This is a good tutorial though, wish I would have found it before I started installing this theme!

thanks for sharing this plugin with us. I have 2 questions:
1. calling e-Commerce > Settings > Payment does not seam to work… it brings no new page. Also changing from General to Admin or Presentation won’t work, but I could at least reload the page and see their contents.
When trying Payment or Shipping and refresh the page I see no options at all. What I am doing wrong?

2. I cannot seam to enter a product description in Greek. I get ? for greek characters. Bad luck ?

Best regards, ViSta

http://9usd.co.cc/2011/01/create-a-shop-ecommerce-with-wordpress/

Lee

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

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

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.

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

Thanks

Greg

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

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

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!

I’m really going to have to have a gander at wordpress …

Thomas

That was too cool.

I’d love to see an extended version where you get further into the details!

What should I do?

Does anyone have experience using both of them?

Help, please…

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:-)

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

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.

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/

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 .

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.

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.

Thank you very much.

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.

Any idea where I can find that?

Cheers
Guillaume

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

Jackie.

Thanks so much for your help. Your video was fantastic and I will tell others about it.

Joy

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

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

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