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.
My name is Jean-Baptiste Jung and I'm the man behind Cats Who Code. I started to use the Internet back in 1998 and started to create websites three years laters in 2001.
28 Comments
oke
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.
Cool post. I didn’t know that there were Wordpress plugin out there that helped in the creation of online shops. I played around with eShop and see it’s potential for creating quick shops, and I think I’ll use it for that in the future. But for bigger projects adapting the code to fit my needs seems like it would be too much of a hassle.
I’ve used WP-eCommerce in the past and it’s pretty powerful with a slew of nice features. I’ve yet to use this eShop yet. I’ll have to try it out.
Thanks!
I’ve been looking for any easy way to offer e-commerce to potential customers, this may be just what i’m looking for.
Thanks for the heads up
great suggestion! is it available for blogspot too?
Nice post, well explaining about blog contents writing. Thanks for sharing and keep posting more new info. A blog turning into online shop to promote online selling. That’s a wonderful concept. I shall use this concept for selling my ebook:
“The Novice’s Guide to Starting a Profitable Internet Business”
Thanks.
That is certainly a really awesome tutorial. I’ve always wanted make an online shop for some of my services and products i make at home but could not afford to hire anyone to do it and some of the articles on the web are very complicated. i guess I can work with this article. thanks for the information.Cheers
When it comes to wordpress, everything is possible. Joomla installation using wordpress does everything which we need in an online shopping website. All the necessary plugins are available on the website. Get them, try them, they are simply awesome
this wordpress has started becoming more than just a writing platform ,, this concept is great i didnt know that here were these features involved in it.
Wordpress is a gem of all the other platforms of designing a blog. All the major plugins required to design a shopping or any other business blog are available with wordpress.
For me, Wordpress is such of great help in terms of designing my blogs. All plug-ins I need for my blog are available on Wordpress. Everything is possible with Wordpress.
really informative posti must say..wordpresss is heaven for bloggers! what about blogger?
how secure is that??
i mean people will shop by entering their credit card info, and can hackers easily reach those info by hacking that plugin?? or i dont know may be the creator of the plugin built that plugin to steal credit cards number so on…
i would like to use the plugin but im not sure how secure is that?, i dont want to be sued for any problem….
yes! eshop is a great plugin..
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