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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

'Share This' plugin


Here is another quick and easy setting that you can enable to potentially drive new traffic to your store. The Share This plugin is popular amongst writers of general WordPress blog posts. It enables readers to save a post they like to numerous popular social bookmarking/networking sites like Delicious, StumbleUpon, Digg, and Facebook.

When enabled, the Share This plugin allows your customers to help spread the word about your products for you. To enable it, just set the option for Show Share This (Social Bookmarks) to Yes, as shown in the following screenshot:

On each individual product page, you will then see a Share This Product button just below the item price. Clicking the button expands the available sharing options. The following screenshot shows the Share This Product button:

Switching to the E-mail tab allows you (or a customer) to e-mail a direct link to that product to a friend.