How to Turn Your WordPress Site into a Digital Photo Store and Sell Photos Securely

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:59:24 +0000

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:

NextGen Gallery

WP eStore

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

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:47:45 +0000

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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