25 February 2008
Set up your online shop with WordPress
Posted by Opinioneer under: On Wordpress .
That’s right. It is now possible to set up your online store with the popular platform we all love: WordPress.
I wrote a post yesterday about how people don’t think outside the box and don’t take advantage of WordPress’ full potential. As I wrote, AJ is one of only a handful of people who can look at WordPress and see it as more than just a blogging platform.
Well, before I had time to blink, AJ did it again, and this time pushed the envelope quite a bit. Thanks to AJ’s just released wpMarket theme, WordPress can now help anybody set up an online store in as much time as it takes to install WordPress.
To be precise, the theme works more like a product catalog, meaning it does not have shopping cart functions, but it does connect each product to a PayPal Buy button. I haven’t had time to play with the theme yet, but I can’t help to think that it could easily be converted to work with PayPal’s shopping cart and Voila!, you have a full blown online store without having to worry about the security aspect of shopping since PayPal runs the cart.
I am looking forward to seeing more of that!
