Set Up An Amazing E-Commerce Site in 30 Minutes with WordPress

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Step 1: Get a great product (you’d be surprised how many people forget this step…)

Step 2: Install WordPress

Step 3: Set up a static front page (Settings > Reading)… create a page called “front page” and a page called “blog”.  Head to the options menu and select the reading tab.  Change the “Front Page Displays…” options to ‘Front Page: front page’ and ‘Posts Page: blog’.  Now, add some awesome content to that front page about your product (please, please include some pictures).

Step 4: Set up another page and insert a full description of your product.  Get a PayPal account and use that to accept payments.

Step 5: Install the following plugins: Google XML Sitemaps, All-In-One SEO, cforms (at the minimum).

Step 6: Create a contact page to install that contact form – having a way for people to contact you that’s NOT email will get you questions you can answer to steer people to your product.

Step 7: Generate the XML sitemap in the options menu, then submit it to Google’s Webmaster Tools.

Step 8: The blog? Why, it’s used for press releases, testimonials, and any new content you get in.  The SEO will kick in as long as you use great keywords.

It’s not that hard to use WordPress to create great E-Commerce sites.  People get daunted or turned off by the fact that WordPress was created as blogging software, but with the new releases, it’s so much more.  And, if you’re really serious about getting some customers for your product, get a design professionally done.  After all, that is something I can help with, so of course I’d recommend it, but it’s just good sense to use a theme that is uniquely you.

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  • I have never tried using the static front page option in WordPress, but it does sound like a great way to create a sales page. In my case the professional designer sounds like a good idea too.
  • Great. One of my buddies recommended this post and it is simply awesome. Just what I wanted. i really wanted to implement a site for my home business. Thanks for the tutorial. appreciate it.
  • Thanks for the insight. I never really thought about using WP for a ecommerce site. But it seems like best of both worlds...Google loves blogs!
  • The timing of finding this post couldn't be better. I'm thinking starting an e-commerce site but hadn't decided the paltform. I'm new to wp but now I can see the possibilities. Thanks!
  • Great. I was looking for an article as such. Thanks for the information. I need to implement an E-Commerce site for our home business and this post is so useful. Thank you
  • Thankyou for this, I'll be following this when we move our site over to selling online in the next few months as I quite like Wordpress.
  • Wordpress for E-commerce? Hmmm, it's not so stupid :) But now I'm thinking of instaling WP on my site, to add some fresh content, do you think it's good strategy?
  • Really interesting post, we use wordpress more and more now as a CMS not just for blogs. It will be really interesting to see what wordpress is being used for over the next feew years!
  • Thank you for your article, thanks to you I installed Word Press and is now satisfied.
  • Nice post. Is there anywhere we can see a working example of where this has been implemented before trying ourselves?
  • Love your post!! Finally someone got it right!!! Would you mind if I put a blogroll link back to your post? :)
  • Awesome tip! I'm actually trying to learn more about using Word Press as a full-blown CMS for a dynamic web site - not just a blog.
    So, any information I can get on the subject is a big help.
    Thanks!
  • At my day job, we use MIVA and Magento for e-commerce sites. We like the vast array of third party modules and extensions available. But when we use PayPal for payments, we get a lot of pushback from site visitors — there is still a lot of prejudice against using PayPal.
  • I think the main thing is having a simple solution. If you use MIVA and Magento already, use that instead. If you don't, PayPal is easy to set up while you are building up a great base of users. Once you get a little more cash flow, switch to something more enterprise based.
  • At my day job, we use MIVA and Magento for e-commerce sites. We like the vast array of third party modules and extensions available. But when we use PayPal for payments, we get a lot of pushback from site visitors -- there is still a lot of prejudice against using PayPal. How do you deal with pushback on using PayPal with your customers?
  • As of yet, I have never really got to grips with Wordpress. In my defense however, I haven't really had much exposure to it. I think I'm definitely going to be downloading myself a copy and having a little play.

    I'll let you all know how I get on when I've made my sample site! Thanks for another great post.
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