This is the Final Part of the 4 Part Series on Ministry eCommerce Solutions.
Looking for the other parts of the Series?
- Hosted Services and Carts
- Free Self-Hosted Solutions
- Self-Hosted Solutions for Purchase
- WordPress eCommerce Solutions
WordPress eCommerce Solutions
Last but certainly not least is a very short but concise list of WordPress-enabled eCommerce solutions (but this list is growing daily).
WordPress is most famously known as a blogging platform. But it’s quickly being used for much more than that. The customization capabilities on WordPress are legendary and it’s simplicity is astounding.
And, if you use one of these, you automatically get a blog for your ministry! Cool beans!
- eShop – Gives you the ability to add a PayPal powered store to your site. Allows one item per post or page.
- Quick Shop – A shopping cart for your WordPress blog’s sidebar.
- WP e-Commerce – A popular shopping cart option for WordPress blogs which makes it easy to sell things like ebooks, mp3s, clothing, crafts and more.
- YAK for WordPress – A simple shopping cart for WordPress that turns posts and pages into product codes and the item description.
CraftyCart – A simple and elegant theme for your use.
And that’s that. Whew! Let me know if I missed any!
thanks for another great and informative post!
Thanks josh, hope it's useful.
http://www.markettheme.com/tour/comparison – Market theme “is the revolutionary theme that transforms any standard WordPress install into a fully functional Ecommerce store complete with backend product administration.”
This looks really sweet, but probably only great for just a few products. Would not compare to the power of say Magento. Chuck Russell did an implementation of Magento for Church of the Resurrection that you can find here: http://thewell.cor.org/ Nice thing with Market Theme is you get a shop integrated with a blog theme.
Jason,
The Market Theme was actually one that I had forgotten to put on there! Thanks for putting that link for everyone to see, and yes, it's fairly limited in regards to functionality, BUT might just be the right thing for small ecommerce solution.