I'm going mad. Is there a simple solution to creating a small e-commerce website? With #WordPress you're paying for multiple premium plugins and it's just bonkers. It's like being caught in a web.
@davep just my 2 CTS but of you want WordPress+ecommerce+multilingual you should consider investing in Polylang. It's honestly the most reliable, stable and well coded solution for multilingual wp sites. If your site is not very complex or does not evolve really fast you can run it for several years without needing to update if you need to cut cost
Also WordPress sites are a magnet for every wannabe hacker on the planet.
Just picture that scene in Blazing Saddles where Hedley Lamarr lists all the folks he wants to scare the townsfolk in Rock ridge. That's who will be constantly testing the site security 🫤
Unless you have some very good security options then you'll be fire-fighting one issue after the other.
@davep Shopify works as a pretty solid base but it also has a paid plugin ( they call it apps ) eco system if you want to do something outside the box.
@aloppnow
It's not cheap at $36/month for the basic option either (which I think is the first tier to allow multiple languages). But it looks better integrated for stocks than the WordPress WooCommerce additional plugins.
@davep $36 that includes nice hosting ( so far never had a downtime with Shopify) and payment processing (with some fees). It's a solid platforms. I have no experience in multilingual stores 🙂
@aloppnow Thanks. I think the basic multilingual stuff is included (3 languages?) at that tier, which would cover most of the market. And it's integrated, unlike the WordPress mess.
@davep the only one I've ever done ans it was only a couple of languages, had a simple plug in that swapped the text in the page, a long time ago though.
@davep@Extelec Let's face it: multilingualism isn't the brightest side of #WordPress. Not yet anyway, since it's on the roadmap and hopefully things will change within 2025 https://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/
Otherwise, I don't have much experience with #multilingual stores, but the multisite approach suggested by the Woo article you linked is an overkill solution in my opinion and of course creates sync issues, etc.
@cyberia@Extelec
I saw there were stock sync issues with the likes of WPML etc across different languages. I'm not sure it'll be a huge problem as we won't be selling hundreds per day (and if we do, we could afford something more bespoke!).
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