One more time….
This time completely from scratch (second attempt was based on a clone of the first step of my first attempt!)
- Spin up lightsail – this time with a pinned DNS to make that easier.
- SSL via bncert – http://www.mcgurl.co.uk/2023/09/19/setting-up-an-aws-lightsail-instance-for-the-first-time/
- head to wp-admin and log in.
- Install woocommerce and activate
- set up the store – general, tax shipping zones
- Install payment plugins – and activate
- Install WP All Import and activate
- On the original site, export:
- Customers
- Products
- Coupons
- Import:
- Products
- Coupons
- Customers
- Install WebToffee’s Import Export plugin and the WooCommerce add-on
- On the exported order file I have to change the date format in the CSV to read mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm – it tries to import the American format regardless of settings, it seems
- Add and activate all of the plugins I need – Elementor and Elementor Pro last
- Install the Hello Fresh theme
- Choice the Ecommerce Template kit
- Go to the pages list and delete the original Woocommerce pages (Elementor change the settings to point to its own versions)
- Quick edit each of the woocommerce pages so that the slug (URL) doesn’t have -2 at the end
- TAKE A LIGHTSAIL SNAPSHOT – every thing’s looking good, and I’ve come so far I’d hate to lose it at this point!
- Import Elementor Templates from current live site.
- Import Theme Builder layouts and delete default ones after
- Rebuild pages on the site.