Is wordpress a good idea to create a personal font shop?

Vasil Stanev
Vasil Stanev Posts: 793
in Type Business
Hello all,
I'm new to web design and I plan to set up shop parallel with MyFonts 'cause I'm highly dissatisfied with them taking the lion's share of my sales (and probably also hiding some of the sales so they can pocket them, but that's another story).
I'm currently beginning to search for options to do the store on wordpress before I decide whetehr I should or should not pay a professional to do the job. It's going to have a blog so I can write granular type-related topics to get SEO traction after several months, a shop where clients can pay with a card, paypal, revolut, Wise etc., an About+contacts section, and also I'm gonna throw my graphic design portfolio there because every other designer I talk to says Behance is pretty much become unfashionable.
Does this sound like a good plan? Suggestions welcome.

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  • James Puckett
    James Puckett Posts: 2,047
    edited 2:50AM
    I recommend not using Wordpress. Maybe things have changed since the last time I tried but I don’t think there’s a Wordpress store plugin suited for font licensing. Wordpress sites also depend on third-party plugins and themes that constantly need updating because they’re buggy. Wordpress is really a blogging engine that has been growing and growing for ages, and people do lots with it now, but it was never meant for type licensing. Fontdue is very popular for a reason—it was designed to be a powerful font licensing platform from the beginning.

    Also, don’t put your design portfolio and your shop on the same page. Make best looking and most functional version of each and make your best types part of your design portfolio.

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