ShopWP

You can think of WordPress as the frontend and Shopify as the backend. You still manage your store data inside Shopify (e.g., changing prices) and those changes automatically show inside WordPress. ShopWP is bundled with its own fly-out cart experience and allows you to sell directly on WordPress. When the user is ready to checkout, they’re redirected to the defalt Shopify checkout page to enter payment information.

After installing the plugin, you can connect your Shopify store by following the easy to use wizard. After connecting, you can display your products in the following ways:

• Using the default pages “example.com/products” and “example.com/collections”
• Shortcodes
• Programmatically through the plugin’s Render API

You can also create product detail pages by syncing the product posts.

We’ve gone to great lengths to ensure we’ve conformed to all the SEO best practices including semantic alt text, Structured Data, and indexable content.

They used to, but it has been discontinued.

Instead, Shopify has moved their attention to the buy button embed; allowing users to show products with a JavaScript code snippet. The main drawback to this is that Shopify uses iFrames for the embed which limits the ability for layout customizations. Additionally, managing multiple JavaScript embeds can get annoying really fast.

In contrast, ShopWP creates an iFrame-free experience allowing you to sync Shopify data directly into WordPress. We also save the products and collections as custom post types which unlocks the native power of WordPress itself.

The only “Unfortunately no. We rely on the main Shopify API which doesn’t expose third-party app data. However the functionality found in many of the Shopify apps can be reproduced by other WordPress plugins.

Documentation on how to display your products can be found here.

ShopWP does not handle any portion of the checkout process. When a customer clicks the checkout button within the cart, they’re redirected to the default Shopify checkout page to finish the process.

Absolutely! In fact this is our recommendation if you intend to only sell on WordPress. More information on Shopify’s Lite plan

Absolutely! ShopWP doesn’t prevent you from using Shopify on other platforms like Facebook or using a Shopify theme directly.