This is a continuation of series on “Different Uses of WordPress”. Previously I have covered:
- Part 1 – WordPress as Job Board and e-Commerce Site
- 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
- Part 6 - WordPress as eShop (Shopping Cart) and Social Bookmarking Site (you are here)
WordPress as eShop (Shopping Cart)
While WordPress has already been covered as eCommerce site in Part-1, this is a theme that is worth mentioning here. First of all, it’s free. Secondly, it comes with multiple free themes. Finally, its web2.0 features with ajax functions make it a better choice if you are setting up an eshop.
- ShopperPress is a fully featured shopping cart plugin for wordpress, suitable for selling any types of products, services, and digital downloads online. It has built in support for multiple payment gateways like paypal, 2checkout, worldpay, moneybookers etc allowing you to accept payments online.
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ShopperPress also comes with its own multiple elegantly designed free themes. Adding products to the shop is done through creating pages and posts in WP. Products can have multiple options (weight / sizes / brands etc).
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Price: Free
Website: http://www.shopperpress.com
WordPress as Social Bookmarking Site
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BmPress adds a social bookmarking capability to your WordPress blog. With this plugin you can create your own bookmarking service among your friends, community or company. Adding bookmarks will be through posts. It uses templates for displaying data, thus making it flexible in displaying your bookmarks in any way you want. See Demo Here.
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Price: Free
Website: http://www.bmpress.org
thanks for the info. Didn’t know ShopperPress existed.
Just curious, do you know how they make money from the venture? I don’t want to start using it and then they disappear.
Thanks
Each time I do think on how to make WordPress as other kind of platform instead of limiting it as blog platform. Now I got the answer. Thanks :D
Sounds great, thanks for sharing
You are getting really a revolution in WordPress blogging. You are working according to your site title. Carry on.
I like the shopperpress plugin. Tha fact that it is FREE is the clincher here! WordPress Rocks!
Great tools. Thanks for sharing.
damm. Its really different. Thats why i like it.
i also like that shopperpress plugin. Might be i can use it for my different project.
not suitable to me. Its great if someone want to sell something online.
Tha fact that it is FREE is the clincher here! WordPress Rocks!
i will download. As long as its free.
i have already used wordpress as a ecommerce site by modifying the presentation and theme. really its working like a rocket science.
I wouldn’t have even thought of using wordpress that way. Thanks for the plugins will check out the others in the series.
WordPress is really becoming all-pervasive. It is great to have a solid, dependable and backed-up framework like WP, and then hanging the required on the frame to give you your desired outcome. Developing from scratch just seems so expensive an unnecessary!
Hey Ades,
I am surprised to see the new avatar of the WP. It’s been wonderful as a blogging platform and I am sure will do wonders as a eshop site.
Thanks for the amazing information pal.
I have never used Shopperpress, But I have used wp e-commerce and eStore from http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ but it only does paypal intergration. For alot of smaller web stores this is great. Thank you.