Here’s a quick video tutorial showing you how to add E-Commerce capabilities to your WordPress blog through a free plugin: WP E-Commerce. The basic solution is very easy and allows you to add an almost unlimited amount of products and connects you with the most popular payment gateways.
In this video, Adam Purcell from Hungry Dog Media demonstrates how easy the plugin setup is and does it in under 5 minutes.
Note: The video is best viewed in full screen mode
Additional Features of the plugin include:
Payment Options
Integrates with Google Checkout, Paypal, Payment Express, and many other trusted payment processors.
100% Customizable
Use your own HTML & CSS and have complete control over the look and feel of your online store.
Search Engine Friendly
Awesome tools are integrated to improve your online product search rankings.
Head over to Getshopped.org to learn more about this awesome plugin or you can download it here: WP E-Commerce
Discussion: I’m currently testing all the capabilities of the plugin. So far so good. If you’ve had any experience using the WP-E-Commerce plugin, please leave us a comment to let us know what you think about it.
This is interesting. Now I know what to do if I want to open a shop on my site.
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Hey Ed,
Definitely! Back in the day it was 100 times more difficult and very costly to integrate e-commerce into a website. Now its free.
I build my wordpress in less then a minute through GoDaddy.
Finally there is E-commerce from wordpress to replace that messy Oscommerce.
Absolutely fantastic.
I love the evolution of eCommerce over the years. The older systems are such a pain to deal with or you’d have to spend a lot to get a robust system.
For many people, like bloggers and small businesses, they don’t need this gigantic backend and don’t have the time to fiddle with tons of coding. It’s great to see systems like this.
Going to keep this in mind for my future projects.
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Hey Murlu,
E-commerce technology really has come a long way. I remember back in the day there were many occasions I considered setting up my own sites that facilitated online purchases, only to be intimidated by the monster and ultimately gave up. Fortunately, the times are changing; fast!
This should be good. Building an ecommerce site is a headache, it looks like WordPress will make it much easier now.
Thanks for the video. I’ve only ever monetized my sites through affiliate links but eCommerce is something that is really starting to appeal to me. I’m definitely going to do some more investigation about this plugin and eCommerce in general.
This is a great plugin. I can now easily make a ecommerce site through wordpress. Thanks for sharing this great plugin and video.
I’m definitely going to do some more investigation about this plug in and e Commerce in general.
Thanks for the video. Systems such as WP Ecommerce are so powerful they amaze me. Ive only been using WordPress for about 6 months but in that time I’ve made use of so many plugins which allow me to do things I could never have done before.