Hi,
This is Ecwid support team. Thank you for your feedback!
Let me address your concerns:
This is a javascript application that runs in the client’s browser. The e-commerce store’s HTML is created in the client’s browser, not by WordPress, selecting products and navigating between products is done in the client’s browser, independent of WordPress, the current URL and current title is updated in the client’s browser, not by WordPress. This is only a “WordPress plugin” in the sense that WordPress adds the e-commerce store’s javascript to the content area of one page – everything else happens in the client’s browser.
Ecwid stores are indeed hosted on Ecwid servers, not on WordPress. However, Ecwid store added to WordPress is still a part of a WordPress site. When you add Ecwid to a WordPress site, the store embeds into the page source code and the store elements become a part of DOM. You can find store elements, SEO tags, JSON and Microdata markup in the page source code, and Google bots are able to find and crawl such pages.
We use different technologies including JavaScript in order to improve page surfing and speed up the checkout. Clients don’t have to wait for the page to load each time they navigate between store pages. Also, we recently released new features that improved the load speed of Ecwid stores and Google PageSpeed Insights scores.
All product data is located on another website, not in your WordPress database.
We use cloud-based solution because it has several advantages:
- Ecwid is independent of site hosting. We use reliable and secure servers to store Ecwid data and CDN that provides fast delivery of content to clients. In case of any security breaches on your WordPress site, the store data will be intact.
- We regularly scan Ecwid for breaches and protect this information with software updates and backups of your stores’ information.
- Ecwid plugin is light and doesn’t take much space on your hosting account. So you won’t need to pay for expensive hosting additionally in case you have a lot of products since all data are stored on the Ecwid side.
If you’re hoping to use an SEO plugin with this, or for any plugin or theme to get any information from this plugin’s products, forget it.
You can get store data for developing custom integrations via Ecwid API. Here’s the link to our API documentation: https://api-docs.ecwid.com/reference/overview.
Regarding SEO, Ecwid is compatible with various WordPress SEO plugins, and it has its own features that automatically add SEO tags to the store pages’ source code. If you would like to change SEO data for your products and categories, you can do it in the Ecwid admin account.
May I ask if there is any plugin/theme that you use and that is incompatible with Ecwid? Please, let me know what issue you faced and we’ll check how it can be fixed. Thank you!
Looking forward to hearing from you!
