Wordpress vs Custom script for a eCommerce site

Gogol said:

More plugins = More codebase = More attack vector (or, probability of vulnerable code).

It seems from OP's reply that he has good knowledge when it comes to web development. So, I would advice against using WP. Using WP for e-commerce is a hack. WP is meant to be a blog engine, no matter what the woo commerce lovers say lol.

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What do you recommend for ecommerce?

Thanks for the feedback guys, y'all are awesome, keep the good work!

nakamura said:

What do you recommend for ecommerce?

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Well it depends on a few things. To begin with, budget. If it's a low budget one, you could go with a third party, hosted platform like Shopify.

For higher budgets you have opencart, xcart, prestashop and Magento. Those are awesome for scalability too.

If you have a really high budget, build a custom one using yii/laravel or even flask (this would be the most costly option imo).These you can extend and modify to whatever you like. Also, there's no unnecessary code/db table etc to deal with.

Gogol said:

Not sure about snipcart, but yeah; it makes total sense what you have mentioned. I am a fan of api based websites as well. This is more suited to the "private" section of the site, where you have to login. Using it in the public end of the site could seriously affect seo, afaik. Correct me if I am wrong.

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I work as a mobile dev and honestly, web services are one of the best things ever imo

look at nomadlist or remoteok for example, simple php scripts with data stored on a sqlite file, it doesnt get millions of visits but its almost never offline with thousands of request, and whats best of all, it makes a lot of money for the admin

Depends on who creates the system using which standards. Go with a premade solution, WordPress may have vulnerabilities, but most of them have been discovered and patched, and future ones will as well. Unless your developer(s) have at least half a decade of experience, I will no go with a custom-made solution. A custom made solution will introduce bugs and vulnerabilities that have already been discovered/fixed by other platforms. There are other e-commerce systems available, have a look at them.

UserNumber3000 said:

look at nomadlist or remoteok for example, simple php scripts with data stored on a sqlite file, it doesnt get millions of visits but its almost never offline with thousands of request, and whats best of all, it makes a lot of money for the admin

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Hmm perhaps because the queries are simple, and the majority are non transactional. When you have lot's of read/write queries, sqllite wouldn't allow you to scale up afaik.

This subject is pretty controversial nevertheless. I don't want to get flamed by the sqllite lovers so I would refrain from going further lol.

rafark said:

Depends on who creates the system using which standards. Go with a premade solution, WordPress may have vulnerabilities, but most of them have been discovered and patched, and future ones will as well. Unless your developer(s) have at least half a decade of experience, I will no go with a custom-made solution. A custom made solution will introduce bugs and vulnerabilities that have already been discovered/fixed by other platforms. There are other e-commerce systems available, have a look at them.

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That is a practical answer. You are correct. By the way, even magento has a good community (not comparable with Woocommerce/WP though). So does opencart and so on.

It all boils down to money. If you have a good team, you will have a good system.

Edit: Offtopic, yes I am gogol there too, in that sof thread.