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Create an eCommerce Website with WordPress in under 5 minutes
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In this 5 minute tutorial Adam Purcell of Hungry Dog Media walks you through all of the steps needed to create your first eCommerce website with WordPress and the WP e-Commerce plugin
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June 8, 2009
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eCommerce, Hungry Dog Media, wp ecommerce (2)
June 8, 2009 at 2:01 am
Thank You, Adam Purcell for Your Great tutorial!
June 8, 2009 at 3:49 am
Wow, that was pretty amazing. Thanks for the tips. I will get my product page set up in the next five minutes!
June 8, 2009 at 4:09 am
I would really like to hear opinion/see a demo of the Shopp ecommerce plugin: http://bit.ly/4iRinw . Anyone has experiences they would like to share?
June 8, 2009 at 10:47 pm
No. Hey Jason… go take a hike
More appropriatly in this thread I’d like to take my hat off to Adam once again for making such a swell video tutorial.
June 10, 2009 at 11:13 pm
I’ve used Shopp for a client’s eCommerce site, and it’s amazing. Super easy to develop with, offers a library of template tags similar to WordPress’ tags. Really easy to build a theme around, and the admin backend couldn’t be easier to use.
July 5, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Seriously, is this better than say Magento? How does the backend and other functions compair? Is it only suitable for someone selling a few items?
June 8, 2009 at 4:46 am
Me too, I would like to see a demo video of the Shopp ecommerce.
June 8, 2009 at 6:32 am
I bought wp E-Commerce because it was a little cheaper than Shopp, I wish I would’ve bought Shopp now, because It has much simpler themeing than wp E-Commerce, although E-Commerce has a bit of a better backend in my opinion. It is a toss up, you can use wp E-Commerce for free to try before you buy, with Shopp your either all or nothing, so I can’t really vouch for Shopp since I didn’t want to buy something without trying first.
E-Commerce has a decent forum, while Shopp has great documentation. If I wouldn’t have already bought E-Commerce and had the desicion again I would go with Shopp. But they both work, and the one you can try it out, and works fine unless you want more than 1 picture, although you can hardcode images in the description so you don’t really have to buy it at all.
February 13, 2010 at 6:38 pm
I want to add multiple images. I am new to this plugin but not to php. Can you please guide me where to hard code for this?
June 8, 2009 at 8:34 am
Hi Jason, I bought it some months ago – but I found not flexible enough – and the support is not superior…
then I switched to the eshop – Plugin, you’ll find here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eshop/ It is way more flexible, it’s free – and the support by Rich is awesome. If want to see the plugin in action you can look here: http://changenow.de/motivationenergieshop – it’s a german shop, but you’ll see how the things work… 
Many greetings,
André
June 8, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Congratulations you beat the 5 minute deadline easily .Thank you .It would be really useful to have a slow mo version of this as some things occurred so quickly in this wonderful short version that I would need to go over it all aging Slowly ie the FTP thingy what was that all about and also you are using a Mac [I think or was it a windows machine pretending to be a MAc Do they do that now ??] so yes YOU can set up a site in % minutes but I still cant .A slow version of this great tutorial with clearer screen shots [ whne the mac zomes out in that clever way the detail is not clearly visible at least not on my 19" monitor] would be a realy good tool to use rather than a something to spectate at .><Not Lewis Hamilton but a driving instructor type approach perhaps .Have a great day Thanks
June 8, 2009 at 6:08 pm
right on, great execution.
there are of course lots of other considerations when dealing with security and non-paypal type payment channels, but for the avg user wanting to sell their services or products easily, I can’t see it being any simpler than this.
Oh, and something that should be mentioned. This whole demo features a FREE solution.
June 8, 2009 at 8:08 pm
OK – this is great – can it be done in WordPress.com? I am keen to research this in a bit more detail as I present paintings in my blog and it would be great to sell them through wordpress as well. I have some homework to do before I can do the “five minute setup’
June 8, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Not at the present time, I’m afraid – WordPress.com doesn’t feature the ability to use third-party plugins like the WP e-Commerce plugin featured in this video.
June 9, 2009 at 3:02 am
But you’d be advocating for us wouldn’t ya Michael
June 8, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Wow, that was FAST!
June 8, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Thanks for this Adam. Of course in a real life scenario there is a bit of finishing off to do on the site. WP-eCommerce has a whole range of configurations and extras that can be added. Best point for me is that it already has pre-built code for most of the popular payment gateways.
Another big plus is for music you can link back to iTunes store but still direct traffic through your own branded website.
Most users would set-up a few more plug-ins to add various functions. For example SEO and maybe navigation , bookmarking, contact form, Twitter and backup plugins. best way to think of a plugin is like a mini application. They are similar to those used on iPods or Facebook but can also be very simple widget style add ons.
Choosing the right plugin can take longer as many of them overlap and some are better than others. Still you can see how many downloads there and been and the big ones are into the 100,000+ level. Always useful to check the stats and user feedback.
WP-eCommerce for example is showing 169,109 downloads (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-e-commerce/)
On the design side very few users would keep the theme “as is”. At the very least most users would want to add logos, change colours and shades to match their own branding. Almost certainly you would want to change font sizes and styles. Changing this is done via CSS (stylesheet)which is like a design filter or interpreter that you view the underlying website data through.
Some themes have options to say – swap out the header panel or icon sets. You can also commission a designer to build a theme to match existing brand assetts. besides design skills they need to be able to work with CSS and PHP to build the theme set.
In the early days choosing a theme that is closest to your existing design is a way to save time and speed up the roll-out of a WordPress based site.
WordPress is now 6 years old now and there are still many website users who are surprised to find out that it can replace most of the content managed system around and its very simple to use.
June 8, 2009 at 10:49 pm
If you’re wondering where to download the WP e-Commerce Plugin you can get it from here (no sneaky bit.ly links from me).
- Download WP e-Commerce Plugin
June 8, 2009 at 11:17 pm
You’re hilarious. I admit that I have a dangerous curiosity with proprietary plugins and themes, even if I’m not apt to pay for them.
Yesterday at WordCamp Chicago, Matt mentioned the hope for similar plugin authors to synergize their future efforts. I couldn’t agree more. I also like to see competition between similar plugins because in both cases, the users usually win. The more A++ plugins and themes the WordPress community offers (and the more the poorly developed/poorly supports extensions go away), the stronger WordPress will be as a whole.
I also believe that once a serious need like ecommerce gets *perfectly* solved, the sooner WordPress can offer an out-of-the-box packaged product like BuddyPress for users to download (think something called “ShopPress”). Plugins, especially heavy-duty ones like WP-ecommerce, can raise the WordPress learning curve and dissuade adopters (which I admit, has its upsides, too).
June 8, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Wp-Ecommerce is by far the best e-commerce platform I have come across in all my years of web design. I have used a variety of platforms (Zen Cart, OS-Commerce, X-Cart, Magento, Cubecart, etc) and this plugin is far easier to use than any of them. It is completely customizable. The template system is incredibly easy to understand, and provided you have knowledge of css, you can make the store look however you want. Seriously, I can’t express how much I love this plugin. I no longer dread e-commerce. And the fact that you can control all content (store and non-store) very easily from one backend makes it appealing for my clients. In addition, the customer service from the company who created the plugin is phenomenal. They actually listen to your requests and respond in a timely manner.
June 8, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Fantastic ! ,
I was looking for this from a very longtime.I will implement this ASAP.
Thank You
Fazal
June 9, 2009 at 12:01 am
Great!, that’s very usefull, thanks
June 9, 2009 at 2:55 am
Please keep in mind this is a demonstration and not a tutorial. Ofcourse there are many other issues, plugins and customization that can be undertaken. But let me see you do all that in 5 minutes!
At the end of the day, I wanted to demonstrate how good the WP E-commerce plugin was. Not only is it easy to use, it is the solution for small shops to the large heavy duty hitters. I tried them all but don’t recommend anything else to my clients but this system.
June 9, 2009 at 3:01 am
Hey Jason. You don’t think I haven’t considered ShopPress myself… on multiple occasions.. for a number of years. I even bought the domain buddymoney.org which is a buddypress project in the planning stages
I’ve actually talked to Matt and Jane about this personally . The main thing to remember is that WordPress / Automattic are not in the business of selling e-Commerce (and if they choose to do this without WP e-Commerce then I’d like to think we still got that ball rolling). One of the potential problems is people selling illegal gears or content on wordpress.com which goes against all the morals behind WordPress. This is an issue that needs more thought. Not features. Not functionality. Not designers. Not coders. More thought – More time to mature in concept.
I think that the 3.7 version of WP e-Commerce is the best WordPress solution out. I’ve tested it against all the other Plugins and I’m satisfied with our progress.
We have had “hundreds” of people wanting WP e-Commerce Plugin integrated with WordPress.com and hopefully one day with the right amount of effort going in the right direction we’ll make it happen.
In the meantime. Long live the WP e-Commerce Plugin. And this video is just the start of our efforts in this space
June 9, 2009 at 8:19 am
very nice tips , i will use your tutorial if one day i think to sell product
June 9, 2009 at 10:19 am
Great presentation Adam. As a matter of fact we are looking for something like this. but not sure so far and need to compare with other similar plugins. But it seems that this is one is splendid innovation. thanks Adam.
June 9, 2009 at 11:23 am
Wow… It’s so Great !!
June 9, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Adam, that simply was mind blowing! Thanks so much for sharing that–my subscribers are going to love this too!
Cheers,
Bill Girimonti
June 9, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Thanks, great info.
June 9, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Fantastic. WordPress is more than a blogging software and I can see WordPress as a powerful CMS for small businesses.
June 9, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Brilliant!!!
Now all I need is a product to sell!
Zale
June 9, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Thanks Paul. Very well done video training, perfectly understandable. So very helpful for me and so very timely as well.
June 10, 2009 at 1:19 am
Good stuff for entrepreneurs. Thanks for sharing.
June 10, 2009 at 1:49 am
Wow, that is impressive. Very nice work. Thanks for the tutorial,definitely gives me motivation to finally get an ecommerce site up.
June 10, 2009 at 3:52 am
I am very tempted to use this,(I already played with it briefly)
and the only thing I am wondering is about security for my clients information. Do I just get an ssl cert from my hosting company and use the secure gateway of paypal or authorize.net and feel confident that the info is safe?
Thank you, Tonia
June 10, 2009 at 4:44 am
Great video tutorial Adam.
If someone wanted to sell tangible goods (t-shirts), would the e-Commerce plug-in be useful to them, or do you suggest just using a service such as Zazzle or Cafepress (<- *shudder*)?
Thanks,
Dan
June 11, 2009 at 1:49 am
Hi Dan. Yes WP e-Commerce handles Tangible goods.
WP e-Commerce supports the following internal shipping methods or calculators:
1) Flat Rate Shipping
2) Weight Rate Shipping
3) Table Rate Shipping
WP e-Commerce supports the following external Shipping calculators:
1) UPS
2) USPS
3) Fedex (in development)
June 10, 2009 at 10:46 am
thank you very nice
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June 10, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Thanks Adam for this great demo. I never thought ecommerce with wordpress possible, much less, easy before your demo. Great eye opener!
June 10, 2009 at 4:15 pm
My husband just received a proposal from a web designer to set a small eCommerce site using wordpress. He wanted 2.5K! Now that I’ve seen what is involved, no way Jose!
Thanks, you’ve saved us a bundle.
June 11, 2009 at 6:44 am
Yeh the cost of an e-commerce site should be a lot less than that using the above combination. Hey, I’ll do it for less than half that!
June 15, 2009 at 4:55 am
That’s expensive, but i also should inform you, that there are some features are not supported by free WP E-Commerce plugin, it has modules which you need to pay more to get it.
June 16, 2009 at 11:41 am
Yes, the Gold Cart options. But they are still very inexpensive. Something I like about this plugin is that you don’t end up paying for features you don’t need… if you need something, you buy that individual item.
June 18, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Sure he charged you 2.5k, but for what? Maybe a design? Maybe a custom look to your website? Setting up your web hosting? What about search-ability? etc.
Go ahead and try getting your e-commerce site up in “5 minutes.” If you think you could make a well designed, e-commerce site that makes money in 5 minutes you’re a little naive.
June 21, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Very true. The tools to do it might be free – but getting a custom design, hosting, support, training… all comes at a cost.
June 11, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Wow, this will really help me out
June 11, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Thanks for the great,i was looking for the video from few days to keep e-commerce for my site.now i got it!
June 12, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Felicidades, buen trabajo.
June 12, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I get stuck at klicking on “Payment option” half way thrugh your demo. Get this message:
Display Products
Your “products page” is not currently set to display any products. You need to select a product grouping to display by default.
This is set in the Shop Settings page.
The following directories are not writable:
/hsphere/local/home/affinity2/moed.se/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/downloadables/
/hsphere/local/home/affinity2/moed.se/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/previews/
/hsphere/local/home/affinity2/moed.se/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/product_images/
/hsphere/local/home/affinity2/moed.se/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/product_images/thumbnails/
/hsphere/local/home/affinity2/moed.se/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/category_images/
You won’t be able to upload any images or files here. You will need to change the permissions on these directories to make them writable.
How do I fix?
/Daniel
June 12, 2009 at 7:12 pm
You made everything look so easy. and you did an oustanding job we all thank you.i am a newbe to this wonderful area of comunication.My website is abeyvision.com and we have been using wordpress.Here is a web page I would like you to look at.http://www.abeyvision.com/gallery/flowers-2tes.On the page for this link there are several things I want to change. The arrow and page number on the bottom is too small, The vertical images are cropped wrong and I would prefer that they remain vertical. At the top I wouls like to add some copy after or under the word Flowers but the type is too large, How can I make it smaller.is this possible? I have no idea what version is being used and what the theam is or how to change the colores… Your thoughts would be apprecisted… I also want to add some training videos and some slide shows as I move forwars with this project. If i am oversteping my bounds just let me know as i am trying to learn how to get some help.
June 16, 2009 at 1:53 pm
I’m afraid we aren’t able to offer design customization advice here (I’ve also removed your contact details from the comment, to avoid them being picked up by less savory characters). If you’d like help customizing your blog further, I’d recommend checking out the Codex, submitting specific requests for help in the WordPress.org support forums, or if that proves too much, you could take a look at our list of WordPress consultants who should be able to help you further customize your theme to suit your needs. Hope that helps, and best of luck with your website!
June 14, 2009 at 1:00 am
Great video. Makes me cringe that I am in the process of paying about $20,000 for and e-commerce site at the moment but I don’t think WordPress could provide the solution that I am looking for yet.
June 14, 2009 at 2:38 am
Really timely post! I’m scheduled to install a small-scale ecommerce solution for a chiropractor next week. He’ll be selling a handful of nutraceuticals from his new WP-based website, and this looks like the ticket.
Did I mention I’m an ecommerce newbie? Normally I’d outsource the build to a programming group but this plugin looks easy enough that I’ll risk doing it myself.
Report back later…
Dennis
June 16, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Hello again, I changed the permissions on some of the folder and got rid of the error message. It is still not working properly. Could be that I am using a swedish version of WordPress? (Swedish language)?
Is anyone with knowledge of e-commerce plugin willing to look over my plugin and get it working?
I am willing to paypal over a reasonable amount for the help.
Now I get “error on page” messages when trying to run the e-commerce store
/Daniel
June 16, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Hi Daniel,
I love your post but I could not finish the steps you showed because after I downloaded the plugin (I already had a theme set up and in the process of being configured with other plugins – it’s the Dyna Blue Theme) the only tab under “settings” that works is the “General” tab. The other ones, “Admin”, “Shipping” etc. will not open. Any ideas what might be wrong?
Thanks so much for your help. Your video was fantastic and I will tell others about it.
Joy
June 25, 2009 at 3:33 am
That is excellent tutorial adam, I made an ecommerce design for a client of mine and used this one works like a charm. Hopefuly ill show you its demo next week.
June 25, 2009 at 2:55 pm
This is really impressive recorded guide for a new like me, its what I am looking for to setup a new portal for my selling product sites. Thanks for the great 5 mins setup.
Jackie.
June 29, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Adam,
I have the same problem as Joy.
“…the only tab under “settings” that works is the “General” tab. The other ones, “Admin”, “Shipping” etc. will not open. Any ideas what might be wrong?
Peter
August 17, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Please direct support requests to the plugin support forums. These comments are meant to be specific to the video above.
June 30, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Hello and thank you very much for this demo.
I’m planning to build myself an e-commerce to sell jewelry online and I think I will try to use WordPress and one of these plugins (e-commerce, or eshop or shopp … I didn’t decide yet … e-commerce seems to be the best but it looks like it would cost me 200E with all the options).
Anyway, my problem is more about finding wordpress themes for that.
Even though there are plenty of themes for free for wordpress, I have trouble to find one that would fit an e-commerce.
Any idea where I can find that?
Cheers
Guillaume
July 6, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Hey Everyone,
For those of you who asked for a more ‘detailed’ tutorial… http://the5minutechallenge.com. I have created 10 training tutorials in high quality that should give you enough to get started with WordPress and the plugin.
More tutorials coming soon based on the WP Ecommerce plugin that will cover all aspects from installation, setup to advanced uses. Sign up to the mailing list to stay informed.
July 7, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Thank You very much, Adam Purcell. It’s really usefull tutorial.
July 8, 2009 at 5:40 am
WP’s technical team is doing wonders!!! can blogger compete with them?
July 13, 2009 at 5:45 pm
I added the plugin to an older version of wordpress then wanted to start a new site so i downloaded the newest version of wordpress (2.8.1) and now the products section does not work correctly. Has anyone encountered this problem?
July 14, 2009 at 4:28 am
The best place to ask questions like these about self-hosted WordPress installations is on the Plugins and Hacks forum on wordpress.org. There are also some posts that are tagged for that plugin here (in case someone else has run into the problem), or you can always check the plugin page on wordpress.org and get in touch with the plugin developers.
July 19, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Wow, pretty impressive. Now I’m dying to go try to do one myself. This was very good on providing step by step instructions. Thanks so much and I look forward to seeing more videos by you!
July 20, 2009 at 1:19 pm
My colleague and I are planning to sell e-commerce sites to my clients. He insists on this plug-in because he uses WP all the time. I don’t because I don’t need a cms and I think that it is ridiculous to install a CMS just to use its plug-in. Besides this, I’d like to understand what happens if our clients wanted one or two extra languages. How do you do this? I mean do this easily. I am specialized in XHTML multilanguage sites and have handled up to 12 languages using PHP and a MySQL.
July 21, 2009 at 2:26 am
You’ll probably best be able to find answers to your questions from the other kind users at the WordPress.org Support forums.
July 21, 2009 at 2:06 am
This video was actually an tutorial on how to Create an eCommerce Website with WordPress in under “6″ minutes.
July 21, 2009 at 6:43 am
Ryan Markel Says:
July 21, 2009 at 2:26 am | Reply You’ll probably best be able to find answers to your questions from the other kind users at the WordPress.org Support forums
Thank you very much.
July 22, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Should be titled, “Setup an eCommerce Website with WordPress in Under 5 Minutes, Build It Forever”
I think some of the comment confusion could have been spared with a better post title. Seems like people are expecting to get a full scale, in depth tutorial here, when it’s rather obvious that this video is meant to be more of a basic introduction to the steps and plugins, etc. required to get eCommerce running using WordPress (setup). Once it’s setup and ready to use, it will most likely require a ton more time within WP dev forums and support communities, including potential theme customizations, additional plugin functionality etc. (build) And that’s not including what it takes to actually run the online business once it’s setup and built (business know how and maintenance).
Overall I knew what to expect. That’s why I think, for the purpose, the video served as a great resource to anyone new to using WP with eCommerce.
July 23, 2009 at 7:49 am
I did not expect to get neither a full nor a small scale tutorial, I do not see how you could picture this from my post. However I realize now that my question was too vague (I expected someone to answer “yes, this is possible, go and see …..”). So I thank everybody for answering and consider the matter closed.
July 22, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Exactly right. This is meant to be a demonstration of how easy and quickly an e-commerce site can be established using WordPress and WP E-Commerce. It is definitely not a tutorial. I have added a few more detailed video tutorials at http://the5minutechallenge.com.
July 23, 2009 at 7:51 am
Thank you.
July 29, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Thats great and all but it doesn’t show anything helpful as far as anything outside the box. No special scenarios, just a general store with products. Only uses paypal (is this true or does it use other gateways?)
If there were some tutorials on how to really get down and dirty with this plugin, I would have used it for my webstore. Instead I went with Ultra Cart… even though it’s not handled inside wordpress, it was super simple to hook up buy buttons and all that jazz. Plus it has great reporting etc.
July 30, 2009 at 2:55 am
Hi TJ.
It’s not meant to be a tutorial, but rather a demonstration. The plugin has many gateways and some great reporting tools as well – and I know the guys at Instinct are constantly improving it and adding new features which is a great aspect. There is a detailed tutorial series in production now and should be available shortly. Best of luck with your webstore.
July 31, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Nice screencast,
Only the e-commerce plugin doesn’t allow enough possibilities te customize to my likings. Once more,… the screencast is really clear, but maybe you could turn the music volume down the next time
.
August 2, 2009 at 3:59 am
WP e-Commerce is definitely ready for prime time theme creators.
There are many theme combinations available and some of the nicest e-Commerce sites in the world use WP e-Commerce Plugin.
Here are some sexy WP e-Commerce Plugin examples:
1) http://www.icondock.com uses WP e-Commerce and a custom made drag and drop shopping cart in the side bar – this is one of the nicest looking e-commerce sites in the world. I live and breathe e-commerce and this site not only proves that WP e-Commerce does allow enough possibilities but the design truly took my breath away for the first time in years.
2) http://www.threadless.com is obviously not powered by WP e-Commerce BUT we recently demonstrated how extensible WP e-Commerce is by running a weekend competition to theme developers, the challenge was to recreate the threadless site using WordPress + WP e-Commerce and Thematic.
Look what happens when three awesome pieces of software come together:
http://www.instinct.co.nz/threadless-thematic-challenge-winner
3) The crafty cart theme has been used by thousands of sellers around the world now and still gets just as many downloads today as when it was first released. Simply put this theme looks great:
http://www.thekingcart.com/2008/10/02/crafty-cart-free-wordpress-ecommerce-plugin-theme/
August 14, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Potential users of wp e-commerce should know that products are NOT searchable, so it’s probably not useful if you have more than 5 products
August 15, 2009 at 12:42 am
Checkout icondock.com and do a search. You’ll see that Milo is not 100% correct.
So if you want a site that looks as sexy as icondock.com that comes with a search you know its possible with wp e-commerce.
September 7, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Hey Adam,
Adam I was blown away with the quality of the video. Please let us know the software that you used for creating the videos.
Thanks and Regards,
Pali Madra
September 13, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I’m looking for a WordPress eCommerce plugin that can do multi-vendor dropshipping. Can WPEC or other plugin do this?
Thanks
September 23, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Thanks!
October 10, 2009 at 3:12 pm
This was fantastic. Thanks for the vid, Adam!
October 15, 2009 at 12:43 pm
thanks bro great jobs
October 31, 2009 at 8:28 am
Hello, thank you for the tutorial…i just started with that plugin and your video helped me a lot.
But i got a few problems…
1. When I go into the product section I get the red message “Oops there are no purchase logs for your selection, please try again.”… but there is no link or any advice how to fix that. What shall I do, how do I add such a product log?
2. I clicked a bit through the other sections. And in the “marketing”-section there is a message: “Your “products page” is not currently set to display any products. You need to select a product grouping to display by default. This is set in the Shop Settings page.”
How can I fix that (on my blog I can see my added demo-product though)?
Thank you very much:-)
November 4, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Thank you, it seems really easy to configure it with your tutorial.
November 6, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Wow! I can’t believe how simple it is to set up an eCommerce shop using WordPress. I have been spending hours upon hours of time setting up osCommerce functionalities that come out of the box with WP e-Commerce. Will definitely be giving this a try and comparing. I hope the design modifications are easy because I will certainly switch to WP if they are.
November 10, 2009 at 10:15 pm
That was so easy. Does anyone know how to combine WP e-commerce with Mailchimp?
November 11, 2009 at 3:41 am
I used to use Shopp on our website but wanted more control over how our products are displayed. So I found PHPurchase.com which is a plugin developed by PHPoet. I found it alot easier to use than either WP-Ecommerce or Shopp. It’s very simple yet really powerful. It doesn’t have as many payment gateways but it works with our Quantum Gateway account. I highly recommend it. The company that developed the plugin is really helpful if you have any trouble getting anything set up. Check out our site if you want to see the plugin in action
November 14, 2009 at 3:34 am
So, I’m torn between this and an ecommerce solution using Joomla!
What should I do?
Does anyone have experience using both of them?
Help, please…
November 16, 2009 at 2:50 am
Great tutorial. It’s definitely a snap to add ecommerce to wordpress.
November 17, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Finally! Exactly what I needed to KNOW this was possible for me. I’ll be using this on my site now.
November 29, 2009 at 8:34 pm
what happened to the video. I don’t see it or a play button.
December 1, 2009 at 3:54 am
The video appears to be working fine at the moment; are you still not able to see it? This particular video is hosted with Viddler.
December 1, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Thank you – so very helpful – so quick – will you be adding a video about connecting products with AWebber delivery system or DGD? Good teacher!
December 12, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Wow thank you so much for this helpful video
I’d love to see an extended version where you get further into the details!
December 31, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Thanks so much. This was great. Exactly what I needed to get started.
January 4, 2010 at 2:05 am
No problem!
January 9, 2010 at 5:51 am
Hey Adam Great video and thanks for the great job on searchrevo.com. Is it possible to integrate wp e-commerce into a gallery theme? I would want to maintain the look of the gallery theme and add the pricing to the posts.
January 15, 2010 at 3:50 am
Hi Mus, there certainly is a solution –> http://www.instinct.co.nz/shop/. The Next Gen plugin from the Gold Cart store allows you to turn your gallery into a store
January 14, 2010 at 11:54 pm
I’m not worthy!
That was too cool.
January 18, 2010 at 1:03 am
You ROCK!
January 18, 2010 at 3:20 am
Decided that I need to ‘update’ this challenge, WordPress has added some cool new features since I did this… and I think I can get it done even faster
Stay tuned…
January 22, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Wow – great tut!
I’m really going to have to have a gander at wordpress …
Thomas
February 2, 2010 at 5:08 am
You are an amazing, amazing teacher! Thank you so much for sharing your expertise and wisdom. Now, you’ve empowered me, so that I can build my e-commerce enabled blog. WOW!
February 2, 2010 at 11:03 pm
When is the up-selling, cross-selling and down-selling capability coming?
February 4, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Adam,
A follow-up thank-you note after using your plugin to help me do for free what others have made seem so difficult and expensive. And I’m a middling geek only, no expert coder by any means! I will certainly buy the extensions as business picks up!
A few suggestions, for what they’re worth. You may already have these in the premium package:
1) I strongly recommend cleaning up the language in the Products>Categories tab. What’s a category? What’s a group? What’s the hierarchy. You use both terms interchangeably and it’s confusing (at least to me).
2) Consider adapting the Settings>Checkout tab to either ‘Registration’ or Check-in/Check-out. I may want to capture credit card information right away as payoff for my investment in a good sales page. It allows me to upsell more effectively. As it stands, the user gets to wander around and my sales page momentum may die off.
3) The upsell cross-sell opportunity is where the money is so accommodating that should be a priority.
4) Allow the product pages to be context sensitive to allow product or category specific video.
5) Consider enhancing the Variations tab with a Bundling section to allow bundles to be created from existing products with a simple pick systems and be given new package prices. The current option is somewhat limited.
6) Not sure if you are using someone else’s country list engine but the Marketing areas selection is tedious. Consider expanding the selection panel to a full screen dialog and allow the user to create ‘Global Markets’ categories. I may want to resell a non-language product globally but sell an info product by language zone only. Doing country selections over and over is sheer hell! Also allow ‘exclusions from list’ as opposed to having to select many into a list.
7) Build in preview buttons all over and allow code snippets for customization. Look and feel is important.
Thanks for your terrific work!
February 8, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Hi Edmund,
Thanks for the comment. I’d suggest giving that feedback to the developers at Instinct, I am just a fellow user of the plugin, not the developer. They have just launched a great new site dedicated to this plugin at http://getshopped.org.
Adam
February 8, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Thanks for the feedback Edmund.
1) We’re on it. The interface got messy for reasons i’d care to forget back when wordpress could only handle one widget at a time for a given feature. Now things are better for us Plugin developers. It is on the high priority list
The new interface is on my desktop on a nice flashy psd file. We’ll unleash it soon
2) This is supported but depends on the gateway you use.
3) Crazy timing. We’re scoping this one up
4) Good idea. Want to email me about this – I’d like to chat about this one
5) I suspect that this will be sorted once we’ve nailed “child products” as variations
6) Again I like your thinking. Please email more about this so we can think about interface together. Twitter me @danmilward if you can’t find my email
7) I like preview buttons!!
Have you looked at the new getshopped support site:
http://getshopped.org/resources/docs/
Way more information on theming and php template tags is waiting to be published – it is written but it is in the process of being tweaked and that will go live pretty soon
Thanks for the constructive feedback. Being constructive goes a long way with us chaps
February 6, 2010 at 2:53 am
Great tutorial! I have a question though. After you set up or site and integrate WP-Commerce, what other plug-ins are a necessity for security and any other ‘must have’ for dealing with transactions?
May 4, 2010 at 2:24 pm
There are no other “must have” plugins though the gold cart will really extend your functionality. Premium themes for WPEC tend to be a little cheaper than other premium WP themes.
February 24, 2010 at 8:55 am
Thank You
March 24, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Please direct any questions regarding the WP E-Commerce plugin itself or asking for support with it over to http://getshopped.org/.
May 12, 2010 at 1:48 pm
I am using Joomla, this script has really impressive possibilities, but when I want to backup it it takes an hours …
But WP has for example thousands of great plugins wich expanding the possibilities, I am using WP too.
Greg
May 15, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Does this shopping cart support other credit card gateways. I just saw Google and paypal on the Vid.
Thanks
May 21, 2010 at 8:05 am
Very nice of you to do this Adam. Very helpful. Thank you!
May 28, 2010 at 12:05 am
Excellent video tutorial. How do you feel these plug-ins will integrate with WordPress 3? With the custom post types where you can basically create your own product detail page. Will the plug-in play well?
Thanks!!
May 29, 2010 at 2:21 am
These are very helpful tips – it would be great if an ebook were available with this tutorial.
June 3, 2010 at 6:52 am
I have been trying to set up the wo e-commerce plugin on my wordpress blog. However, it gives me the following error message.
Your “products page” is not currently set to display any products. You need to select a product grouping to display by default.
This is set in the Shop Settings page.
No matter what I do, the message won’t go. I am not able to handle the payments etc. Only the General Settings button is clickable. Any suggestions on how to handle this issue?
Thanks and regards
June 15, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Is WP-Ecommerce free? Or need to purchase?
June 20, 2010 at 9:36 am
It’s free but there are modules available for a price.
June 21, 2010 at 10:59 pm
This Plugin is Free but there are paid services and add ons.
Same business model as Automattic
5 Minutes to create an e-Commerce site is still true. If you only have a few products and a theme in mind then you’re going to rock and roll. Especially if you’re talking about digital downloads
Like John said though (and I have no idea why he stated the so blindingly obvious) but of course it is going to take time to write descriptions for your products, upload images and configure your settings etc… if you have a big catalogue of products then it will take you time. The WP e-Commerce Plugin team always recommend you write awesome SEO focused product descriptions that will help people decide to buy buy buy your products.
This just goes without saying.
So who’s excited about our 3.8 release and custom post type integration
Ciao,
Dan
July 12, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Great tutorial and you got it all done in 5 minutes. I have used a few other shopping cart solutions and am wondering how wordpress can stack-up if you have 100′s of products to sell. What do other folks think about PrestaShop?
I have a client who wants a specific look to the cart and PrestaShop handles this perfectly for her needs but I would like to use wordpress as the overall solution for them. Please share….
peace,
pat