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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

About the Reviewers

Dan is a 31-year-old self-taught entrepreneur living in Wellington, New Zealand. He enjoys working with WordPress and making games for obile honesis earliest "happy" childhood memories are of playing computer games on his Commodore 64/128. If not for the relaxed attitude of his parents around computers and games, then perhaps the WP e-Commerce pwould never have been made.

Dan and his team have been contributing to the WordPress ecosystem in one way or another for the best part of 6 years, mostly through their work developing WordPress plugins, most notably the world-famous WordPress e-Commerce which has had over 500,000 downloads.

His company Instinct has an office in Wellington where they focus on making WordPress plugins, and investors in Tokyo where the focus is on user-generated games for mobile phones.

Many people around the world have contributed to the WP e-Commerce but none have contributed as much as Thomas Howard and Jeffry Ghazally. These guys are the real stars behind the WordPress e-Commerce .

Taeke Reijenga is the co-founder of Level Level, a web design agency from Rotterdam, Netherlands. Level Level focuses on custom WordPress design and development for businesses. Amongst numerous WordPressbased projects are several e-commerce sites build with WP e-Commerce. One of them offers over 100,000 products.

In his spare time, Taeke loves to cook and enjoy a good glass of wine.

You can contact Taeke via http://level-level.com