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WordPress 2.9 E-Commerce

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WordPress 2.9 E-Commerce

Overview of this book

WordPress is easily one of the hottest platforms for building blogs and general web sites. With the addition of the WP e-Commerce plug-in, it's also a competent platform for easily creating and running an online store, capable of selling physical items as well as services and digital downloads. WordPress with e-Commerce offers every feature that a seller and a customer may need. You can build an online store that makes it easier for the customers to find and buy products.WordPress 2.9 e-Commerce focuses on the integration of WordPress with the WordPress e-Commerce plug-in, covering all aspects of building and developing an online store from scratch.This book provides a simple, step-by-step approach to developing an effective online store. It guides you through your initial planning and first steps, plug-in installation and configuration, building your catalog of products to sell, accepting payments for your orders, and dealing with taxes and shipping. You will also learn how to promote and market your new store, handle customer accounts and staff roles, and deal with essential store security.As you work through each chapter, your online store will grow in scope and functionality. By the time you finish this book, you will have a complete and working store, ready to release your products to the world.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
WordPress 2.9 -Commerce
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with WordPress and e-Commerce
2
Getting Ready to Sell
3
Configure Your e-Commerce Settings
4
Managing Your Product Catalog
5
User Accounts: Customers and Staff
6
Checkout and Payment Setup
7
Shipping, Taxes, and Processing Orders
Setting Up a WAMP Testing Platform
Index

YAK (Yet Another Kart)


More information: http://bit.ly/wp-yak

Like WP e-Commerce, YAK (Yet Another Kart) is a full-featured plugin for WordPress. Unlike WP e-Commerce, YAK is completely opensource and does not have any paid upgrades. Certain features lacking in the free version of WP e-Commerce, such as Product Search, come by default in YAK.

The plugin is mainly the work of a single developer, and although YAK is completely free, the developer offers a detailed handbook for sale on his site (http://bit.ly/yak-handbook).

What YAK offers

The YAK plugin offers features comparable to, though fewer than, those of WP e-Commerce. Philosophically, the main difference between YAK and WP e-Commerce is that YAK associates all products with posts or pages within WordPress. Instead of creating products directly in the WordPress Dashboard, you just write a new post or page with the product details, adding the price and "buy now" button using text tags. One benefit of this method is that customers can use...