Thinking of setting up a fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online through WordPress? WordPress is an elegant easy to be used as a skeleton for your own shop and hence saves a lot of work, because otherwise you would have to start from scratch.

If you’re looking for WordPress themes, plugins and tutorials that are designed specifically to be used to start up an e-Commerce website you’ve come to the right place. 

This week we gonna show you the ultimate WordPress e-Commerce free resources for WordPress e-Commerce themes, plugins and tutorials. Details next!

WordPress e-Commerce Plugins

1. WordPress e-Commerce Plugin (Free)

   The WordPress e-Commerce plugin is a state-of-the-art e-Commerce platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability.

   

2. Shopp ($55.00)

   Shopp is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog. Get your store up and running in minutes. Then, take it to the next level with the flexibility of Shopp’s customization tools.

   

3. Quick Shop (Free)

   Quick Shop adds a SideBar widget that shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to remove the items, not to mention a TinyMCE button to easily allow you to add products to your posts/pages.

   

4. YAK (Free)

   YAK is an open source shopping cart plugin for WordPress. It associates products with weblog entries, so the post ID also becomes the product code.

   

5. eShop (Free)

   eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features.

   

6. WordPress Shopping Cart ($49.99)

   WordPress Shopping Cart plugin gives you the ability to quickly and seamlessly integrate an online shop with a fully functional shopping cart interface into any Wordpress website.

   

7. FX Currency Tables (Free)

   FX-ForeignExchange 6 currency cross table plugin for Wordpress. This easy to use tool adds a horizontal 6 currency table to posts and pages, and the widget adds a 3 column portrait table to sidebars.

   

8. FatFreeCart Plugin and Sidebar Widget (Free)

   FatFreeCart Plugin allows you to add "Add to Cart" and "View Cart" buttons on your blog posts so that you can sell your products straight through your blog post.

   

9. PHPurchase ($49.00)

   PHPurchase is the WordPress shopping cart plugin that makes it simple to set up your WordPress store, track your orders, offer discounts, provide shipping options and integrate with payment gateways.

   

10. WP-Invoice (Free)

    WP-Invoice lets WordPress blog owners send itemized invoices to their clients. Ideal for web developers, SEO consultants, general contractors, or anyone with a WordPress blog and clients to bill.

    

11. WP Auctions ($29.99)

    WP Auctions is a WordPress plugin which enables you to auction anything on your Blog or WordPress powered website.

    

12. WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart (Free)

    WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart lets you add an ‘Add to Cart’ button anywhere on your blog. This plugin also allows you to add the shopping cart anywhere in a post or page or sidebar easily.

    

WordPress e-Commerce Themes

1. ShopperPress ($79)

   ShopperPress is a fully featured shopping cart theme for Wordpress, suitable for selling all types of products, services, and digital downloads online.

   

2. Crafty Cart (Free)

   Crafty Cart is a fresh flavoured retro style for selling t-shirts and handmade items, designed to be a starting point for your online shop.

   

3. The Ecommerce ($49.00)

   The Ecommerce theme allows you to set up and manage your own Wordpress-powered store online, and comes with a choice of six colour styles.

   

4. wpShop ($37)

   Wordpress as CMS for ecommerce shops. 2 in 1. A parent theme with 2 Localized (Translation-Ready) child themes!

   

5. StorePress WordPress Ecommerce ($49.00)

   StorePress is a premium WordPress theme, fully coded and packed with scripts that will allow you to transform your WordPress blog into a veritable e-commerce virtual store.

   

6. Kidz Store ($65.00)

   Kidz Store transforms your Wordpress install into a fully functional Ecommerce store complete with backend administration.

   

7. wpStore (Free)

   wpStore is a theme created especially for the best e-commerce plugin for wordpress WP e-Commerce.

   

8. Kelontong (Free)

   Kelontong is a great free WordPress e-Commerce Theme that Open Your Own Online Store with WordPress CMS designed by icreativelabs.com.

   

9. AppCloud (Free)

   AppCloud provides most of the needed features for an e-Commerce WP theme such as simple layout, clean and professional look, Javascript slideshow and etc.

   

10. Dangdoot (Free)

    DangDoot WordPress e-commerce theme is suitable mostly for major/indie music recording companies, bands, musicians, music products affiliates, music event organizers or simply online music stores.

    

WordPress e-Commerce Tutorials

1. Create an eCommerce Website with WordPress in under 5 minutes
   

   Learn how to create an eCommerce Website with WordPress in under 5 minutes with this video tutorial.

   

2. How to Sell MP3 from a WordPress Site

   This video tutorial on how to sell mp3 from your WordPress site will be of some help to him and other like minded readers of this site.

   

3. How To Sell Digital Or Non-Digital Products Online

   

4. Getting set up with the WP e-Commerce plugin: settings and configuration
   

   Learn how to set up the settings and configurations with the WP e-Commerce plugin.

   

5. WP e-Commerce SEO Tutorial

   Basic SEO tutorials for WP e-Commerce.

   

6. How to choose the Right Shopping Cart in Ecommerce

   A tutorial to help you select the proper ecommerce platform for your business and your marketing plan.

   

“Page Not Found 404 Error” is occurred when

• Visitors try to reach a non-existent page on your site
• Visitors have clicked on a broken link
• The page has been deleted
• Visitors have mistyped a URL

A 404 page is called that because in response to a request for a missing page, webservers send back a HTTP status code of 404 to indicate that a page is not found.

If you have not customize the error page, Google Webmaster has released an “Enhance 404 pages” widget for you to create a custom 404 page with helpful suggestions instead of error messages.

What It Does

“Enhance 404 pages” widget  adds a search box for your site with appropriate search suggestions and provides alternatives to incorrect URLs.

For an example. If a visitor misspell the URL http://www.example.com/news/recentt, “Enhance 404 pages” widget will display the following:

How To Implement It

1. Go to Google Webmaster Central
2. Select a site from the dashboard if you’re moderating multiple sites.
3. Clicking on Tools > Enhance 404 pages
4. Copy the JavaScript at the bottom of page, then paste it in 404.php

If you’re having a blog, I urge you to to custom your 404 pages with “Enhance 404 pages” widget for better user experience purpose.

I started this blog on January 2007. That was a time when most of my friends didn’t know how a blog is operated. Started up K-Director Dot Com wasn’t an easy task to me as there’s not much resources for me to learn how to begin a blog.

Researching and reading online had became my main resources to customize my blog and sharpen my writing skill. It was a tough path when everything was in dark, unsure, and scrabble.

Regardless you’re blogging for money or popularity, here’s some tips I believe they could show you a direction in blogsphere.

1. To Learn

Learning is a non-stop progress for a human. If you’re new in blogging, there are many things you should put some efforts for new knowledge. What should you know? A question you may doubt about.

1. How does a web hosting server work
2. How does a domain work
3. How to purchase a domain and web hosting
4. How to pick a good domain name
5. How to choose a suitable web hosting
6. How to moderate your cPanel
7. How to install WordPress
8. Customize WordPress theme
9. Install WordPress plugins
10. If you plan to make money from your blog, learn how does Google Adsense work
11. What is feed/RSS and how to burn your feed
12. How to use Google Webmaster and Google analytics to moderate your website

2. To Master

After you’ve a clear mind of what to learn, master them. Exercise of what you’ve learned and apply them on your blog. At the same time, start to blog and learn from the other bloggers. Writing skill is a key for better user experience.

1. Master how to apply text format – bold, italic, header, more
2. Master how to use images to beautified an entry.
3. Master how to write a good title.
4. Master SEO
5. Master good and original content
6. Master persistency
7. Master consistency
8. Master sharing is caring

3. Just Do It (Action)

Yes. For new startup bloggers, please settle down what is your preferably niche for your blog. Don’t be fickle minded and too greedy to write everything under sun.

On and off bloggers are not welcomed by Google Bot. So, just blog and write for good content.

4. Return

I believe after a blogger has goes through the above 3 steps, he/she will certainly will get some returns from blogging. It’s either returns in term of money or popularity.

Return always comes after efforts. This is for sure.

As a conclusion, Learn-Master-Action-Return is a natural cycle I have seen in blogsphere. How many blogs have been created every minute and how many blogs have been abandoned at the same time because don’t understand the cycle?

Previously I did mention Useful WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts to optimize WordPress bloggers’ writing speed. Today I gonna introduce some simple text codes for WordPress smiley faces in an entry.

WordPress emoticons could be useful in expressing an emotion for a sentence or paragraph. It normally enhances what a blogger is trying to express.

Here’s a list of text codes to turn text into a particular emoticon.

icon	text	text	full text	icon	full text
	“:)”	“:-)”	“:smile:”		“:lol:”
	“:D”	“:-D”	“:grin:”		“:oops:”
	“:(“	“:-(“	“:sad:”		“:cry:”
	“:o”	“:-o”	“:eek:”		“:evil:”
	“8O”	“8-O”	“:shock:”		“:twisted:”
	“:?”	“:-?”	“:???:”		“:roll:”
	“8)”	“8-)”	“:cool:”		“:!:”
	“:x”	“:-x”	“:mad:”		“:?:”
	“:P”	“:-P”	“:razz:”		“:idea:”
	“:|”	“:-|”	“:neutral:”		“:arrow:”
	“;)”	“;-)”	“:wink:”		“:mrgreen:”

Note that a spacing between word and code is required in order to display an emoticon. Have fun!

We all know that in order to optimize the production speed on digital work, we must learn how to fully utilize keyboard shortcuts for a particular software.

In my case, I use Windows Live Writer for my offline blogging client. It speeds up my blogging duration and provides me a flexible space for writing.

But for bloggers who are not willing to use an offline blogging client and insist that WordPress WYSIWYG editor is the best blogging medium, here’s some useful keyboard shortcuts that sharped your blogging skill. Detail next!

• Text Bold: Ctrl+b
• Text Italic: Ctrl+i
• Insert Link: Alt+SHIFT+a
• Blockquote: Alt+SHIFT+q
• Code: Alt+SHIFT+c
• Read More: Alt+SHIFT+t
• Unordered List (ul): Alt+SHIFT+u
• Ordered List (ol): Alt+SHIFT+o
• List Item (li): Alt+SHIFT+l
• Advanced Editor: Alt+SHIFT+v
• Publish the Post: Alt+SHIFT+p
• ins: Alt+SHIFT+s
• del: Alt+SHIFT+d
• Unquote/outdent: Alt+SHIFT+w
• Undo: Alt+SHIFT+u
• Redo: Alt+SHIFT+y
• Edit HTML: Alt+SHIFT+e
• Align Left: Alt+SHIFT+f
• Align Center: Alt+SHIFT+c
• Align Right: Alt+SHIFT+r
• Header Size: Ctrl+[number]

What is Blog Server Error – Server Error 32700

This error can be easily occurred by WordPress users who are using Windows Live Writer as offline blogging client. Technically speaking, it is a spam injection that trying to hijack your WordPress installation. Some WordPress files’ codes were modified by spammers.

Solution

To solve this problem, you should replace the infected files with original WordPress files (same version). The possible infected files are:

I have successfully recovered my WordPress installation after replaces the files above. Everything in Windows Live Writer is back to normal.

For more information about this problem, visit:

• http://42.kaizeku.com/wordpress/how-to-removed-wordpress-net-in-spam-injection-infected-by-mike-jagger-goro-class-mailphp/
• http://www.live-writer.net/problem-server-error-32700-occured/

Back to WordPress 2.6. Some interesting features have been included in WP 2.6 and I think it’s worth to have a mention.

Theme Previews

Template changes can never be so easy. WP 2.6 makes your templates or entries reflects immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages.

Word Count

Remind me of the my degree thesis.WP 2.6 now counts the words for us.

Image captions

A small caption will be placed underneath an embedded images.

I know video talks louder than words. This video will explain some of the new features better.

One more thing, I upgrade my WordPress blog for the sake of security issue too.

If you blog with WLW like me, this is an update you do want to miss it.

Latest version of WLW consists new features for video and image publishing enhancements, editing enhancements and user interface improvements.

Video and Image Publishing Enhancements

• Upload videos to Soapbox
• Image cropping and tilting
• Additional border styles
• Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects (like Slimbox, Smoothbox, and others)
• Support for centering images

Editing Enhancements

• Auto Linking
• Smart quotes/typographic characters
• Word count

(This image was edited in Windows Live Messenger)

UI Improvements

• Revised main toolbar
• Tabs for view switching
• Improved category control with search/filtering

[Download Windows Live Messenger]

Just 2 days after the release of WordPress 2.5 RC 2, WordPress 2.5 has officially been released. Along with the release is a new fresh look of WordPress website, WordPress.org.

Here is a link to WordPress 2.5.

Setting up WordPress for the first time

WordPress created a handy guide to see you through the installation process. It covers

* Things to Know Before You Begin Installing WordPress
* The Famous 5-Minute Installation
* Detailed Installation Instructions
* Common Installation Problems
* WordPress in Your Language
* Installing WordPress in Your Language
* How to Install Multiple Blogs
* How to Install WordPress Locally
* Getting Started with WordPress (much more installation info)

For upgrading, here is another complete guide to teach you step by step on how to upgrade your WordPress to version 2.5.

Are you going to upgrade your WordPress to version 2.5? Or you’ll be holding and wait for the next upgrade like most of the bloggers do all the time?

Well-organized Dashboard

Dashboard – Recent Comments & Incoming Links

Dashboard – Blog Stats

Cleaner UI in WordPress 2.5

WordPress 2.5 media uploader

Theme Compatibility

No reports of any broken themes was found in this upgrade. New optional capabilities like Gravatars was added.

Plugins Compatibility

Plugins that work with the admin may require updating to take advantage of the new. It’s always better to deactivate your plugins before upgrading for WP 2.5 RC 2 and let the built-in updater notify and give you one-click upgrades to plugins you have installed. Here is a list showing that which plugins work great and which don’t, compiled by the community.

Download and test WordPress 2.5 RC 2

If you’re interested in testing the latest WordPress version, you can download and install Release Candidate 2 of WordPress 2.5, and then, remember join the testers mailing list to report any bugs found.
My advice: BACKUP!

For those have upgraded their WordPress to version 2.3, you’ve got some little jobs to upgrade your WordPress to 2.3.1 for security and bugs fixed purpose.

New version of WordPress always contains a lot of bugs. That’s why WordPress 2.3.1 was released to fix over twenty bugs which include:

• Tagging support for Windows Live Writer

• Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than their WordPress Address

• Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries

• Link importer fixes

Janek Vind found an XSS problem that can be exploited if your php setup has register_globals enabled. If you don’t wish your website being hacked due to this reason, download 2.3.1 right now.

(Re)Building K-Director.com Blog – Phase 1

Appearance is the very first impression given to your visitors. That’s why I concentrated in re-designing K-Director.com in phase 1.

In phase 2, I have implemented Search Engine Optimization changes for K-Director.com. I will be talking more about the SEO plugins needed and elements to attract more traffics to this (your) blog.

Robots Meta Plugin Installed

This plugin allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds and handle unused archives in order to prevent indexing unnecessary pages.
If you have no idea on how to write a robot.txt, this plugin might be your savior.

After you install this plugin, you will find this code <meta name="robots" content="noodp,noydir" /> in your site’s source code.

[Download Robots Meta Plugin]

Added ‘Link’ Tag

A “link” tag defines a URL of some other related page. It does not display anything or cause anything to happen by itself, it’s just metadata defining some other related page.

The “rel” attribute defines the relationship of that page to this one.

The rel=”archives” is defining pages where the content on this page will be seen in the future.

To create the archive links in your own page, add this to your theme’s header.php file:
<?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly&format=link’); ?>

Installed All in One SEO Pack Plugin

This is a highly recommended plugin for your blog. It controls the 4 most important on-page ranking factors and how they are addressed – Titles, Descriptions, Keywords and Duplicate Content.

This SEO pack is designed to give you the best options out of the box. Moreover, it’s editable and you have the full control of it.

[Download All in One SEO Pack Plugin]

Reinstalled Similar Post Plugin

‘Related Post’ or ‘Similar Post’ is always another alternative to provide your readers a convenient method to read your other posts. It makes an infinity post circle for your readers to stay longer in your blog.

However, I faced some technical problems when installing “Related Post Plugin”. Therefore, I am now using “Similar Post Plugin”for the same purpose. Both of these plugins search your content’s keywords and then display similar posts which match your keywords.

(I have installed it but not yet really spend time on designing it to make it outstanding yet.)

[Download Similar Post Plugin]

Installed MyBlogLog and BlogRush

I have installed MyBlogLog and BlogRush at the bottom of this blog.
For your information, MyBlogLog is a blogger community that is based in part on interactions facilitated by a popular web widget that many members install on their blog while BlogRush is a “Cooperative Syndication Network” that rewards its users for their contributions to the network.

In coming phase 3, I will focus more on changes that monetize my blog.

OK. Less bullshit. Now talk about what I have done so far for my blog. If you’re going to start a new blog, this might be a good guide for you. At least, I re-design this site after 9 months of blogging. I know where to start correctly. It helps you to create a less mistake and more effective blog.

1. New Theme
As you see, this is a new theme for K-Director. This theme comes with 3 columns + 1 bottom row. At the top and bottom of sidebar, it merges 2 columns to 1 column. So I can insert a bigger size of widget up there and bottom there.
The font’s color, size and types have been changed too.
You can look for a free theme at http://themes.wordpress.net/.

2. New Tagline
I edited my tagline from “Download, Tech, Web, Make Money Online, Tips” to “Experience Web 2.0, Make Money Online, SEO, Blogging, Technology, Tips” and so does my home page title tag. The reason is simple. These tags are the contents I am going to focus on from now onwards. After 9 months of blogging, I finally know what I interested at. So, continue writing what I like is something can motivate me to maintain this blog.

3. New Google Custom Search
I am now using Google Custom Search. No more big big Google Search box at the top middle of my blog. The new Google Custom Search has been placed at a corner and I feel it fits my blog perfectly.
Google Custom Search allows user make money from its search result too. If you have no idea how to create a Google Custom Search for your blog, Dosh Dosh has a great post on how to set up Google Custom Search And Make Money.

4. New Comment Field
I installed WP-Grins plugin and TinyMCEcomments plugin to beautify my comment field. Now you can use a WYSIWYG editor on the comment field and at the same time, clickables smilies provided. And of course, you can subscribe my post comment via Subscribe To Comments plugin.

There’s still a lot to work at. Hopefully I can brief you more in phase 2.
If you have question about my rebuilding process, leave me a comment.

WordPress 2.2.3 is a security release and please upgrade it immediately if you don’t hope your site is hacked by someone.

The Simplest Ways

1. Download the changed files(zip format).

At the bottom of the page

2. Unzip it and copy these files.

3. Log into your ftp, paste these files at where you installed WordPress. Overwrite all the files.

-Fin-