I try to keep up with the latest news going on with WordPress and all the new cool tools and Plugins available for WordPress. As you know I promote WordPress as the first and often the only system needed for a person to create their online business.
Last week a client asked about building a shopping cart into their new WordPress blog to add music and other artwork. So, I just “Googled” on the term WordPress Shopping Cart and found a great solution.
I downloaded the free e-Commerce Plugin from Instinct in New Zealand, installed it to my client’s new blog that is under construction and now I’m learning how to build a shopping cart using this new tool. That is, it’s a new tool to me. Instinct has been working on this for 3-4 years and they say that thousands of WordPress sites are using it. They further say that sites with just a few products up to 10,000 products can use their plugin.
Here are a few sample sites using this e-Commerce plugin for WordPess.
- www.seekanddestroyclothing.com
- www.orangutan-appeal.org.uk
- www.tabletalk.com
- www.imagecubes.com
- www.edenripley.co.nz
I hope to have some products added into my client’s new blog in the next few days as soon as I finish looking over the setup procedure and work with them to get a PayPal account running that we can link to. When the site is live I will update this posting with a link and let you know how the installation and configuration went.
In the meantime I wanted to post this and see what feedback my readers might have about this product. If you have used this e-Commerce plugin or other shopping cart plugins for WordPress please post your comments here.
If you are looking to create your own WordPress Blog and need a shopping cart solution that is easy to install and work with, let me know.
You might also want to have a look at Shopp. It’s a new e-commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress that is still in beta at the moment. You can still apply for the beta to try it out though. It seems to be gears more for developers that want to be able to fully customize and integrate the plugin with their WordPress theme, but it still looks easy enough to get going.
Yet another great plugin by the developers of wordpress and the people dedicated to making the wordpress community better. I have seen this one before – but have toyed with http://www.fatfreecart.com/wpplugin.html before – not that we were very impressed with it. Will take a closer look at the free e-Commerce Plugin from Instinct today. Thanks for the link.