Three Easy Methods to Add a Product Center to a Foreign Trade Independent Website

Whether for foreign or domestic trade, most enterprise websites showcase their products. Here, Naiba shares three methods he has personally used to add products and create a product center on a website. You can choose the method that suits you best.

Method 1: WooCommerce

WooCommerce is an open-source, free e-commerce Plugin that helps businesses quickly establish a shopping mall system on their own website.Advantages:

1. Install and use immediately to quickly build a shopping mall system;
2. Professional shopping mall system with comprehensive features;
3. Enables online sales of goods.

Disadvantages:

1. Installation on domestic servers may cause the website to slow down;
2. Too bulky; if you only have a few products, installing WooCommerce alone is a bit wasteful of resources.

Further Reading:How Foreign Trade Enterprises Use WordPress to Build an E-commerce Website  

Method 2: Portfolio Plugin

There are specialized Portfolio plugins, such asWP PortfolioAfter installing a Portfolio plugin, a separate Post Type will appear in the website's Admin Dashboard. You can add categories and content within it to achieve the effect of showcasing products. Moreover, these plugins usually support display calls, allowing you to use a Page to automatically output the added Portfolio information. Some premium Theme authors directly include the Portfolio Post Type in the Theme code, so you can also add product information directly without using a plugin.Advantages:

1. Compared to WooCommerce, it consumes fewer resources;
2. Can automatically call the added Portfolio information (i.e., the product information you added).

Disadvantages:

1. If the style of the product detail page does not meet your needs, it requires separate design.

 

Method 3: Page Addition

Using Pages to add products directly utilizes WordPress's built-in functionality, making it the most resource-efficient and offering the strongest portability. Just like writing a Post, create a Page for each product.Advantages:

1. Native functionality, lightweight.

Disadvantages:

1. The product aggregation page needs to be created and added manually; it cannot be called automatically.
2. The product detail page style is unsatisfactory and needs to be designed by yourself.

The above are the three methods shared by Naibabiji for adding product pages to a website. Naibabiji's personal suggestion is: if you only have a few products, consider creating them using Pages; if you have dozens of products, consider creating them using a Portfolio Plugin; if you have many products, it is still recommended to useWooCommercea plugin to help.