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Buying and selling items online have become more and more important nowadays. Probably you want to create an ecommerce websites to sell your items worldwide.
There are a lot of popular ecommerce solutions, either commercial or open source. Magento is one of the most popular open source platform for ecommerce websites. We had covered various well-designed Magento themes before. But, if you are familiar with Wordpress, you may wish to use it as your ecommerce websites too.
Today, we are going to look into various themes, plugins and tutorials to build your own Wordpress Ecommerce website. Let’s look into this Wordpress Ecommerce solution starter kits.
Ecommerce Themes/Templates
Crafty Cart
Carfty Cart is a famous free Wordpress Ecommerce theme. It is being built by Billion Studio especially for King Cart’s readers. But everyone can download it for free. It requires WP e-Commerce plugin to function properly.
Shopping Cart Themes From ShopperPress
ShopperPress is a complete Wordpress Ecommerce solution. Users can download 6 different color themes for free (some of them required you to tweet them for the download link).
Market Theme
Market is the revolutionary theme that transforms any standard Wordpress install into a fully functional Ecommerce store complete with backend product administration.
Ecommerce Themes
Ecommerce Themes allows prospective merchants an easy-to-use, low-cost way to get an online Ecommece store up and running using the free content management software WordPress. It is search engine optimized and easily customizable.
wpShop
wpShop is an Ecommerce Wordpress theme which contains 2 localized child themes (English and German). It is being sold in ThemeForest and is only cost $35, which i think is the cheapest premium Wordpress Ecommerce theme. It has a backend admin page to manage your orders.
Ecommerce Plugins
WP e-Commerce
It is the most powerful free Wordpress Ecommerce plugin. It integrates with a lot of payment options and designers may easily tweak the look and feel of the website by utilizing Wordpress PHP template tags, shortcodes, and widgets. Besides these, WP e-Commerce has a complete documentation and beginners are easy to get started with it.
eShop
eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features. It can handles downloadable products and supports various payment options such as Paypal, Payson, eProcessingNetwork, Webtopay and Cash/Cheque.
YAK for WordPress
It is an open source Wordpress plugin for Ecommerce. It supports posts and pages as products and uses categories to handle different type of products. YAK supports different payment options too. Basic documentation is free while the advance useages documentation costs $20.
Shopp
Shopp is a premium Wordpress plugin for Ecommerce solution. You will have complete control over the shopping experience, which mean you can customize the design with stylesheets and Wordpress PHP tags. The documentation is pretty complete, and you can get more supports from the community via the support forums.
Wordpress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart Plugin
This simple plugin lets users add an “Add to cart” button anywhere on the blog. Customers can view their items from the shopping cart page.
Tutorials And Resources
1. Create an eCommerce Website with WordPress in under 5 minutes – A video tutorial from Wordpress.tv that teach you about how to create an Ecommerce website with Wordpress and the WP e-Commerce plugin.
2. Getting set up with the WP e-Commerce plugin: settings and configuration – Another video tutorial which walks you through the process of getting set up with the WP e-Commerce plugin.
3. How to Build an Online Store With WordPress – A simple tutorial on how to use Ecommerce Themes from iThemes to built your own online store.
4. How To Open An Online Store With WordPress In Less Than 30 Minutes – Shows you how to built and create an online store with Wordpress in less than 30 minutes. It is very suitable for beginners.
5. WP e-Commerce SEO Tutorial – This SEO tutorial is designed to show you how to optimize WP e-Commerce for maximum traffic from the search engines.
6. WP e-Commerce Review For Wordpress – This article reviews the pros and cons of WP e-Commerce. A must read article for WP e-Commerce users!
I did not get the point for doing e commerce, Hope some one can help me with it
the point of doing ecommerce is that if you (or your client) is a retail business and wants website visitors to be able to purchase items online.
Didn’t know we can do these. Nice post Dicky
Have a good weekend
See also my collection of wordpress ecommerce solutions (german only): http://playground.ebiene.de/1787/wordpress-ecommerce-loesungen/
You can also check out one of of our recent WordPress commercial themes: Lucidity Catalog which easily allows people to set up a store/catalog on their web site as long as they are using “Buy Now” or any other JS/HTML buy button.
Wow these look so great I think I may need to look mire into wordpress…
I have alway herd of it but never really knew what it was…
Thank you for including wpShop in your list.
There’s 3 more in the series so don’t forget to check them out too? They are folioShop, ArtShop and eGoods.
Nice post, definately will use this in some of my sites !
great post, thanks for resources..
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Thanks for sharing an excellent assortment of Wordpress ecommerce themes! I’m so glad to see the expansion of Wordpress into ecommerce. I’ve used a couple of these myself and they’ve been great, especially for niche sites.
I didn’t even know you could get a free shopping cart facility on wordpress… I was just about to pay for a plug in. Thank you SO MUCH for the information here.
I wasn’t aware of ShopperPress. Thank you for that link.
Nice list. Thanks. Perfect timing also. I’m creating an online store for a client’s wordpress site as we speak.
I can’t find any nice e-shop template for kids
We have a WordPress Shopping cart plugin at http://www.PHPurchase.com that may be of interest. It is really designed to be used with sites that sell only a hand full of different products so you don’t need the fancy grid layouts and so forth that some of the other plugins sort of force you into using. Our plugin is designed to be really easy to use. We also give you video tutorials on how to set everything up. Please check us out if you are looking for a good WordPress e-commerce plugin.
We recently switched our website from Shopp to PHPurchase. PHPurchase was much less expensive and since we only sell a few different products we didn’t need all the fancy grid layout features and so forth. We just wanted to build the pages the way we wanted and then sell our headphones. Plus PHPurchase is backed by a nice bunch of developers at PHPoet which made me feel comfortable in case I needed some support. So if you are looking around, you may want to consider checking out http://www.phpurchase.com
Hi we have a new template for WP-ECommerce theme, we call AppCloud you guys can check here
portfolio.icreativelabs.com/free-wordpress-e-commerce-theme-appcloud/
Wow,….amazing resources.
I am a huge Wordpress fan, and installing a webstore on Wordpress will be a lot of fun.
Cheers!
Alex Kei.
i love this themes