The e-commerce plugin Shopp for WordPress seems to allow 2-tier product variation options. It used to be a bit buggy in the 2-tier product variation department, but I think that they’ve fixed those issues with the plugin now. Keep in mind that Shopp isn’t free, but in my opinion it’s worth every dollar. MarketPress is … Read more
Checkout Amember http://www.amember.com/p/. This is what WooThemes and a few other shops use. I’ve used it myself and it’s a quality product.
WooCommerce – Adding Custom Order Without No Product [closed]
WP E-commerce uses WordPress post objects to store products, so you don’t need any special functions or callbacks. query_posts will support everything you need, you can learn about the details of how everything is set up by reading about their database schema. Specifically, the SKU is in the wp_postmeta table with a meta_key of _wpsc_sku.
WooCommerce all the way: http://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/
What you are talking about is called Table Rate Shipping which will give you better control for e-commerce. There are some very good ecommerce solutions for WordPress including WooCommerce – free and has premium extentions like table rate shipping and themes – Sth African parent company with 30++ ecommerce extensions and 90+ WP themes Jigoshop … Read more
Pages are relatively more static. They don’t change much. Posts on the other hand do change on a regular basis. Just like any store, it’s best to use posts in this case. You can also create a custom post type and call it “ebooks”. It would be more appropriate, but posts can do fine.
You just have to go in settings-permalinks then you enter: /%category%/%postname%/ or if you choose something else keep it. Then just re-save all. Even if you have already the good setting, just re-save, and it will work.
You will want to create a new widget area or dynamic sidebar in your theme’s code. Justin Tadlock has a great tutorial about how to do this, but the basics boil down to this. Add the widget area declaration in your theme’s functions.php file: <?php add_action(‘widgets_init’, ‘my_register_sidebars’); function my_register_sidebars() { /* Register the ‘cartwidgets’ sidebar. … Read more
You Should look at dukapress it a fairly new E-Commerce plugin but its loaded with features and it uses Custom post types. and as for the relation part, i had that same challenge as your are having in developing a site for one of my customers, i needed to relate a CPT (custom post type) … Read more