Advice; Gutenberg/Woo -> CP/CC

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For reasons, working on cloning commercial site (think hosted ecommerce similar to Shopify) for the purpose of going to WP/Woo.

Background
Been using Authorize, PayPal, and Shipstation - happy enough. Willing to do someone else for these if necessary. Note; vast majority is via USPS in 4 size boxes.

So for testing purposes, step 1 was a blog-site with a test product using Woo. Working well, slow, likely shared hosting issue - money cures. Sub-step; made functional theme using TwentyTentyFour. Looks good enough.

Haven’t bothered copying over about, terms, warranty, shipping and returns pages yet. Been confirming this will work. Recently learned of CP/CC.

Questions:

  1. So what are steps for using CP/CC, instead? Inquired of existing shared host provider (present WP/Woo) and dedicated managed server is available.

Yes, offer cPanel. Helpful thus far (been with them several decades for parking domains and such, expect they’ll continue to be helpful). Also suspect/expect them to be willing to help setting up up test site using CP/CC also. Have a domain I can use to try this.

  1. What about existing blog posts? Many dozens. Using TOC plug-in. Will I need a replacement, or will this plug-in continue working? Did these using Gutenberg, so learning to use the old way of blogging is on my agenda. But don’t want to lose existing work. Did learn to like being able to reorganize paragraphs and images using up/down arrows so if that’s a block function I’ll miss it.

  2. Next, what about image descriptions and captions? Suck to lose those. Using HappyFiles for this . . . will this plug-in work with CP?

  3. No clue how to replicate existing simple theme and don’t really want to buy ThemeForest type product. Prefer simple/lightweight. Guides?

Have a javascript carousel on home page, and javascript elevator within the product page, but otherwise, words and photos.

Not interested in Bricks, Elementor, or similar. Prefer to keep simple, roll my own (get/pay for help if necessary), then do the 99 other things on the list.

Absolutely not into changing site look often. Been doing this since 1997 and site still looks similar (and works well enough).

Hot button’s independence. Don’t mind paying, but prefer roll-my-own where practical so if I want to work on the site at 3AM, I can.

Many thanks in advance.

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I don’t use all those things, so can’t address every query. I’m sure others will join in and address them. But there are things I can comment on.

So far as your existing posts are concerned, you will be fine. We use the tried-and-trusted TinyMCE.

I don’t know which TOC plugin you’re using, but if that one doesn’t work with CP, there are plenty of others. I myself have written one for CP and it’s in the CP directory.

I don’t know whether HappyFiles will work with CP, but I’m not sure whether you’ll need it. Version 2.2 of CP includes significant improvements to media management, including the ability to upload files direct to a media categories folder. I’d suggest you try CP’s capabilities out first and see whether they will work for you. (There’s also more to come when we release v2.3.) You can certainly edit descriptions and captions (and you should find that easier now, especially on the List View).

We have updated a LOT of JavaScript files in the CP core code, but we haven’t deleted any of the old files, so you should be fine with your JavaScript if the plugins you are using enqueue things properly.

The 2024 theme won’t work in CP as it’s a block-based theme. Others can make recommendations for an e-Commerce site theme.