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61 lines
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draft = true
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date = 2020-01-11T18:55:07Z
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title = "Giana Boutique"
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description = ""
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slug = ""
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tags = ["WordPress", "WooCommerce"]
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categories = ["Portfolio"]
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featured_image = "/images/giana/large-1.jpg"
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externalLink = ""
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series = []
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Now, this site, is one of the earliest I ever worked upon.
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It was my first time using WooCommerce and second time using WordPress to build a site.
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It is the site of Giana Boutique, an online ecommerce store.
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Done quite some time ago.
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Their [website](https://giana.rayelliott.dev/).
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Uses pre-existing theme.
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Nothing special required.
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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.
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Now, onto why I used the Exchange theme?
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Well, it was pretty much entirely because it was free and I thought it looked okay.
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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.
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Would I use it again?
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Certainly not.
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I felt it was difficult to customise, although this may have been at least partly due to my inexperience.
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Doesn't really offer much over Storefront, the WooCommerce theme from Automattic???
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Doesn't do much to set it above all the other similar looking WooCommerce sites around.
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I feel it is perfectly fine for someone wishing to set up a WooCommerce with an acceptable theme quickly with little effort.
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Not so good for developers.
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Plugins used:
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* [Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/).
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* [Cookie Notice](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cookie-notice/).
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* [Display Posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/).
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Would most likely write own plugin for this now.
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* [Hustle](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popup/).
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* [iThemes Security](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/).
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* [MC4WP:Mailchimp for WordPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/).
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* [QuickView WooCommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-view-woocommerce/).
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* [UpdraftPlus - Backup/Restore](https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/).
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* [WooCommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/).
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* [WP Super Cache](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/).
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Would certainly reassess the best plugins available currently, if doing this site now.
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Would definitely use a better theme.
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Main reason using this is that it was free.
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Would now almost certainly develop a child theme based on [Storefront](https://woocommerce.com/storefront/#).
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