Setting up WooCommerce and Amazon S3 (AWS) for Digital Products

Posted in WordPress on July 22, 2022 by

Anthony Hortin

(Updated: August 15, 2023)

If you're selling, or even giving away, digital products on your WooCommerce store (e.g. Audio/Video files, Zip files, eBooks, PDF's etc…), it's a great idea to offload those resources onto a third party, like Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service), which is part of AWS (Amazon Web Services).

Offloading your products to a service like S3 means that your hosting disk space and bandwidth wont be impacted when customers purchase and download your products. If your products are attracting a large number of downloads, or if your products are quite large in size, this can be a huge saving in terms of hosting costs. Using a service like Amazon S3 isn't free, but it will be cheaper than paying for extra disk space and/or bandwidth from your hosting provider.

Building a Membership Site with WooCommerce Memberships

Posted in Tutorials, WordPress on October 6, 2015 by

Anthony Hortin

If you've ever tried to build a membership site with WordPress, you're probably already aware of some of the difficulties that this can entail. Thankfully though, there's a new choice on the market and it makes creating membership sites considerably easier. It's called WooCommerce Memberships and it's from the good folk over at WooThemes.

Review: WooCommerce eCommerce WordPress plugin

Posted in WordPress on May 7, 2012 by

Anthony Hortin

(Updated: December 22, 2012)

ECommerce websites are a huge business and they're only getting bigger. According to the US Commerce Department, eCommerce sales within the US alone totalled $194.3 billion in 2011. Whoa! This figure is only going to increase as more and more people see the benefits of buying & selling online.