RockyBestBuds — a WooCommerce store for a cannabis & tobacco brand

We built rockybestbuds.com — a WordPress and WooCommerce store for an American cannabis and tobacco brand, with category browsing and per-product pricing that varied by weight rather than by a fixed SKU. The domain is no longer running the store; that is covered below rather than left for you to discover.

Client

RockyBestBuds · US

Industry

Retail · Ecommerce

Team

1 developer · 1 designer

rockybestbuds.com

The brief

A branded store for a cannabis & tobacco range — easy to browse, with weight-based pricing per product.

Selling by weight breaks the assumption most ecommerce templates are built on. A normal product has a price. These products have a price per quantity band — the same item at an eighth, a quarter, a half — and a shopper choosing between those bands is making the actual purchasing decision on the product page itself. Model it as separate products and you get four listings of the same thing competing in search and in the customer's head. Model it as a flat price and you have not built the store the business needs.

The category structure had the same problem in a smaller form. Cannabis and tobacco are two ranges with different browsing habits attached, sold to overlapping customers, and they needed to be navigable separately without the catalogue feeling like two stores wearing one skin.

Underneath both was the constraint that applies to every store of this size: it had to be something the owner could run. A catalogue that needs a developer for a price change is a catalogue that goes stale within a season.

The build

A WordPress and WooCommerce build using variable products for the weight bands, so one item carries its quantity options underneath it and the customer picks on the page where they are already deciding. Prices attach to the variation rather than the product, which is the arrangement WooCommerce already understands — it keeps reporting, stock and search treating the item as one thing, and it keeps the catalogue maintainable by whoever inherits it.

Category browsing separated the cannabis and tobacco ranges while leaving both reachable from the same catalogue, and cart and checkout were the standard WooCommerce flow rather than something bespoke. That was a deliberate trade and the same one we make on nearly every store this size: a checkout is the one component where being unusual buys nothing and costs maintenance forever.

The part we owe you plainly. As of 12 September 2026 rockybestbuds.com no longer serves the store — the domain returns a parking page that bounces visitors to a lander. We did not take it down and we cannot put it back up: the site, the hosting and every credential were handed to the client at launch, which is the arrangement we recommend and the one that means a domain's later life is genuinely not ours to control. We would rather write that here than have you click, find a parking page, and reasonably conclude we made the project up. What it does mean is that this build is the least checkable thing on our US shelf, and it should carry less weight with you than Team Concept, which you can open right now.

Architecture