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Six to sixteen weeks for typical engagements, with a four-phase shape: discovery, scoping, build and cutover, tuning. The variables are catalogue size, integration count, URL preservation, and editorial team readiness, not framework choice.

The Shopify Plus vs WooCommerce headless decision in 2026 is no longer a binary "platform vs custom" trade-off. Both can run headless, both integrate AI, both ship at the edge. The real axes are control, total cost over five years, and exit strategy. This article walks the matrix with confirmed platform facts.

Incremental Static Regeneration and Server-Side Rendering are not interchangeable. ISR wins when content changes on a predictable cadence and traffic is high. SSR wins when the page is personalised or session-driven. The choice is per-route, not per-stack.

In a headless WordPress build, the sitemap and the canonical URL must be rendered by the front end, not the WordPress origin. This is the specific pattern that prevents two sitemaps and two canonical URLs from competing.