Opencart vs. Wordpress/Woo

[moon-boots]

There are two issues facing me today. One is that my two e-commerce stores need updating after some 4 years, but I am seriously considering switching from Opencart to Wordpress/Woo.

Opencart is a nightmare to work with at the best of times. Whenever I try to edit the footer of my current sites for instance nothing changes, the customisation of pages is sloppy and although the site works fine for perhaps the first 6 months, anytime after that it just slowly falls apart.

Wordpress however features incredible customisation, is easy to edit the code but it lacks the backend functionality that Opencart is good at.

Does anyone know the downsides of changing to Wordpress/Woo in respect to SEO?

[Roman-Delcarmen]

Well I will say that Wordfence is just a minimal requirement on the other hands Sucuri offers a good level of security. So I think Wordpress+Sucuri  will give you a good mix.

[moon-boots]

Thank you for the response. I use Wordfence on my Wordpress sites and also use Sucuri, is this not sufficient security?

I also have no interest in hosted platforms such as Shopify. I like to control my own hosting, security, etc.

[Roman-Delcarmen]

I have experience working with both as you mentioned Opencart is a nightmare and you are right (this is just my personal opinion) Wordpress offers a better customization level for non-tech people but create you a big hole at the security level. I mean if you have a small store (less than 1000 per month) is not a big deal but more than that I will strongly suggest you move to Shopify is a good mix of the flexibility of WordPress with a strong core