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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 9. Deploy, Secure, and Maintain Your Shop

At last, the time has come to officially launch your e-Commerce site. During this process, we will transfer our files from the testing platform to a production server, thereby potentially putting our products within reach of millions of customers. It's a big event, but we want to make sure that we do it right! There are numerous pitfalls that can occur along the way, so we want to make sure that we minimize those pitfalls.

Getting our site officially online opens another can of worms regarding site security. Dealing with potential security issues naturally reminds us of the need for data backups. We have a lot to cover, so let's get started.

This chapter covers:

  • Getting ready to deploy

  • Uploading your shop

  • Man the hatches—essential site security

  • Backups—preparing for disasters