Also, The ‘Wordpress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart’ plugin could be a quick and easy solution for some bloggers trying to sell products from their blog (I don’t want to spam by putting links but anyone interested can do a Google Search and find the plugin)

On this page: http://sitemanpro.com/pricing/

“Once I purchase, where will SiteManPro be hosted?

The software will be hosted on your server. This is not a hosted service where you have to pay a monthly fee. You buy the license once and your license expires never. ”

So even if I go out of business or ‘die’, your data remains with you..lol :)

Regds,
Deep

If you use a Plugin your data is your data (i.e the same reason you use wordpress as opposed to blogger).

Besides that I’d rather just have one site to manage everything i.e hello wordpress + plugins. Goodbye sitemanpro ejunkie and all the rest :P

Recently, I finished the first version of my software and immediately after launching it, the first upgrade includes the feature that will turn any wordpress blog into a ecommerce site instantly. No need to install a separate plugin in wordpress, and that means, no addition to possibility of hacking of your wordpress blog :)

It takes a very simple approach and you will be able to sell digital downloads products from your wordpress blog.

I have posted a short note about this feature on my blog that shows that what powerful tracking and testing options it can offer you, if you want to take a look at:
http://sitemanpro.com/post_blog/whats-next-turn-any-wordpress-blog-into-full-ecommerce-site/

I am going to implement this on my new blog at plrcheap and turn it into a plr store..incase you want to track the progress and see how it works.

Regds,
Deep

For images to work I had to embed them in DIV tages, with some minor CSS to control their layout. The image code would stay but the images refuse to show. Wordpress is quite buggy and unclean, but at least there is access to what’s under the hood.

There’s an online demo located here if you want to play around with it before you buy:
http://www.markettheme.com/demo

Basically, Market is a fully functional theme with a shopping cart system built right into it. Users can add various products to their cart and then when ready to checkout, the system sends them over to Paypal to complete the transaction.

It’s quick, easy to setup, and all inclusive.

It’s a great mtach for those who either aren’t technically savvy, or are simply in a hurry to get a store up and then go onto the next project.

We’ve recently uploaded our best version yet. WP e-Commerce 3.6.7 comes with so many nice features and user interface improvements.

The forums have been updated to use bbPress. And the documentation page has had a huge information injection. Plus one of the core team members has written a WP e-Commerce bible.

The coolest new features are Google Checkout LV2 Integration (no crud code gets through google so I have no idea what netpup is ranting about), USPS integration, and a nice new settings page. Oh and it is fully div based.

I’d also like to apoogise for netpups comment. All he does is Spam messages on other peoples sites about WP e-Commerce – he has an alteriar motive and we busted him on the wordpress forums :P

So go on. Get out there and give the new version of WP e-Commerce a shot.

Check out WP e-Commerce 3.6.7

It’s Interesting that you never see people complaining about poor support or inability to integrate the YAK plugin or the eShop plugin.

Of all the wordpress cart plugins available, wp e-commerce receives probably 99% of the complaints about their service, business model, poor communication, and so on.

Define ‘rip-off’ however you want – get into semantics about where the problem lies (most smart business people I’ve ever run across DON’T blame the customer in the way that these guys do)…the bottom line is even if its not a ripoff, its a bigger headache and more down time for your store than the available alternatives…for a product that, for all its bells and whistles, doesnt help conversion at all.

Seems okay from what I’ve seen of it.

http://www.shop-network.org/

It is NOT a rip off….people were complaining about the lack of support, but that is being worked out and is much better now…

Also, a lof of complaints can stem from one of the following:

1. People trying to hand code something into the plugin when they don’t know what they’re doing.

2. The theme that they are using for Wordpress isn’t compatible with WP Ecommerce.

Again, it’s not a rip off…I would highly recommend it for anyone wanting to open a store front with a Wordpress installation.

If you’re looking for a cart, I suggest giving it a try. I am not one of their team, but I did write a short seo manual for the cart for my blog readers as it does lack in this area.

They are ripping off thousands of people. Don’t be one of them.