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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

Chapter 10. Alternative e-Commerce Plugins

The WP e-Commerce plugin is an impressive and ambitious piece of software. However, as with any ambitious software project, bugs will occasionally rear their ugly heads and certain releases will undoubtedly be better than others. Without a doubt, the developers at Instinct should be commended for their hard work in creating the WP e-Commerce plugin, and especially for releasing a version that is completely free.

That said, your humble author believes that we all benefit from choice and competition, and there's more than one e-commerce plugin in town that can integrate with WordPress. While we believe strongly in the long-term viability of the WP e-Commerce plugin, we think it is right to let budding shop owners know about competing software products.

There are several competing software programs worth mentioning. The majority of them are free (or at least offer a free version in addition to a paid upgrade), but a couple of them cost money. All of...