Comments on: Turn Your WordPress Blog into an eCommerce Site

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:09:52 +0000

In reply to Ivan.

Interesting, Ivan. 100K products sure is a lot. Maybe a static dump of each page would have worked?

I like the idea of splitting between a shopping cart and a WordPress part. Good idea.

By: MK Safi

MK Safi — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:58:33 +0000

In reply to Rob.

Rob, there are two plugins that do what you want. ShopperPress and WP Zon Builder.

WP Zon Builder is a plugin made specifically for building Amazon affiliate stores with a built-in shopping cart. ShopperPress, on the other hand, is not specific to Amazon affiliate stores only. It’s rather a complete ecommerce plugin that happens to handle Amazon affiliate stores very well. You can get more details about Amazon plugins with built-in shopping cart here.

Good luck with your affiliate store!

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:38:45 +0000

Turn WordPress into an ecommerce site is good. Snce WordPress is good for SEO. But WordPress is resource consuming. If you have only 500 products, it’s okay. But in my experience, i tried to use WordPress to host more than 100K products. And the result is WordPress couldn’t handle it. And took more CPU load. I suggest that using other natural ecommerce CMS is better to handle your ecommerce site, and have WordPress to do your sales page or official blog.

Regards

Ivan

By: Rick LaPoint

Rick LaPoint — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:44:53 +0000

In reply to Rob.

Hi Rob,

Check http://www.wpzonbuilder.com for the plugin I use.

See my article in the ComLuv link below for an examination of two sites using it. One is mine, and the other is owned by a buddy.

Hope that helps.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:51:38 +0000

What I’m really interested in – and struggling to find is an eshopper plugin or template that allows Amazon affiliates to add multiple items to their basket before they leave the site to checkout on Amazon. They all seem to leave my site when any single item is added to the basket. Yes, I know that all purchases made during that visit will earm me money as the affiliate referrer but I feel that the sudden jump to amazon makes the customer feel that they have been slightly duped by a gateway site.