WordPress eCommerce » how to http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com Wordpress eCommerce Plugins Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:42:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How to Create a WordPress Membership Site http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-create-a-wordpress-membership-site-923 http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-create-a-wordpress-membership-site-923#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:33:17 +0000 admin http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/?p=923

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

Other Miscellaneous Tutorials

Some other useful tutorials to get you started with WP 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

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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.

Recommended Solutions

As we have figured out what we need to have to set up an online business, Let’s discuss about the possible solutions.

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

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]]> http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-start-a-complete-online-business-on-your-wordpress-blog-811/feed 4 How to Turn Your WordPress Site into an Online Auction House http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-turn-your-wordpress-site-into-an-online-auction-house-798 http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-turn-your-wordpress-site-into-an-online-auction-house-798#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:11:14 +0000 admin http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/?p=798

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

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Selling e-book is easy if you know how to do it. My last e-book  “How to Sell eBook from WordPress Site- The Ultimate Step by Step Guide to selling eBooks from Your Site” was appreciated by many people. But the people who want to sell e-book for the first time might find it harder to follow any premium WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin. Even Many people may not know that they can sell e-book from their WordPress blog using a free WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin.This e-book “How to Sell ebook From a WordPress Blog Using Free WP Shopping Cart Plugin” is the simple version of my last e-book.

The main features of this e-book-

Some screenshots from inside the e-book,

Screenshot 1

Screenshot 2

Screenshot 3

Free WP Shopping Cart plugin can be found here

Download the e-book from here


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Transaction through PayPal is very common for online shopping these days. PayPal can be used to sell both digital and non-digital products. If you do not use a WordPress Shopping Cart on your site, you might want to know how you can easily create a simple ‘Buy Now‘ button with PayPal and put on your product page or post to sell products.

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create a simple ‘Buy Now’ button with PayPal. If you do not have a PayPal account, you can sign up for one here. If you already have a PayPal account, all you need to do is just log in to your account and follow the tutorial.

Note: You need to have a  PayPal  ‘Premier‘ or ‘Business‘ account to be able to create ‘Buy Now‘ buttons. If your account type is ‘Personal‘, you can upgrade it to ‘Premier‘ or ‘Business‘ for free to be able to buy and sell online.

This is a very basic tutorial to create a simple ‘Buy Now‘ button. I did not customize the ‘Buy Now‘ button or the settings but you can play around with it on your own. Alternatively, if you are using WordPress then you can use a Free WordPress Shopping Cart plugin which will automatically create a simple PayPal button for you. The Free WordPress Shopping Cart can be found here.

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]]> http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-create-a-simple-buy-now-button-with-paypal-673/feed 3 How to Turn Your WordPress Site into a Digital Photo Store and Sell Photos Securely http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-turn-your-wordpress-site-into-a-digital-photo-store-and-sell-photos-securely-654 http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-turn-your-wordpress-site-into-a-digital-photo-store-and-sell-photos-securely-654#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:59:24 +0000 admin http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/?p=654

Do you want to turn your wordpress site into a digital photo store so that anyone can purchase photo?Do you want to sell photo securely with an automatic system? In this video tutorial I am going to show you the easy steps to do it.

First, install the nextgen gallery plugin and WP eStore plugin on your wordpress site.

Now download the WP eStore Template File , unzip it and upload it to the ‘view’ folder of the NextGen gallery plugin directory.

After that you need to look at some basic settings of WP eStore plugin. The default settings are fine but you may want to customize some settings. I am showing you some basic settings to get you started with this.

Once you customize the WP eStore settings, you can go through the following four steps,

1. Adding a New Gallery

Simply create a new gallery and upload images(which you want to show the visitors as thumbnail, not the actual images) to that gallery. Once you are done, upload the actual images (which you want to deliver to your customers after they purchase) of those thumbnail (e.g. nature1.jpg, nature2.jpg) to any directory of you website ( I have not shown this in the video tutorial though).

2. Add Products to WP eStore

After you upload images to the gallery, add those images as products to WP eStore. Note that while adding images as products, you will have to specify the URL of the actual image in the “Digital Product URL” section( not the thumbnail image URL) even though I put the thumbnail image URL in “Digital Product URL” section as an example in this video tutorial. This way you can prevent people from stealing your actual photos. Suppose, your actual image is 800 x 600 pixels and its thumbnail version is 200 x 150 pixels. when anyone visits your photo product page, they might be able to steal the “thumbnail image” but not the actual one as only WP eStore plugin knows the specific URL of that actual image.

3. Creating a “Add to Cart” Button

In this step you need to create a “Add to Cart” button for the specific images.

4. Showing the Content of the Gallery on a Product Page

The last step is to show the content ( e.g. images) of the created gallery on a product page where your visitor will be able to purchase from. Once anyone purchases any image from your “Product” page seeing its thumbnail version, WP eStore plugin will send an email containing the encrypted download link of the actual image to that customer after the payment processing is done.

Once you are done with setting up all of them, you will be able to sell photos from your site.

The two plugins can be found here:

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Do you want to make a membership WordPress website? Are you trying to figure out how exactly you can set up a website where only the paid members will be able to see some specific content? If yes, then this post is only for you.

“How to Protect The Content of Your WordPress Blog” , a step by step video tutorial which will show you how to make a membership blog using WP eMember plugin. Anyone who even does not have previous experience of WordPress blogging will be able to follow it easily.

Some of the main features of this tutorial:

1. How to create membership level ( e.g. free memberhip, paid membership).

2. How to set protection to the premium content.

3. How to create a membership payment page where your members will be able to pay for subscription.

From my experience of blogging I have seen people buying plugins and start using it without following the documentation page. Consequently, they face different troubleshooting. I have made this tutorial for them so that they do not need to worry about set up at all. Just follow the steps and you will find it very easy.

If you find this tutorial helpful and want to set up a membership website, get the WP eStore and WP eMember plugin here

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Few weeks ago, someone sent me an email appreciating my ebook on  How to Sell ebooks from a WordPress Site. He has been looking for an easy solution to sell ebook from his WordPress blog for a long time and he found my ebook very helpful. Now, he wants to launch a new website to sell mp3 and he was wondering if I had a tutorial for mp3 selling scenario.

Hopefully this video tutorial on how to sell mp3 from your WordPress site will be of some help to him and other like minded readers of this site.

This step by step video tutorial covers the following five main sections:

  • Uploading and installing the required plugins
  • Adding/Creating a product for your mp3
  • Creating a simple sales page to display the track preview and the product
  • Creating a “Thank You” page
  • Plugin settings configuration

If you find this tutorial helpful and want to set up your site to sell mp3 then here are the links to the required WordPress plugins:

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Sometimes it is very confusing for those who want to install wordpress on their blog for the first time. Actually it is as easy as installing any other stuff but many people cannot figure it out and face trouble with that. In this post I have mentioned some basic tutorial which will help you get rid of all the trouble with wordpress installation.

Installing WordPress With FTP

This is a basic wordpress installation with FTP client.

Installing WordPress With HostICan

This video tutorial shows you how to install wordpress with hostican.

Installing WordPress With Media Temple

This video Tutorial shows you how to install wordpress with media temple.

Installing WordPress With DreamHost

This video tutorial shows you how to install wordpress with dreamhost.

Installing WordPress With Blue Host

This video tutorial shows you how to install wordpress with blue host easily.

For more useful information on how to install wordpress easily visit here

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]]> http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/easy-one-click-wordpress-installation-608/feed 2 How to Sell eBook from WordPress Site- The Ultimate Step by Step Guide to selling eBooks from Your Site http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-sell-ebook-from-wordpress-site-the-ultimate-step-by-step-guide-to-selling-ebooks-from-your-site-597 http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-sell-ebook-from-wordpress-site-the-ultimate-step-by-step-guide-to-selling-ebooks-from-your-site-597#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:31:21 +0000 admin http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/?p=597 1. Have you been trying to figure out how to sell eBooks online?

2. Are you looking for a fast and simple way to sell your eBooks online for some extra cash?

If this sounds like you then the “How to Sell eBooks from Your WordPress Site” eBook may be the right one to start with as it has step by step instructions.

Features

1. Complete step by step guide on selling eBooks from your wordpress site using the WP eStore plugin.

2. Easy explanation.

3. Direction with clear screenshot for every step.

Note: We don’t offer wp eStore plugin with this ebook as It’s a product of tipsandtricks-hq.com. You will have to purchase it from here.

Download the eBook

Download the How to Sell eBooks from WordPress site eBook and start selling ebook from your wordpress blog right now.

Download Now

You can also sell e-book using a free WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin. You can find it on my other e-book “How to Sell ebook From a WordPress Blog Using Free WP Shopping Cart Plugin“

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