So basically, I’ve never found an ecommerce solution yet that just works. And I’ve tried a lot of them. They often require the cusom creation of templates, as the shops css and the theme css never seem to play right. Everything always looks pretty crappy for me. Now that being said, the easiest I’ve dealt … Read more
That’s all possible with WordPress, and you have several choices. E.g. WP E-Commerce or Jigoshop etc Scale-wise, it depends exactly what you’re wanting in terms of scale, initially and eventually. WordPress can be manipulated to scale quite far, you can buy a bigger server, shift a large chunk of your content and pages into the … Read more
When I was deciding, I compared WooCommerce, Shopp, Cart66, WP-eCommerce and WooCommerce, and I found WooCommerce to be the most “WordPress” in its code and to be the most extendable/flexible. Products are custom post types, so you can leverage everything you already know about them, etc. It’s initially offering was really lacking in features like … Read more
You can do two things: Create a sitemap.xml excluding the pages you just mentioned. Create a robots.txt which disallows the Google robot from looking at certain files: To exclude all robots from parts of a server: User-agent: * Disallow: /product-page/checkout This is not WordPress specific. HTH
I would say for a small store stick with the basics, PHP 5.2.4+ and MySQL 5+ some individual plugins may require higher versions of PHP or MySQL. I don’t think you would necessarily need a VPS depending on traffic. My general rule start small, if you grow, great, most host (and all good host) make … Read more
have a look on here for e-commerce and then go install WooCommerce or GetShopped Thi should be easiest and you wont need to do much development …. as you want to ‘contact to order’ This might also help: http://wordpress.damien.co/2012/07/choose-the-right-wordpress-e-commerce-solution-for-you/
// Out of stock for general woocommerce – might help someone function product_in_stock($post, $product) { if (!$product->is_in_stock()) { $STOCK = TRUE; return $STOCK; } else { return false; } } function check_if_out_of_stock(){ global $post,$product; $stock = product_in_stock($post,$product); $output=”<div class=””; $output .= $stock?”instock”:”outofstock”; $output .= ‘”>’; echo $output; } add_action( ‘woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item’, ‘check_if_out_of_stock’); function close_out_of_stock(){ echo “</div>”; … Read more
I don’t know of a phone number but you can contact WooThemes directly with pre-sales questions. Go to the site and fill out the contact form. There are any number of consultants/developers who’d be able to help with specific questions. In fact if you have specific questions you can ask them here in the appropriate … Read more
So there are a few things you’ll want to take a look at… And let me clarify the behavior you’re seeing too… First, are you saying that when you actually make code changes to the wpsc-default.css file and save them, when you inspect the code after you refresh the page, your changes are not there? … Read more
not really php solution, but that’s how I solved this problem. I deactivated phone and email fields from Store Settings -> Chekout and created custom ones. so now when I go to orders it displays in like Additional Checkout Fields Phone: Email: