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, […]
Ultimate Guide to WordPress eCommerce: Settings
Welcome back to our series on WordPress eCommerce. In previous installments, we learned about the different types of eCommerce as well as some of the shopping carts available. In this post, we are going to walk through the different settings you need to configure before launching your online store. This article features WooCommerce, arguably one of the most, if not the most, popular WordPress plugins, with more than one million active downloads worldwide. Getting Started Once you’ve installed and activated the plugin (just like you would with any other plugin), you’ll notice two new tabs on your left navigation bar—WooCommerce and Products. Now […]
Ultimate Guide to WordPress eCommerce: Plugins and Plugin Installation
To find more great plugins, check out Torque’s free eBook, The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Plugins. Download it here. Welcome back to our series on using WordPress for eCommerce. In the first installment, we looked at the different types of eCommerce sites and customer scenarios that you are most likely to encounter. In this article, we are going to look at some favorable eCommerce plugins for WordPress and discuss their basic installation. In the next article we will take an in-depth look at the settings you need to be aware of; and then finally, in the last article, we will […]
Ultimate Guide to WordPress eCommerce: Introduction to eCommerce
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. […]
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