other URLs I own to certain categories, since I find I can give category tags their own front page, too. Soon musical cheese.com will link to one of those pages, and to my air checks on Mixcloud.com.

    One thing Morton didn’t cover in his intro video, which seems kind of important, is how to set up and work from child themes. well, I’m sure I’ll get it worked out for myself.

    And it’s interesting to see how some of the packages I’ve downloaded have updates that the videos only hope for, just a few months later; as in, yes I CAN print mailing labels.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by markmcdermott.
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