Welcome to the big finale in our series on WordPress eCommerce. If you’ve been with us from the beginning, you have learned about the different types of eCommerce, some of the different shopping cart plugins available, and you’ve walked through all of the settings involved in launching an online store. In this final post we are going to learn all about how to add products to your online store. After all, what good is a store with no products? Types of products When it comes to eCommerce products, there’s thousands of different types of products, but when you look at it from a high level, […]

WordPress took off as a business tool shortly after plugins were first introduced in version 1.2, back in 2004. The inclusion of plugins was important for a couple of reasons. Most notably because it allowed third-party developers (whether that be an individual or a company) to develop add ons to WordPress, for both personal and business sites. From a business perspective, this was a huge development, as, prior to 2004, WordPress was still seen as a personal blogging tool with no real business application. Sure, you could build a marketing or brochure site, but you really couldn’t do much more than that. […]