Wordpress is becoming more & more flexible every day, no longer is it just a blogging platform. The following guide should highlight everything you need to turn your website into a fully functional Ecommerce store with Wordpress. This makes it incredibly easy for Designers, Coders & Artists to sell digital wares via their blog without the startup costs of typical ecommerce software.
Wordpress Ecommerce Themes
Market Theme – $55
The Market Theme is an all in one Wordpress Ecommerce Theme with a built in shopping cart. The features include:
- User Purchase History
- Product Search Capability
- Related Products Shown on Item Page
- Multiple Images for Product
- Sell Digital and Physical Products
- Easily Customizable with CSS and template edits
- Self-contained Shopping Cart System
- Fully functional Wordpress Theme
- Grid Based Product Layout
- Paypal payment integration included
- Authorize.net payment integration included
Crafty Cart – Free
Crafty Cart is a free Wordpress Ecommerce Theme designed to work with the WP-Ecommerce plugin (which is also free).
Ecommerce Theme – $79.95
The Ecommerce Theme is another fully fuctional Wordpress Ecommerce Theme that works straight out of the box. Features include:
- Featured Product on Homepage
- Grid View on Homepage
- Change number of products on Homepage
WP Shop – $35.00
WP Shop is a feature packed theme with shopping cart integration. Features include:
- Simple Breadcrumb navigation
- Products are set using posts and categorized in single first level categories
- Thumbnails using custom fields
Home page
- Displays the Title of each category along with a thumbnail image of the latest posted product from each category
Category page:
- Displays the Title of each product along with it’s thumbnail image
- Links to the details (single) page as well as displays a button to directly add the item into shopping cart
Single Page:
- Displays the Title of each product along with it’s thumbnail image
- Displays “other views” of the same product using a mini-gallery of images.
- Uses the “jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries” plugin on the mini-gallery.
- Displays upto 5 titles of related products.
Sidebar:
- Category display
- Search
- Recently added (3) products display with thumbnail
- Track your order
- Widget ready
Tobashop – $25
TobaShop is a fully featured Wordpress Ecommerce theme & shopping cart. It features Jquery drop down menus & admin backend & also:
- Integrated with eShop e-Commerce plugins for retrieving product price & option, it also support shopping cart display on pages and widget.
- Multi Column display, which is up to 4 column gird layout to display products.
- Wide featured slider to promote top products.
- Main category blocking to show leading categories.
- 5 widget positions to display Ecommerce widget in eShop plugins.
- Admin Panel theme options to easily entered the featured category to display on the homepage.
- JQuery drop down menu for category and pages.
- Scrollable latest products
- Threaded comments
- Browser Compatibility, including IE6
- Automatic thumbnail resize, upload any images and let theme do its magic
Wordpress Ecommerce Plugins
WP-Ecommerce – Free
WP-Ecommerce has been downloaded over 300,000 times & is coded by Instinct Entertainment based in New Zealand. There’s a free version & a gold version both of which also work with WP-MU.
Features include:
- One Page Checkout
- Product Tagging
- Themes
- CSS Customisation
- Downloadable Products
- Product Newsletters
- Related Products
- Mulitple Payment Gateways
Shopp Plugin – $55
The Shopp Plugin is a commerical Ecommerce Plugin for Wordpress with a rich featureset. The key features include:
- Single Page Product Data Entry
- Drag & Drop for multiple product images
- Support for Physical & Digital Products
- Order History
- Email Notifications
- RSS Feeds for Categories
- Fast Product Search
- Shipping Rate Calculations
- Shipping Discounts
- Promo Codes & Coupon Codes
eShop Plugin – Free
eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features. Including:
- Utilises WordPress pages, or posts, to create products
- Various methods available for listing products
- Products can have multiple options
- Upload downloadable products
- Basic Statistics
- Download sales data
- Various shipping options
- Admin has access to an Order handling section
- Automatic emails on successful purchase
- User configurable email templates.
- Configurable Out of Stock message.
- Basic Stock Control
- Google Base Data creation
- Uninstall available within the plugin
- Various discount options
- Several payment options
Yakk Plugin – Free
Yakk is an open sourcing Ecommerce /Shopping Cart plugin for Wordpress. This product is a bit more simplistic than eShop & Shopp, it only has 3 management areas:
- Showing & Fufilling Orders
- Product Management
- Basic Sales Reports