- Part 1 – WordPress as Job Board and e-Commerce Site (you are here)
- Part 2 - WordPress as Review Site and Portal
- Part 3 - WordPress as Discussion Forum and Membership Site
- Part 4 - WordPress as Social Network Site & Contact Manager
- Part 5 - WordPress as Newsletter Mailing Script and FAQ Management System
WordPress is evolving from just being a blogging platform to more advanced systems, proving my personal theory that it will become full fledged CMS in the near future.
Thanks to its simple and easy theme structure, now people are coming up with different types of themes that can do specific functions. These themes are not just ordinary themes that have the creatives (graphics and designs) only, but they can be considered a whole system of their own – because they come with their own plugins included. These plugins do theme related functions, for example an eCommerce theme would have a Shopping Cart plugin of its own, making it easy for you to setup an eShop.
Below we will be looking at two different themes that use WordPress as their platform, namely; using WP as a Job Board and using WP as an eCommerce platform.
WP Theme as Job Board
JobPress is a wordpress theme that turns your website into a perfect working job board. It comes with its own payment system as well, you just have to insert your paypal email in the settings and you are ready to accept payments. According to the description, it does accept Credit Cards as well.
Price: $59 for Single License, and $149 for Developer License
URL: http://www.dailywp.com/jobpress-wordpress-theme/
Live Demo: http://www.dailywp.com/jobpressdemo
WP Theme as an eCommerce Shop
Market Theme transforms any standard WordPress into a fully functional eCommerce store complete with backend product administration. It utilizes its own ajax shopping cart and uses PayPal as a payment gateway system. Adding product is simple as well, it generates a sub-tab “Add Product” under “Write Post”.
Price: $55 for Single License, and $150 for Developer License
URL: http://www.markettheme.com
Live Demo: http://www.markettheme.com/demo
This is great theme for recruitment consultancy. These companies are spending thousands of dollars for their online recruitment system. I am damn sure it will help them a lot to manage data.
Wow. I had no idea that WordPress had such power. I’ve been using WordPress as a CMS for the past year and love it. But these developments take WordPress to a whole new level. This is amazing.
I’m bookmarking this, I’ve been thinking about an ecommerce site and this would be perfect, thanks!
WordPress is great. I’ve been using wordpress for classified ads blog
Wow, wordpress is rapidly becoming a widely used platform. Which proves how versatile it is.
What WordPress (templates) offer is quite a bargain if one has to look at custom web development….
wow. with wordpress. we can do many thing. :)
The job board example is really cool. I’ve seen WordPress used for amazing things, and these just keep adding to the long list of uses.
This make me becomes wordpress lover. we can use wordpress for many things.
i am constantly amazed at the flexibility of wordpress — i’d heard of it being used as a CMS (the way one of your commenters is already doing) but to see it with these specialized plugins is helping me to really “get” the power of the platform. i’m a relative newbie to wp, but i am hooked. no more typepad, blogspot, whatever for me!
wait. We really can do something like this? I never know about it. Haiya..
WP constantly amazes me and what people can do with it outside of the WP.org community there’s an entirely new industry built on WordPress.
Very useful post for me, looking for a jobs board theme.
I have a tutorial for installing and setting up the eShop plugin in at this address.
http://www.blogcortex.com/?p=197
Enjoy!
I agree that wordpress is a great option for CMS, i am almost tempted to start making corporate websites with WP as the CMS, it just seems to make sense and allows noob users to add articles.
This is one excellent looking theme. It really does have some nice features. Great work!
Is there actually some kind of real shop plugin available for wordpress like there are for Joomla for example?
Paypal & wordpress is a great combination. Neither do you need any complicated payment gateway nor any high level programming skills.
I always use wordpress for blogs but never for eshop thanks for the post , will look into it to see if its better than joomla for eshop
Nice theme. Word press is the most popular CMS platform. Thank you for sharing.
Great themes. I thought WordPress is solely for Blogging. It’s good to know that there are other uses for WordPress. The themes look incredible. I will definitely check them out. Thanks for sharing.