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Turn Your WordPress Blog Into A Business Website

Updated on September 15, 2017
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Vijoy has been a in the field of content writing for a decade gaining experience in various technologies and concepts.

If you are looking for a reason to like WordPress, don’t worry! There are plenty. However, it is the access to a large catalog of plugins which improves the performance that makes one of the major reasons to use and like WordPress. Even the folks at the WordPress.org know about it and they feel that the snippets of code can really help your blog to do anything that you want or imagine. Frankly, they do a lot, especially for e-commerce.

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WordPress and E-Commerce

Sometimes it might seem difficult to remember how revolutionary e-commerce is. Not long ago, a successful sale of your physical or electronic product from your website means searching and evaluating high-end software. So, it means you need a huge amount of knowledge on how to manage and install the tool, obtain a lot of money and create accounts with various services to function in a proper way.

But with WordPress, it is a different thing. In a WordPress, you can easily create hype for your products and services. It is not taxing and is enjoyable. The two basic features of the WordPress are the pages and posts.

Difference Between Pages and Posts

Posts
Posts are commonly seen on blog pages. WordPress posts are often listed in chronological order where the most recent post will be displayed first. In addition, these will be easily available with a comment form which is used by users to interact and communicate with the author of the blog.

To find the most recent blog post, just click on the category that you want to read the post from or click the archives based on the date to view the post pertaining to the required time period.

Pages
Quite similar to the posts, there is a slight difference in terms of the order in which a page is displayed. A page is not displayed in chronological order as they aren’t dated. WordPress website pages are the common site pages that you can find in the menu bar across the sidebar or top of the site. Basically, these are static pages and the perfect example of such website pages are ‘About’, ‘Home’, ‘FAQ’, ‘Contact’, etc.

Converting Your WordPress Blog Into A Website For Your Business

The following are the steps you need to follow to make your WordPress blog into an interactive e-commerce website -

● First, make sure to create many pages that you want for your business site. Create a page called ‘Home’ which will be used as homepage and even create a page called ‘Blog’ which will be used as a blog post page for posting your blogs.

● Next, go to the ‘Settings’ option which is present in the menu located on the left side of the blog. In addition, there will be a drop down menu called ‘Reading’ under the Settings option. You need to click that.

● Now the first option that you will come across is the ‘Front Page Displays’ and then click on the ‘A Static Page’ option.

● Once the ‘A Static Page’ option is clicked, you need to set the page which will be the homepage. Now select the page which you have labeled as Home and Blog.

● Next, scroll down and then you need to click the option ‘Save’ to update the changes.

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Using Plugins To Convert WordPress Blog Into Website

It is quite easy and simple to install as well as configure few plugins in your WordPress admin panel to convert it into a business website. Many of the online tools are free while some aren’t. Below are few of the best and commonly used e-commerce plugins to convert your WordPress blog -

● WooCommerce
This is one of the premium e-commerce solutions and it easily works with the WooThemes and is available from the same vendor. Unlike other plugins, the WooCommerce is one of the extensible solution, where users can select and make payments for features that can make their e-commerce dream real.

The best part of using this tool is the insights you get with regard to the reporting capabilities however, these stats are primarily based on the performance of the product.

● WP-eCommerce
Do you know what is the cornerstone of e-commerce? It is shopping cart software. Customers often require a method to choose as well as browse products on the site and even to place orders. WP-eCommerce is one of the best shopping cart solutions which is free to use and covers the basics, accepts coupon codes, compatible with many payment gateways like Google Wallet, PayPal and with all kinds of WordPress theme.

No doubt, a plug-in which works effectively with your theme is quite beneficial as you won’t need to change the whole brand and look of your website, especially once you have a loyal audience.

● Cart66
This plugin is a paid one which cost roughly about $25 each month along with the annual subscription. And the best part is that it is money well piddled. Frankly, this premium plugin displays great e-commerce security features.

Also, it even helps in the sales of digital and physical products. What makes this plugin different from other ones found online is its ability to take care of the payments and orders of both the subscription and membership services.

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Wrapping Up

Converting your WordPress Blog into a website is easy and even advantageous. Not only it ensures that you reach your potential audiences, but really creates the required demand for your products and services. However, it doesn’t mean that your WordPress blog will completely get converted into a website.

You are simply adding certain extra pages and features to your WordPress blog to make it resemble like a normal website. So, if you are looking for an economical way of managing your website and blog, then this method of converting your WordPress blog into a business website is feasible.

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