How to: Turn your WordPress blog to an online shop

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 39 Comments -

Ever 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?
eShop, plugin for eCommerce WordPress

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, plugin for eCommerce WordPress

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.

Comments (39) - Leave yours

  8. James Mann said:

    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

  10. Barroc said:

    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 :D

  12. Maxi said:

    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.

  14. juliet said:

    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

  16. Matt D. said:

    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.

  17. Tadd said:

    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!

  21. Graeme said:

    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

  23. Tracey said:

    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.

  24. finance review said:

    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

  25. Women's Fragrances said:

    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

  26. babycare said:

    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.

  28. anne smith said:

    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.

  31. jusuf said:

    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….

  36. Joao said:

    @ jusuf
    The plugin doesn’t handle the payments itself, it uses third party billing processors such as Paypal to handle the payments, so you don’t need to be worried about security, since the security is granted by the third party payment processor.

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