how to add plug-ins and get woo commerce working and installed
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hi there, would like to add woo- commerce onto on of my blogs to start selling BBQs, but don’t have the plug-in listed on my dashboard menu. How cab i add the plug-in bit to starting adding plug ins
would be great if anyone can help so i can get selling bbqs again…
cheers
Conan
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Hi there,
Woo Commerce can be run only on self hosted WordPress.ORG installs only. You cannot run woo commerce on any WordPress.COM hosted blog and the latter are the only blogs we support here. Learn about the differences here. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ -
WordPress.com blogs cannot be equipped for eCommerce transactions unless they have the $299. per year annually renewable Business upgrade. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ecommerce-is-now-available-on-wordpresscom?replies=1
See here for ecommerce details http://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/
Otherwise, provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a service that you personally provide you have two options.
(1) Know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/(2) If you set up an Ecommerce site somewhere else online you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links
Some bloggers create a contact form and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/The only advertising program at WordPress.com is called WordAds and it’s for blogs on their own domains.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
http://en.wordpress.com/apply-for-wordads/Advertising outside of WordAds at WordPress.com is not allowed.
http://support.wordpress.com/advertising/ Here’s what gets a blog suspended:
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/1. WordPress.com allows bloggers to insert text affiliate links within post and page content to most third-party affiliate programs, provided they are not the primary content of the site in question.
2. Image affiliate links in posts and pages and any banners, affiliate links in sidebar or footer widget areas, are still considered to be advertising and are not allowed on WordPress.com blogs.
A self-hosted WordPress site might be right for you. WordPress.org offers free software that you can install on a web server. You can upload and install themes and plugins, run ads, conduct ecommerce and edit the database. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
NOTE: Aside from the plugins I linked to for Ecommerce blogs with the Business upgrade only, there is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.COM blogs, and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/ -
thanks for the quick reply…
how does the wordpress.com business compare with woo-commerce on a self hosted wordpress.org site ? are there nice simple options to add products? i’m using inbalance theme- is it easy to keep the same theme or does it all need changing ?
i;m guessing you pay for the support on .com and on .org its cheaper and more up to you to work it out ?
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if i buy the wordpress.com e-commerce can i still use my existing wordpress.com imbalance theme and would all the contents transfer, images etc? or would the website need making again from scratch ?
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If you purchase a Business upgrade for your WordPress.COM blog you are not required to change themes and your content stays exactly where it is now.
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there,
forgot to ask before i bought it- can i use my paypal account to accept payments on this?
whats the difference between shopify and ewcid?
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See here for ecommerce details http://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/
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