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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

WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart


More information: http://bit.ly/wpspsc

Despite the deceptively long name, WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart (WPSPSC) is exactly what it claims to be: a simple shopping cart integration for WordPress that allows customers to purchase items using PayPal. It actually takes longer to describe how to use it than it takes to learn and master it. This plugin is free.

For the record, WPSPSC does have a bigger brother called WP e-Store (http://bit.ly/e-store) that allows for the sale of both physical goods and digital downloads. The current price is a very reasonable $29.95.

What WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart offers

Don't expect a long feature list here—the key word is simplicity. WPSPSC follows the philosophy of "do one thing and do it well". It does not provide support for the sale of digital downloads. It does not generate order reports, automatically e-mail customers after a sale (it relies on PayPal to do that), or even provide an inventory catalog...