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Store setup — for the owner

Stand up the WooCommerce store

This /shop folder is where your online store lives, separate from the main site. It runs on WordPress with the free WooCommerce plugin. Follow these once and you're selling.

Before you start, create a MySQL database in your hosting control panel (look for "MySQL Databases"). Write down its name, username, and password — WordPress asks for them in step 2.
1

Install WordPress

The easy way — this downloads WordPress from the official source and unpacks it right here, no FTP needed:

Run the one-click installer →

If your host blocks that, download wordpress.org/latest.zip, unzip it, and upload the contents of the wordpress folder into this /shop directory yourself.

2

Run the WordPress setup

Open the wizard, enter the database details from above, and create your admin login:

Open WordPress setup →

This link works once step 1 has finished.

3

Add WooCommerce

In the WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins → Add New, search WooCommerce, install and activate it. Its setup wizard walks you through payments, shipping, and tax.

4

Import the starter catalog

We've bundled 28 products across all five categories so you don't start from an empty store. In WordPress:

  • Go to Products → Import
  • Choose the file shop/products/woocommerce-products.csv
  • Click through — WooCommerce maps the columns for you — and run the import

Every product is a placeholder: edit prices, descriptions, and add photos to match what you actually stock. Details are in products/README.txt.

5

Match the look

Set your store logo to assets/logo.png (one level up) and your brand colors to navy #00245C and grey #696969 so the store matches the main site. A clean theme like Storefront or Twenty Twenty-Four works well.

The link is already wired up. The "Shop" link in the main site's menu points here to /shop/. Until WordPress is installed, visitors see a tidy "store coming soon" page; the moment WordPress is live, it takes over automatically.
Two housekeeping notes. Turn on HTTPS for the whole domain before taking orders. And once WordPress is installed, the one-click installer deletes itself — if you ever see install-wordpress.php still sitting here afterward, delete it.

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