WordPress eCommerce » wordpress NextGen Gallery http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com Wordpress eCommerce Plugins Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:48:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to Create an Amazing Photo Store on Your WordPress Site http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-create-amazing-photo-stores-on-your-wordpress-site-1040 http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-create-amazing-photo-stores-on-your-wordpress-site-1040#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 06:46:47 +0000 admin http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/?p=1040

If you have read my other post on how to turn your wordpress site into a digital photo store you should already know how to integrate Nextgen gallery plugin with eStore to sell photos from your blog. Nextgen gallery plugin allows you to show all the photos in a nice grid view on a page or post. But you just don’t want to create a photo gallery for other people to view. You also want to sell the photos. That is why you need to have a shopping cart plugin like eStore who offers integration with nextgen gallery plugin.

From my experience, sometimes I’ve heard users having trouble with integration. It’s fairly easy if you follow the detailed documentation.

Most of the time the issue was -

1. Rendering of template gallery-wp-eStore.php failed.

2. gallery is not loading on the page or post.

And the reasons for this issue -

1. In nextgen gallery and eStore integration we need to upload a eStore template file in the “view” directory of nextgen gallery plugin which is not there.

2. After you update a new version of nextgen gallery plugin you need to put that tempalte file back to the “view” directory again.

3. Typing mistake in the shortcode or using wrong shortcode for showing gallery.

Once you successfully integrate nextgen gallery with eStore you will be able to show “Add to Cart” button bellow each image which will look similar like below -

But what if you want to show the gallery in a nicer way? you can’t get anything better than the above display with this integration as nextgen gallery and eStore is two different plugins and eStore can’t change the way nextgen gallery displays the gallery. Well, we can make eStore alone display the images in a fancier way. Lets have a look at the following product display -

Nature Image1
Price: $9.99
Nature Image2
Price: $8.99
Nature Image3
Price: $7.95
Nature Image4
Price: $10.78
Nature Image5
Price: $12.56
Nature Image6
Price: $13.44

You can show the above image display using the fancy6 shortcode of eStore which is nicer than the previous display with nextgen gallery plugin. Now if you can show the photo products in a beautiful grid view then why wouldn’t you use only one plugin? you won’t have to bother about any integration and also you will get a good display with payment button.

How to Implement the fancy display

1. First, upload and install eStore plugin.

2. Now configure the basic settings of eStore (On your dashboard go to eStore->Settings)

4. Go to “categories” under eStore and create a new category. Remember the ID of the category you just created.

4. Go to “Add/Edit product” under eStore and enter all the product details. Save the product. In this way create as many products you want. Dont forget to enter a Thmbnail image URL for the product (this thumbnail will be shown with each product). Also you need check the Product Category while creating each product ( which category you want to include this product to).

5. Now create a post or page and use the following shortcode for showing products from a particular category with fancy6-

Where id=The ID of the category you created before, style=The fancy display type

So the above shortcode will show all the products from category id 1 with fancy display 6

You also need to place the following shortcode on this page to show the items in the cart once Add to Cart button is clicked-

Please note that you will need the free extra shortcode plugin to use this fancy display( which is used with eStore plugin to enhance the different fancy displays). You can get both the plugins from here:

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]]> http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-create-amazing-photo-stores-on-your-wordpress-site-1040/feed 5 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.

There is a template file called “gallery-wp-eStore.php” in the view directory of the eStore plugin. You need to upload it to the ‘view’ directory of the NextGen gallery plugin.

After that you need to look at some basic settings of 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 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 eStore

After you upload images to the gallery, add those images as products to 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 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, eStore plugin will send an email containing the encrypted download link of the actual image to that customer after the payment processing is done.

Alternate Method

If you have thousands of photos that you don’t have time to configure manually this method will be suitable for you. In this method you need to configure only one product in eStore and you will be able to use that product as a template for other photos.

How to Implement The Alternate Method (For Buy Now button)

There is a template file called gallery-wp-eStore-auto.php in the view directory of the eStore plugin. You need to upload that file to the view directory of the nextgen gallery plugin (nextgen-gallery/view).

1. Configure a product in eStore for a photo like the first method. Note the ID the product you just created. Now go to eStore->Settings->3rd Party Integration tab. Under the NextGen Gallery Settings section there is a field Product ID to be Used as a Template. Enter the ID of the product (that you want to use as a template) here. Update the settings.

2. Go to Add Gallery/ Images under Gallery and create a new gallery (If you haven’t created one already). If you have already created a gallery then go to Manage Gallery. Start uploading images.

3. Now Go to a page/post and use the following shortcode to show the photo gallery with Buy Now button -

Replace the Gallery-ID with the actual ID of the gallery (e.g – 1 or 2)

Photo display with Buy Now button

 

How to Implement The Alternate Method (For Add to Cart button)

There is a template file called “gallery-wp-eStore-auto-addtocart.php” in the view directory of the  eStore plugin. You need to upload that file to the view directory of the nextgen gallery plugin (nextgen-gallery/view).

1. Configure a product in eStore for a photo like the first method. Note the ID the product you just created. Now go to eStore->Settings->3rd Party Integration tab. Under the NextGen Gallery Settings section there is a field Product ID to be Used as a Template. Enter the ID of the product (that you want to use as a template) here. Update the settings.

2. Go to Add Gallery/ Images under Gallery and create a new gallery (If you haven’t created one already). If you have already created a gallery then go to Manage Gallery. Start uploading images.

3. Now Go to a page/post and use the following shortcode to show the photo gallery with Add to Cart button -

Replace the Gallery-ID with the actual ID of the gallery (e.g – 1 or 2)

Add to Cart photo display with products added to the cart

 

Once you are done with setting up any of the above methods, you will be able to sell photos from your site.

The two plugins can be found here:

  • WP eStore

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How-To-Use-NextGEN-Gallery-Plugin-With-Your-WordPress-Ecommerce-Site-And-Get-More-Out-Of-It

NextGEN Gallery is a popular wordpress plugin which allows you to manage and display images on your site with a Flash slideshow. In this article you will find some good tutorials on how to use this NextGEN Gallery plugin easily. I have also mentioned some other plugins that can be used to get more out of  it.

This video tutorial shows you how to use the Nextgen gallery plugin with wordpress easily.

This is another tutorial which shows you how to order images in the NextGen Gallery wordpress plugin.

This is a nice tutorial which shows you how to add images to your website by using NextGEN Gallery.

Following plugins can be useful to use on your wordpress blog along with NextGen Gallery-

1. NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget

With this widget you can set the number of galleries you want to show.

Visit the widget page here

2. NextGEN Gallery Search

You can search within your galleries with this plugin.

Visit the plugin page here

3. NextGEN Custom Fields

With this plugin you will be able to add custom columns to the NextGEN Gallery.

Visit the Plugin page here

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