How to: Turn your Wordpress blog to an online shop
Posted by jbj on Aug 16, 2008 in wordpress • 15 commentsEver wished to sell your ebooks, premium themes or your band’s mp3 directly on your Wordpress blog? Here’s eShop, a Wordpress plugin especially designed to turn your blog into an online store.
If you've always dreamed of selling your ebooks or your band's mp3s online, and already have a Wordpress blog, eShop is the plugin you need.
Here some of its features:
- 1 product per page
- Products entered via page editing
- Products can have multiple options
- Upload downloadable products
- Basic Statistics
- 3 methods for calculating shipping charges, plus various zone settings via Country or US State
- Parent pages can list random products, featured products, or sub product pages (just like categories with posts)
- Admin has access to an Order handling section
- Automatic emails on successful purchase, with option to send one from the admin order handling section.
- User configurable email templates.
- Configurable Out of Stock message.
- Basic Stock Control
- Google Base Data creation
Interesting, isn't it?
Installing eShop
Nothing complicated: you just need to download the plugin and upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory. Then, activate the eShop plugin and you'll have the joy of seeing a new tab appearing in your Wordpress admin.
In this tab, you will find everything needed to create and manage your products, access your stats, and define shipping price as well as geographical areas… Good news, the novice will be pleasantly surprised to find a About section, explaining how the plugin works.
eShop VS wp-eCommerce
Some months ago, I already talked about a similar plugin on Hack Wordpress , Wp-eCommerce.
Comparating Wp-eCommerce and eShop is not easy, as both are two high quality products, offering the same basic functions and some more interesting features (such as WP-eCommerce widgets).
If I must make a choice, I'll choose eShop that I find a bit more easier. But I can't say that eShop is better than wp-eCommerce.
No, try them both, test them, and make your own choice.
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Wordpress really is starting to become far more than just a bloging platform.
thanks friend
Informative Need some thing about WordPress Mobile , it is still a mystery for me.
I want to create a shop on my blog, and am looking at the various options. Thanxs for the heads up on eShop.
Missy.
Comparating Wp-eCommerce and eShop
Comparating?
@michael: English isn’t my mother tongue, and I’m not as fluent as I wish. Sorry for that mistake.
I use Build A Niche Store script on a few sites. I tried to use it in one of my blogs but wasn’t having much luck, until I found a template that had already been created for that purpose. I like it but it’s always nice to have other options.
thanks a bunch
nice tutotial…
thanks for posting.
it is my first time in my ear to hear that you can turn your wordpress blog into an online shopping blog. i will study more into this. thanks for the idea catswhocode
Its a great post and useful also because today everybody want to buy shopping goods online.
Thanks for such an helpful post.
Its a nice post about online shopping because Online shopping is fast becoming the most preferred mode of shopping whereby shoppers can reap the advantages of Internet shopping from the luxury of their homes.
That and connection to PayPal makes e-commerce / trialling new products completely cost-free and easy to do.
Online shopping is now a easy way of buying anything which they want by using the internet.so people want to know more about this.
Its a nice post about the same thing.
Thanks
wow what a nice post about coupons and retail information.
Its a very needed information because i need some coupons to buy somethings.