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date = 2020-01-11T18:55:07Z
title = "Giana Boutique"
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tags = ["WordPress", "WooCommerce"]
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Now, this site, is one of the earliest I ever worked upon.
It was my first time using WooCommerce and second time using WordPress to build a site.

It is the site of Giana Boutique, an online ecommerce store.

Done quite some time ago.

Their [website](https://giana.rayelliott.dev/).

Uses pre-existing theme.

Nothing special required.
Main customisations were little bits of CSS to tidy some things up -- created child theme based on a theme from [ModernThemes](https://modernthemes.net/) called Exchange.

Now, onto why I used the Exchange theme?
Well, it was pretty much entirely because it was free and I thought it looked okay.
It was free and I felt it was a reasonable looking theme that I could use to get started with setting up a WordPress site to use WooCommerce.

Would I use it again?
Certainly not.
I felt it was difficult to customise, although this may have been at least partly due to my inexperience.
Doesn't really offer much over Storefront, the WooCommerce theme from Automattic???
Doesn't do much to set it above all the other similar looking WooCommerce sites around.
I feel it is perfectly fine for someone wishing to set up a WooCommerce with an acceptable theme quickly with little effort.
Not so good for developers.


Plugins used:

* [Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/).
* [Cookie Notice](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cookie-notice/).
* [Display Posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/). 
  Would most likely write own plugin for this now.
* [Hustle](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popup/).
* [iThemes Security](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/).
* [MC4WP:Mailchimp for WordPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/).
* [QuickView WooCommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-view-woocommerce/).
* [UpdraftPlus - Backup/Restore](https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/).
* [WooCommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/).
* [WP Super Cache](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/).

Would certainly reassess the best plugins available currently, if doing this site now.

Would definitely use a better theme.
Main reason using this is that it was free.
Would now almost certainly develop a child theme based on [Storefront](https://woocommerce.com/storefront/#).