Wordpress is a blog, right? - Right!

Wordpress is designed for people to post new pieces of prose and pictures regularly, right?  -  Right!

Wordpress is not designed to be an e-commerce solution, right? - Right!

Wordpress can’t really be used as an e-commerce solution, right? - Wrong!

It seems that Wordpress can be customized into just about any kind of web site. The customization potential is enormous - it seems like it was designed to be taken and messed about with. Let’s take a look at what an e-commerce site needs:

1. A database to store the stock for sale. In our case this would be downloadable PDF courses.
2. A way to retrieve those database entries together with their illustrations. In our case this would be example pages.
3. An easily expandable menu system.
4. A search facility.
5. A shopping cart and payment system.
6. To be Search engine friendly with the ability to add metatags to pages.
7. To be able to easily facilitate the addition of new database pages and link to static pages.

Wordpress offers:

1. A database.
2. A way to retrieve those database entries together with their illustrations.
3. A flexible, expandable customizable menu/navigation system.
4. A search facility.
5. The availability of an e-commerce plugin.
6. Search engine friendliness - you won’t believe how fast a new blog post gets indexed by Google.
7. An easy way to facilitate the addition of new database pages and link to static pages.
8. Open source software with built-in permission to be modified.
9. Many other possibilities that I haven’t yet even discovered.

I found a wordpress demo theme for a clothing shop which uses an e-commerce plugin (recommended by one of those helpful Business Warriors), which with a bit of imagination could serve as a very good basis for Fundisi.

This is definitely the way to go. Notify the reverse-engineering department and let’s see how this thing works…