Adding a PayPal button to your site is one of the easiest (and fastest) ways to take payments or collect donations with your WordPress installation.
In today’s Daily Tip, we’ll show you how to quickly add a PayPal button to your site using the standard post/page editor.
To start, you’ll need a PayPal account. You’ve got one of those right? If not, head over to PayPal and get started – it’s free!
Anyone running an e-commerce site knows the challenge of finding a good merchant gateway; one that provides an efficient checkout process, a quick transfer of funds, and the ability to plug it easily into your website without the need for lengthy code or expensive developers.
eCommerce is big business these days, with thousands of people using WordPress to sell their goods. Of course, this is matched by plugins, including our own MarketPress . This week’s showcase looks at retail themes, concentrating specifically on themes that have been created to sell actual, physical goods (as opposed to virtual stuff like themes or downloads). Nowadays it’s often the case that meatspace shops need an online equivalent and luckily there are theme designers making beautiful themes that are perfect for the job. Here are ten of my favorites:
The Furniture Store
Demo | Purchase
Bangkoo
Demo | Purchase
Simple Shopper Theme
Demo | Purchase
e-Commerce
Last week we looked at how to make a basic FrameMarket Child. This week I want to show you all how to make a child theme with different presets for other users of your Multisite network to use. This means you can offer different looks to the shops in your network while maintaining control over the design.
The first few steps are exactly the same as last week:
1. Install FrameMarket
Follow the WPMU DEV installation instructions.
2. Create a Theme Folder
I’m calling mine “multimarket.”
3. Copy the Files
Navigate to framemarket>themes>gridmarket. Copy everything from that folder into your multimarket folder.
4. Edit style.css
In this week’s tutorial we’re going to take a look at how you can make your very own child theme for FrameMarket. The problem with a lot of WordPress eCommerce plugins is that they can be difficult to style. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to develop your own stylish eCommerce website. That’s why WPMU DEV developed FrameMarket, and its child, GridMarket. We’ll be releasing more child themes for FrameMarket but if you want to develop your own child, I’m going to show you how.
We’re always interested in listening to what our members have to say and there were some pretty quick requests after the release of FrameMarket and GridMarket last week. We’ve had users keen to use FrameMarket for their multisite installation, as well as lots of people diving straight in to create their own child themes.
Tammie, our designer, took those comments on board and has updated both FrameMarket and GridMarket to include the user requests.
FrameMarket New Features
Show either global products or just the main shop on the front page of Multisite installations
Independent color settings for child themes with individual prefixes
WPMU DEV Members have been so excited by the recent update to MarketPress. Once of the great new features is that you can now sell digital products through your eCommerce store. Today I’m going to show you how you can easily sell your own WordPress Themes using MarketPress with our brand new FrameMarket Child theme, GridMarket (yes, I know – how many times can you get the word “Market” into a sentence?)
This is pretty darn easy to do so it’ll be a quick one.
1) Install MarketPress
2) Install FrameMarket
FrameMarket is a brand new Parent Theme constructed to work with WPMU DEV’s powerful eCommerce Plugin – MarketPress. As a Parent Theme it comes packed full of awesome features that you can build your very own child theme for. It’s flexible, stylish and easy for all of you themeheads to customize. It’s for all those lovers of MarketPress who have been enjoying our eCommerce plugin but who want an easy way to build a site around it.
Features
Show Products on the Front Page
Menu Navigation
Custom Product Comment Form
Featured Images
Shopping Cart Integration
Translation Ready
But what would a Parent Theme be without a Child?
Yes, that’s right, it’s the one you’ve all been waiting for – MarketPress 2.0 has been released. Before you start weeping with joy let’s take a look at some of the great new features of MarketPress.
So what’s new?
Global Cart
One of our most requested features is finally here. You can now have a Global Cart across your WordPress MultiSite network. This means you can make your very own Etsy and more. Set up your Multisite network, give your customers sites that they can sell their stuff through and then take a cut “drool”:
Downloadable Products
MarketPress – WordPress eCommerce from WPMU DEV has just been updated. As well as some minor bug fixes we’ve now included manual payment gateways. This means that your customers can now pay you using methods such as cash, check and EFTs.
To set up your new manual payment gateway, go to the MarketPress settings in your dashboard:
Single Site – Products > Store Settings > Payments
Multsite – Network Admin > Settings > MarketPress
Here you can decide which payment method(s) you want to accept:
And then you can give your customers detailed instructions about how they can get that all-important money to you:
