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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By : John Horton
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store! This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up Piwik for VirtueMart


Here we will set up the advanced e-commerce features. This will allow us to look at data like cart contents and abandonment, revenue tracking, sales, and perhaps the most interesting, conversion rate.

Getting ready

The download for the required plugin can be obtained from http://extensions.virtuemart.net/statistics/piwik-for-virtuemart2-detail. Put the zip file on your desktop and read on. The rather easily forgettable filename is plgvm_istraxx_vmpiwik_vm2.0.12_1.0.zip with the numbers on the end varying if the version has changed since this was written.

How to do it...

Now we have the necessary file on our desktop, so let's set them up in VirtueMart as shown in the following steps:

  1. Log in to your Joomla! control panel and select Extensions | Extension Manager.

  2. In the Upload Package File area click on Browse.

  3. Choose the plgvm_istraxx_vmpiwik_vm2.0.12_1.0.zip file from your desktop and then click on Upload and install.

  4. Now navigate to Extensions | Plug-in Manager from...