Book Image

WordPress 2.9 E-Commerce

Book Image

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

Shopp


More information: http://shopplugin.net

Shopp is one of only two e-Commerce options mentioned here that is commercial-only and unavailable in a free version. The current price for a single-site license is $55, whereas a developer's license is $299.

The plugin also has a multitude of additional payment gateways and shipping modules available for $25 per add-on. Shopp is undoubtedly nice, but is also potentially very expensive.

What Shopp offers

Even without the optional add-ons, Shopp offers a plethora of features. Shopp shares WP e-Commerce's core philosophy of building the product catalog in the WordPress Dashboard, though you can also use shortcodes to add specific products to individual posts or pages. Like every plugin mentioned so far, Shopp supports both physical products and digital downloads. The shopping cart is also AJAX-enabled, meaning that it features drag-and-drop shopping. Keep in mind that WP e-Commerce also offers AJAX support with their optional DropShop 2.0 module.

Shopp...