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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

eShop


More information: http://bit.ly/e-shop

Like YAK, eShop is another completely open-source plugin for WordPress. There are no paid upgrades available that increase functionality, though some sites sell WordPress themes designed specifically for eShop.

eShop is mainly the product of a single developer and is marketed as a plugin created with ease of use and accessibility in mind.

What eShop offers

eShop shares YAK's general philosophy of associating individual products with WordPress posts. Once again, the advantage of this method is that your products are easily searchable using the built-in WordPress search box.

Other general features of eShop include support for digital downloads, configurable e-mail templates, automatic e-mail delivery after item purchase, support for coupons and discounts, and integration with Google Base. There are several payment gateways that eShop supports, but the most mainstream amongst them are PayPal and Authorize.net. On the other hand, eShop supports a few...