Installing WooCommerce on Static HTML site

  • I have a static HTML site https://www.hebrewwordpics.com and I wanted to add a WooCommerce store to it that will integrate with Square for payments. I purchased SSL from my host (PowWeb) and installed WooCommerce at https://www.hebrewwordpics.com/wp-store. I purchased the WooCommerce/Square integration plugin and installed it over a month ago. I installed a storefront child theme to hang onto my changes.

    Being a total newby to WordPress, I have had multiple problems trying to set this up and keep this thing running. Every few days something new goes wacko. For a while the store took over my whole domain so I couldn’t even access the static HTML site until my host rerouted the domain name to hebrewwordpics.com/index.html. I’m having http: vs https: screen build conflicts that cause style.css to be ignored sometimes. I cannot get the WooCommerce menus, breadcrumbs, or logo link to consistently show a way back to the HTML static site. These errors and others are intermittent and seem to appear and disappear at will. Every time I open a support ticket with my host, they escalate it to a higher level tech, and by the time that new tech looks at it, everything is working fine.

    I was hoping for a seamless integration of the HTML and store sites, but it just isn’t happening yet. Am I trying to make something happen here that I shouldn’t be messing with? Can static HTML sites and WordPress sites coexist on the same domain nicely? Googling and searching these forums concerning static HTML seems to just give ways to convert WP to HTML or vice versa. Advice please.

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  • Why not giving up the static HTML site and bring everything over to wordpress???
    I see no sense in running 2 separate “systems”, if there is a possibility to simply manage everything from the WP-dashboard.

    Thread Starter ctclinesmith

    (@ctclinesmith)

    Well, chezzone, I have considered that, but all my experience is with static HTML coding and I already had about 40 pages on my HTML site before I decided to add the WooCommerce store. I’m sure WordPress isn’t as limiting as it initially looks, but for me to make the switch and try to get WP to do all the things I am currently doing with HTML would be a steep (and possible expensive) learning curve. I’ll do whatever I have to do, but I prefer to take the easiest path.

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