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WordPress WooCommerce Custom Marketplace

A custom, scalable WordPress and WooCommerce marketplace plugin for managing opportunities, controlled access, secure purchasing, and marketplace workflows.

by Custom Marketplace Engineering · github.com/shahbax/wordpress-woocommerce-custom-marketplace · website

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Install

No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:

wp plugin install https://github.com/shahbax/wordpress-woocommerce-custom-marketplace/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

Readme

WordPress WooCommerce Custom Marketplace

A custom WordPress plugin foundation for building a B2B opportunity/lead marketplace with WooCommerce as the commerce layer.

Project status

Version: 0.1.0
Status: Development foundation / Milestone 1

This repository is intentionally structured as a maintainable custom plugin rather than a collection of procedural snippets.

Core concept

The plugin introduces an Opportunity domain. Administrators can publish opportunities containing public marketplace information and protected customer information. Contractors will eventually purchase access through WooCommerce.

The plugin owns:

  • Opportunity lifecycle
  • Availability rules
  • Access authorization
  • Protected customer information
  • Allocation limits
  • Marketplace-specific data

WooCommerce is intended to own:

  • Cart
  • Checkout
  • Payment
  • Orders
  • Taxes
  • Refunds

Current milestone

  • Custom database table
  • Admin opportunity creation
  • Contractor role/capabilities
  • Public REST listing endpoint
  • Basic audit event foundation
  • WooCommerce integration boundary
  • Secure WordPress hooks and input handling
  • Database indexes for common marketplace queries

Installation

  1. Install WordPress 6.5+.
  2. Install and activate WooCommerce.
  3. Upload the plugin folder to wp-content/plugins/.
  4. Activate WordPress WooCommerce Custom Marketplace.
  5. Open Marketplace in the WordPress admin.

Requirements

  • WordPress 6.5+
  • PHP 8.3+
  • WooCommerce 9.x or compatible current release
  • MySQL 8+ or MariaDB compatible with WordPress

Architecture

src/
├── Admin/
├── Database/
├── Integrations/
│   └── WooCommerce/
├── Logging/
├── REST/
└── Roles/

The architecture is designed so marketplace logic can be expanded into domain services without coupling business rules to WooCommerce templates.

Security

The project uses:

  • Capability checks
  • Nonces
  • Sanitization
  • Escaping
  • Prepared SQL queries
  • Restricted customer data fields
  • WordPress APIs

Before production use, the purchase allocation workflow must be completed with atomic concurrency control and comprehensive automated tests.

Roadmap

0.2.0

  • Opportunity edit/delete/archive
  • Front-end opportunity directory
  • Contractor dashboard
  • WooCommerce product mapping
  • Purchase authorization
  • Protected customer reveal

0.3.0

  • Atomic allocation service
  • Duplicate purchase prevention
  • Sold-out transitions
  • Refund handling
  • Purchase records
  • Audit persistence

0.4.0

  • Advanced filters
  • Pagination
  • Admin reporting
  • CSV export
  • Caching layer
  • Automated tests

1.0.0

  • REST API expansion
  • Webhooks
  • Subscription/credit architecture
  • AI opportunity scoring extension points
  • CRM integration interfaces

Git workflow

git init
git add .
git commit -m "feat: initialize custom WooCommerce marketplace plugin"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/wordpress-woocommerce-custom-plugin.git
git push -u origin main

License

GPL-2.0-or-later

Read the full README on GitHub →