_s VS WooCommerce

I tried a lot of themes, in my experience GeneratePress is the fastest, unless you decide to go fully custom and go with _s (but it will be a lot of dev work).

If you've got dev chops in PHP, then Underscores is a good "starter" theme to build your theme off. It looks after a lot of the WP related stuff, letting you focus on the template/HTML/JS/CSS stuff.

Just to add since your new to WordPress and want to save a bunch of time you can use this springboard of a theme that's designed to be turned into what you want and saves hours of time. Underscores

Underscores is likely your best bet.

I would say underscores. I believe it’s by the Automattic team https://underscores.me

I used PHP, JavaScript, and a little bit of Python. I think themes are pretty easy you should try out _s which is a theme template for WordPress and there are similar things for plugins. I learned from this youtube series which is really good -> Wordpress Plugin Developement.

Underscrores or GeneratePress.

I ended up adopting an ITCSS inspired approach as a result of developing wordpress themes with underscores. You can see the current scss structure for starting a project with underscores here.

Another case involves a duo launching an eco-friendly e-commerce website. Using WordPress paired with WooCommerce, they built a fully featured site with a sustainable operational model. Enhanced analytics from Matomo brought data-driven insights and growth strategies to life. This project highlights the benefits of cost-effective, community-driven solutions in the competitive e-commerce landscape.

Platforms like WordPress combined with WooCommerce allow for seamless website and e-commerce management.

📌 Learn More About WooCommerce: https://woocommerce.com/

WooCommerce is a free online WordPress plugin that allows developers to manage online stores by providing quick setup configurations for product display, managing orders, and processing payments via the multiple payment gateways option provided.

It might be sketchy, but WooCommerce is a GPL project: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/trunk/plugin...

This is explicitly the sort of thing that WP Engine would be allowed to do.

Over the past year, we’ve been working on a subscription-based e-commerce system that allows users to sell both physical and digital products. Throughout this journey, we’ve explored numerous open-source platforms, including MedusaJS (a headless CMS alternative to Shopify), WooCommerce for WordPress, and Shopware (Open source e-commerce platform). One thing became clear: there’s a significant demand for a native subscription system, yet no major e-commerce platform currently offers this feature natively.

WooCommerce (originally, WooThemes) is a free, flexible, open-source commerce solution built on WordPress that allows you to turn your website into an online store. It is used by more than four million online stores worldwide. WooCommerce is customizable and can be used to sell physical, digital, or both types of products. One way to create a headless commerce site on WooCommerce is by using the WooCommerce REST API.

Yes, it is possible. You need to establish your own API connection using the WooCommerce endpoints defined in the documentation at https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/trunk/docs/rest-api/getting-started.md.

Woocommerce plugin formats the price in javascript for Filter Products by Price widget. You may check out the source.