WordPress eCommerce

WordPress Clickbank Integration – Easy to Use WordPress Plugin to Sell Clickbank Products From Your Website

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:32:09 +0000

WordPress Clickbank integration is a simple WordPress plugin which allows you to sell any clickbank product from your blog. With WordPress Clickbank Integration you can easily create a ‘Buy Now’ button on a page or post and sell your clickbank products to the customers.

Installation

Via FTP

1. Unzip and Upload the folder ‘wordpress-clickbank-integration’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Via WordPress Plugin Uploader

On your Dashboard go to “Add New” under “Plugins”.
Click “Upload”.
Click “Browse”.
Select the “wordpress-clickbank-integration.zip” file and hit “Install Now”.
Once the Installation is completed, click “Activate Plugin”.

Usage

1. Once you install and activate the plugin, go to “WordPress Clickbank Integration” under “Settings”.

2. Under “general settings” of the plugin there is a “Vendor ID” field where you need to enter your Clickbank Vendor ID.

3. There is also an “Image URL” field where you need to enter the URL of the button image ( it will be used as a normal button image for all of your clickbank products). Some Clickbank button images are available with this plugin. You can find them on – http://www.your-site.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-clickbank-integration/images/

4. Click “Update” to save your settings.

5. Now use the following shortcode on a page or post to create a Clickbank buy now button -

[wp_clickbank_product id=PRODUCT-ID]

Replace the PRODUCT-ID with your clickbank product id (e.g 2 or 3).

6. If you want to use a custom button image for different products enter the following shortcode -

[wp_clickbank_product id=PRODUCT-ID image=IMAGE-URL]

Replace the IMAGE-URL with the true button image url (e.g. http://www.your-site.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-clickbank-integration/images/button.gif).

WordPress Clickbank Integration - General Settings

Plugin Demo

The following “Buy now” button has been configured with a clickbank product. Click on the button to see how it works

Product Name: How to Sell ebook From a WordPress Blog

Product Price: $3.00

Download

Download the WordPress Clickbank Integration plugin from here

Please leave a comment if you have any suggestion.

How to Create a WordPress Membership Site

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:33:17 +0000

Creating a WordPress membership site is very profitable nowadays. With a WordPress membership plugin you can easily protect the premium contents of your site which only the premium members will be able to access. As soon as someone subscribes to the premium membership, he/she will be able to view the premium contents. In this way you can increase your website revenue from subscriptions.

There are many membership plugins out there but WP eMember, an easy to use WordPress membership plugin could be a good choice.

Why WP eMember WordPress membership plugin?

a) It allows you to create as many membership as you want.

b) You can set the content (e.g page, post, category etc) protection for all your memberships easily and choose which content can be viewed by which membership level.

c) It allows you to set up the membership payment button in plain Paypal button so you don’t need to have a WordPress shopping cart plugin.

d) Members can bookmark the page or post anytime. Those bookmarks can be shown to them in a list when they log in so that they can access them easily (A member can only bookmark the page or post which he/she has access to view).

e) It allows you to protect the section of a post or page (if you don’t want to show the whole page or post to your visitor you can protect a section which can be accessed if anyone subscribes to that membership)

f) It allows you to use the Auto Upgrade Feature to Drip Content (suppose you have basic membership and premium membership on your site. Now you can specify after how many days that basic member will be upgraded to premium member).

g) You can show the purchase history of members if they purchase something from your site while logged in (Each member can see only his/her own purchase history).

WP eMember Video Tutorial

Please watch the following tutorials to have an understanding of how WP eMember plugin works.

1. WP eMember Installation

A quick video on how to install the WP eMember plugin on your WordPress site.

2. How to Setup a Free Membership Site

This video tutorial shows you how to set up a general content protection for anyone visiting your website and how you can give access to members (e.g members of level “free”)

3. How to Setup a Premium Membership Site

This tutorial shows you how to set up a content protection for free members and allow access to premium members. Note that the payment button has been created with WP eStore in this tutorial but you can do it with simple Paypal button as well ( Watch tutorial-4 on how to do it with Paypal button).

4. How to Use a Plain PayPal Button to Create a Premium Membership site

5. How to Manage Content Protection in eMember

A. How to Create Membership Levels

A basic tutorial on how to create membership levels (e.g free, silver, gold).

B. Configuring the Settings Options

This tutorial shows you how to configure the settings options in WP eMember plugin.

C. Managing Content Protection

Integration with WP eStore for membership payment

If you are using WP eStore as a shopping cart plugin, this tutorial will show you how you can integrate it with WP eMember.

If you are interested in setting up a WordPress membership site with WP eMember plugin, you can check the plugin here

Affiliate Link Cloaker – Simple WordPress Plugin to Cloak Affiliate Links

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:54:20 +0000

The Affiliate Link Cloaker is a user-friendly WordPress plugin which allows you to cloak affiliate links. It can also be used to shorten links on your WordPress blog.

Plugin Description

Affiliate Link Cloaker allows you to create a cloaked link for any affiliate URL. After you created a cloaked link you will be able to use that anywhere on your website. Anyone visiting your website will see the cloaked/shortened link. Once the link is clicked the visitor will be redirected to the full URL.

Installation

Via FTP

1. Unzip and Upload the folder ‘affiliate-link-cloaker’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Via WordPress Plugin Uploader

On your Dashboard go to “Add New” under “Plugins”.
Click “Upload”.
Click “Browse”.
Select the “affiliate-link-cloaker.zip” file and hit “Install Now”.
Once the Installation is completed, click “Activate Plugin”.

Usage

Once you install and activate the plugin, go to “WP Link Cloaker” under “Settings”. (See screenshot here)
Under “general settings” of the plugin there is a field “Cloak Word”. In this field you can enter any text which will be used to create the tiny URL. The default text is “item”. If you change any text of the field click “Update”. (See screenshot here)
Now go to the tab “Add Link”. (see screenshot here)
There is a field called “Target Link” where you need to enter your full affiliate URL or any link that you want to shorten. Enter the URL and click “Save”. (see screenshot here)
Go to the tab called “Manage Links”. (See screenshot here)
You will see that a “Cloaked/Shortened URL” has been created for the URL you just provided. Now use this “Cloaked version of the URL” anywhere on your blog. (see screenshot here)

Plugin Demo

This link has been configured to work as a cloaked link. The actual target link is the following:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-estore-plugin-complete-solution-to-sell-digital-products-from-your-wordpress-blog-securely-1059?ap_id=naa986

Click here to see how it works.

Download

Download the Affiliate Link Cloaker plugin from here

Please leave a comment if you have any suggestion.

5 Ecommerce Shopping Cart Solutions For Your WordPress Site

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:37:33 +0000

To build a successful e-commerce WordPress blog and sell product, a good shopping cart plugin is necessary. Based on what type of product you want to sell, different shopping cart plugins might suit your needs. After a research I found some ecommerce shopping cart solutions to help you decide what to use and you will also have an idea of how different WordPress shopping cart plugins work.

1. WP eStore

A fully featured and user-friendly WordPress shopping cart plugin to sell any digital or non-digital product.

Main Features:

It provides the security for your product.
You can integrate it with Nextgen Gallery plugin.
Pre-integration with WP eMember and WP Affiliate Platform.
It allows your customer to download digital product securely.
Integration with Aweber, Mailchimp, GetResponse.
Easy Checkout system.
Multiple payment gateways.
It allows you to have multi site license.

i) WP eStore Installation

ii) WP eStore Settings Configuration

iii) How to Configure a Product

iv) How to Display a Product on a Post or Page

WP eStore shopping cart plugin can be found here.

2. ShopperPress

It is an easy to use shopping cart theme which allows you to sell any type of product online.

It allows you to analyze and track sales.
A complete web-based control panel.
It allows you to have 20+ built in payment gateways.
It provides you online security.
Shipping and Tax are easily customizable.

ShopperPress can be found here.

3. Market Theme

It is one kind of shopping cart based theme which allows you to turn your site in to a digital store.

Main Feature:

It allows you to have a nice product display.
It is compatible with WordPress and WordPress MU
It allows you to sell affiliate products.
It allows multiple payment methods.
It allows you to have multiple attributes for different products.
Smart search option.
Eligible for multiple usage.

Market theme can be found here.

4. WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin

This is a shopping cart plugin developed by tribulant.

Main Features:

Easy to use shopping cart interface.
It allows you to set up multiple products in to multiple categories.
You can add images to showcase your products.
Your customer can any download digital product securely.
It allows multiple payment methods.

You can get the WordPress shopping cart plugin here.

5. PHPurchase

PHPurchase is a simple WordPress shopping cart plugin for selling products online.

Main Features:

It allows you to set up a complete store on your website.
It is PCI Compliant.
It automatically keeps track of your order.
It allows you to offer a discount.
Shipping option is provided.
It allows you to change the look of your blog.
You can also customize the checkout process with this.
Auto integration with multiple payment gateways.

Here is the official demo video showing an overview of PHPurchase shopping cart plugin-

You can get the PHPurchase shopping cart plugin here.

How to Start a Complete Online Business on Your WordPress Blog

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:05:52 +0000

As the time goes by, WordPress is becoming very popular as a CMS (Content Management System). If you’ve already started blogging in WordPress, may be you are thinking of setting up an online business. The first thing to solve any problem is to identify it. Once you identify it, it’s very simple to get the solution. In this case you have to think what exactly you need to start an online business on your WordPress site.

When it comes to set up an online business with WordPress, You need to have 3 things-

1. A WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin.

2. A WordPress Affiliate Plugin.

3. A WordPress Membership Plugin.

Why do you need to have those plugins?

If you want to sell anything from your blog, you really need to have a reliable and easy to use WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin Which will automatically handle all your product sales.
Once you start selling products from your own website, you will certainly want to increase the sales. To increase your sales you need more traffic. You can get more traffic if other people refer traffic to your website. But they won’t refer traffic until you offer them a specific commission for each conversion. That’s why you need to have an Affiliate program on your website.
When you have both the shopping cart and affiliate program running, you can now set some of your blog contents (e.g- page,post) to premium so that only paid members can view those. A fully featured Membership plugin will be useful in that case.

1. WP eStore

It is a user-friendly WordPress shopping cart plugin developed by tipsandtricks-hq.com. You can sell any kind of digital or non-digital product from your website with this plugin. In fact, I’m using this plugin to sell e-book from my site. They provide great support to the customer.

You can see the Official plugin demo videos to see how it works-

i) WP eStore Installation

ii) WP eStore Settings Configuration

iii) How to Configure a Product

iv) How to Display a Product on a Post or Page

2. WP Affiliate Platform

This is an easy to use WordPress affiliate plugin to manage your affiliates. With this plugin any one can sign up for an affiliate and promote your product on his/her website.

Here is the official demo videos to see how the plugin works-

i) WP Affiliate Platform Installation

ii) WP Affiliate Platform Settings Configuration

iii) WP Affiliate Platform Affiliate Banner/Link Creation

iv) WP Affiliate Platform Click and Sale Tracking Test

3. WP eMember

A fully featured membership plugin for WordPress. With this plugin you can easily create different membership levels and protect different contents of your blog for different members.

Here is the WP eMember official demo videos on plugin usage-

i) WP eMember Installation

ii) How to Create Membership Levels

iii) Configuring the Settings Options

iv) Managing Content Protection

v) Integration with WP eStore for membership payment

Another good thing about all these plugins is they are pre-integrated with one another so you can use them simultaneously.

If you want to set up your website for online business, get all the Plugins as a package here

Boost Your Google Adwords Profits With Conversion Optimizer

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:57:23 +0000

We all know about Google Adwords, one of the best ways of promoting your own products through advertising online. If you already have an Adwords account probably you are thinking how you can increase the conversion rate of the e-commerce products you are promoting. Well, If it’s a text link ad may be you are thinking how you can make its texts more attractive; if it’s an image ad may be you want to make it look more beautiful or colorful so that people become more likely to click on that. But you might not know that you can also increase your profits with an Adwords feature called Conversion Optimizer.

What is Conversion Optimizer?

Basically, Conversion Optimizer is an Adwords feature which significantly increases your conversion rate at a lower cost

How Conversion Optimizer Works

1. It monitors your conversion tracking data and see how often each auction leads to a conversion.

2. Based on the performance it determines which auctions will be good to use.

3. It automatically adjusts your bids on a continuous basis. Consequently, your money gets invested for the best auction.

4. It also creates an ad rank on the basis of your CPA bid, quality score and predicted conversion rate.

Benefits of Using Conversion Optimizer

It allows you to increase your profits.

It is Easy to use.

Decrease you time for managing bids.

You can enable and disable this feature anytime.

Disabling this feature will revert all your campaigns to the previous state.

It allows you to get the maximum CPA goals.

It is completely free for Adwords advertisers.

To get started with Conversion Optimizer, click here

How to Turn Your WordPress Site into an Online Auction House

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:11:14 +0000

Do you want to create a WordPress blog where you can host different auctions? You can do it now with WP Auctions, a WordPress plugin which enables you to auction anything on your website.

Main Features

You can easily Create, Manage or Edit as many auctions as you like.

You can increment your own bid anytime.

You can specify the ending date and time

For any auction you can upload many images.

It allows you to Show your auctions in a AJAX powered popup

You can also place auctions in any page or post.

Additional Features

Any registered user will be able to participate in auction.

Payment through Paypal, check or wire transfer is accepted.

Shipping option is also available.

When there is no auction it shows 3rd party ads.

It allows to set your own currency.

Bid notifications are sent via email (e.g- when any bidder gets outbid).

If any bidder wins he/she gets notification via email with payment instruction.

It allows you to delete any fraudulent bid.

Google Adsense or any other CPC program compatible.

You can choose up to 5 different free color styles for your blog.

Here is the official WP Auction demo video showing you how to set up an auction-

If you are interested in setting up your WordPress blog with WP Auctions, you can get the plugin here

Caffeine:The New Google Web Indexing System

admin — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:43:19 +0000

Google has announced its new web indexing system called Caffeine. The good thing about Caffeine is it provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than it used to do before. Certainly this would be good for the people who update their blogs regularly with new content. As Caffeine indexes blog posts or pages faster, anyone who is searching for information in the web will find links to relevant content much sooner now.

The reason why Google has build their new search indexing system is to help people find the latest relevant content and meet their expectations. People always expect good search results from Google. There are many blogs out there who are already outdated with information. But they just come in the first page because their blogs were established earlier. So even if a new blog has reliable information it might not come in a good place in the Google search results.

With this new web indexing system Google analyzes the web in small portions continuously and update the search index. Whenever it finds any new pages or new information on an existing page, it adds those to the index instantly. So users get fresh search results of new contents quickly where the old indexing system of Google were divided into some layers; some of which were refreshed faster and some slower. But the main layer used to update in every couple of weeks. So it had to analyze the entire web to update a layer of the old index which means there was a delay in indexing a page or post after anyone publishes any new content.

Here is a good video by Matt Cutt, the head of the Google search engine quality and webspam team explaining how the Google web indexing system works-

Now that the page indexing is faster and relevant, it’s good to keep an eye on updating the website regularly with new content. That way it will be more likely to get a good position in the Google search result and consequently it will also increase website traffic.

Increase Your Website Security Using The Login LockDown WordPress Plugin

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:16:13 +0000

Couple of days ago I received an email from WordPress saying “Someone has asked for a password reset for www.wordpress-ecommerce.com, If you are the right person follow the link to reset your password”. I was totally surprised getting that email as it never happened to me and I was never that worried about the security of my website before. Luckily I found a WordPress plugin named “Login LockDown” and installed on my site instantly.

One good think about this plugin is it keeps track of the IP address and after a certain number of login attempt (which you can specify in the settings of the plugin) from the same IP address, it disables the login option. So anyone who is trying to hack your password using brute force won’t be able to do anything.

There are 5 options under the main settings.

Max Login Retries: It determines how many times someone can tries to log in from the same IP.
Retry Time Period Restriction: you can specify a time period after which someone can retry.
Lockout Length: Length of the time period for lockout.
You can also lockout invalid username and mask login error checking the option.

At the bottom of the plugin settings, you can also see if it has blocked any IP address currently. If it does that means someone was trying to get access to your site.

Another mistake that people often do is installing any kind of free WordPress Plugin on their server. Free WordPress plugin doesn’t mean that it’s secure. Before installing any plugin you need to make sure that it’s credible and helpful for you. Some people even don’t use any plugin but they will have to have hundreds of free WordPress plugins installed on their site. What they don’t realize is any of this plugins might have a malicious PHP script. Once you activate the plugin the malicious PHP script will run and cause harm to your site. And who knows how worse it can be. I’ve a friend whose website got hacked by this. Not too long ago. The Malicious PHP script which caused harm to his site not only did different weird things but also changed the file permission of all the folders and files. Consequently, his site became so vulnerable that it can be hacked by other people easily.

So even if nobody has hacked your login information, you are letting other people get into your site just by installing a free WordPress plugin. I recommend you to think wisely before installing any WordPress plugin, no matter if it’s a free plugin.

The Login LockDown plugin can be found here.

10 Most Popular Plugins For WordPress

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:05:22 +0000

We all know that plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything. Based on the number of downloads and average ratings I’ve found 10 most popular WordPress plugins-

1. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin generates a XML sitemap which helps search engines to index your blog better.

Visit the plugin page

2. WPtouch iPhone Theme

WPtouch transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme automatically.

Visit the plugin page

3. All in One SEO Pack

It Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines.

Visit the plugin page

4. Contact Form 7

A simple contact form for wordpress which can manage multiple contact forms

Visit the plugin page

5. TweetMeme Button

It Adds a button to let you retweet your blog posts easily.

Visit the plugin page

6. NextGEN Gallery

This plugin allows you to create a image gallery with a flash slideshow option.

Visit the plugin page

7. Maintenance Mode

It Adds a splash page to your blog that let the visitors know that your blog is down for maintenance.

Visit the plugin page

8. Fast and Secure Contact Form

This plugin allows you to create a customizable contact form to let your visitors send you email

Visit the plugin page

9. WP-PageNavi

This plugin adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress site.

Visit the plugin page

10. Post videos and photo galleries

It allows you to post your videos and photo galleries/flash slideshows easily

Visit the plugin page

WordPress eCommerce

WordPress Clickbank Integration – Easy to Use WordPress Plugin to Sell Clickbank Products From Your Website

Installation

Usage

Plugin Demo

Download

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How to Create a WordPress Membership Site

Why WP eMember WordPress membership plugin?

WP eMember Video Tutorial

1. WP eMember Installation

2. How to Setup a Free Membership Site

3. How to Setup a Premium Membership Site

4. How to Use a Plain PayPal Button to Create a Premium Membership site

5. How to Manage Content Protection in eMember

Other Miscellaneous Tutorials

A. How to Create Membership Levels

B. Configuring the Settings Options

C. Managing Content Protection

Integration with WP eStore for membership payment

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Affiliate Link Cloaker – Simple WordPress Plugin to Cloak Affiliate Links

Plugin Description

Installation

Usage

Plugin Demo

Download

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5 Ecommerce Shopping Cart Solutions For Your WordPress Site

1. WP eStore

i) WP eStore Installation

ii) WP eStore Settings Configuration

iii) How to Configure a Product

iv) How to Display a Product on a Post or Page

2. ShopperPress

3. Market Theme

4. WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin

5. PHPurchase

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How to Start a Complete Online Business on Your WordPress Blog

Why do you need to have those plugins?

Recommended Solutions

1. WP eStore

i) WP eStore Installation

ii) WP eStore Settings Configuration

iii) How to Configure a Product

iv) How to Display a Product on a Post or Page

2. WP Affiliate Platform

i) WP Affiliate Platform Installation

ii) WP Affiliate Platform Settings Configuration

iii) WP Affiliate Platform Affiliate Banner/Link Creation

iv) WP Affiliate Platform Click and Sale Tracking Test

3. WP eMember

i) WP eMember Installation

ii) How to Create Membership Levels

iii) Configuring the Settings Options

iv) Managing Content Protection

v) Integration with WP eStore for membership payment

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What is Conversion Optimizer?

How Conversion Optimizer Works

Benefits of Using Conversion Optimizer

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How to Turn Your WordPress Site into an Online Auction House

Main Features

Additional Features

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1. Google XML Sitemaps

2. WPtouch iPhone Theme

3. All in One SEO Pack

4. Contact Form 7

5. TweetMeme Button

6. NextGEN Gallery

7. Maintenance Mode