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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By : John Horton
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store! This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring a Weever App


In this recipe we will actually make an app out of your website content and content you might have on social media sites.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes you have setup Weever Apps. This was covered in the recipe, Installing Weever Apps. It also assumes you have some content published and ready to use in your Joomla! catalogue. In particular we make use of an article category and a Contact Us page.

How to do it...

The benefits of Weever as mentioned before is how easy it is to configure and change. So here is how to do it.

  1. From the Joomla! control panel navigate to Components | Weever Mobile App.

  2. Here, the first thing we can do is add content from our articles. We can add just an article, just a category, or a combination. We will add a category of content by clicking on the Category button. Now, we can see the following screenshot:

  3. Click on the (Select a Category) dropdown and choose your category of articles that you want to be in your app. Click on Add to App.

  4. Next...