So far, I have had some time to look at JigoShop for evaluation as an ecommerce plugin for WordPress. Coming from a setup where we use dedicated CMS’s for e-commerce, the idea of a plugin seems a little too thin, relatively speaking. i.e. maybe the plugin does not have all the features that a full scaled CMS that is geared towards ecommerce use.
I have found that last part to be mostly untrue, since JigoShop supports a lot of features, right out of the box. It also has a variety of secondary plug-ins for SEO, email etc that make it powerful.
Looking closer at the JigoShop code, I realize that internally it does not use separate tables dedicated to the ecommerce functionality. Instead, it embeds and extends the core WordPress database tables for tailoring it to WordPress. At this point, I am not sure what are the advantages and disadvantages of this structure.
I will continue writing about whatever I discover about the different eCommerce plugins like WordPress.
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