Wordpress e-Commerce

• Author: outcrazy
• Filed under: Blogging, The Net
• Date: Apr 26,2008

A few days ago, i found a site that prepared a Wordpress e-Commerce plugin from my forum. Instinct.co.zn prepared e-Commerce plugin for online store. I quote a sentence from it site.

WP e-Commerce now powers over 55,000 websites worldwide!!

WP e-Commerce is a Web 2.0 application designed with usability, aesthetics, and presentation in
mind. Perfect for:

» Digital Downloads!
» Bands & Record Labels
» Clothing Companies
» Crafters & Artists
» Books, DVDs & MP3 files
» Members Only / Subscription sitesz
» Stores with over 10,000 + products

This plugin name is WP-e-Commerce 3.6 RC2 and WP-e-Commerce 3.6 RC2 and WP e-Commerce 3.5.1 and very stable & works with Wordpress 2.5.
Wow the first i saw wordpress e-Commerce is using WP theme Market, but now, we can using this plugin to build an e-Commerce. You can see some examples site using Wordpress and this plugin:

• www.seekanddestroyclothing.com
• www.orangutan-appeal.org.uk
• www.tabletalk.com
• www.imagecubes.com
• www.koloroo.com
• Eden Ripley
• Crafty Designs

I must try using these plugin, because wordpress is very user friendly.  You can see what features recently added on this plugin.

• New - Facebook Integration
• New - Google Checkout Integration
• New - Shipwire Integration
• New - Search Engine Friendly URLs / Permalinks
• Coupons in Marketing options under shop options
• Members Only Module
• Customizable pagination for product listing
• Unlimited products & categories
• AJAX powered Sliding Shoping Cart
• Shop front highlighting for newly added products
• AJAX powered Web 2.0 DropShop - additional gold module
• Grid View - additional gold module
• Fancy AJAX Alerts on Add to Cart
• Purchase history for logged in users
• New and improved Audio Player Module for selling MP3 files
• Chinese Language file
• Share this / Digg Product social networking promo tools
• Downloadable CSV files
• Detailed Purchase Log & Filters
• Configurable Tax settings including USA & Canada
• PayPal IPN
• URL linking to products and images
• RSS product feed widget
• Google Cart

You can using Wordpress e-Commerce widget to personalize your WordPress site without knowing HTML.

• AJAX Shopping Cart Widget
• Product Categories & Brands Widget
• Donations Widget
• Product Specials Widget
• Latest Products Widget
• Price Range Widget
• Product Tag Widgets

If you are interested with this plugin and maybe you want to build an online store, you can use this plugin.

So, you can minimize your money to buy shopping cart software or anything.

You can readme document for more instructions to install this plugin and e-Commerce Lite visual guides on Flickr.