Start a demo E-Commerce site

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  pshep · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 6:22 pm

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  Hi there,
  I’m looking to start an online store but I wanted to create a demo/mock site before I let it go live. Where can I find the templates for this site? How would I go about creating this on wordpress…

  I would pay for a template but I don’t want to pay the monthly website fees until this biz is 100% a go by my backers.

  Thanks for any info!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 6:24 pm

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  There are also no monthly fees of any kind here so I’m unclear as to what you mean by that. Have you read these?
  http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ecommerce-is-now-available-on-wordpresscom?replies=1

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 6:27 pm

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  We cannot market any products we do not personally create or any services we do not personally provide on WordPress.com blogs. We do have an advertising program called WordAds, which you can read more about here: http://wordads.co/

  Advertising outside of WordAds at WordPress.com is not allowed. For full details, please see:
  http://support.wordpress.com/advertising/
  http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

  If you require e-commerce and the ability to run third party advertising you might be interested in a self-hosted (WordPress.org) installation. There are no restrictions on advertising if you setup a self-hosted WordPress.org blog instead of a WordPress.com blog, but there are some added responsibilities. Please see this link to learn about the differences:
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
  We have hosting recommendations at the following link if you are interested: http://get.wp.com/hosting/

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  pshep · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 9:10 pm

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  Thanks for the info!
  I’m basically looking to buy a template and create a mock-up online store that will go live eventually. I just don’t want it to go live at this moment until I have more products in stock.

  Once I have the products I will upgrade to wordpress business but not at the moment. Where could I find these templates?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 9:19 pm

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  You are talking about something that we cannot do any any WordPress.com blog. Read carefully http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  Every blog here at WordPress.com wearing the same theme is using the same underlying template because this is a multiuser blogging platform. We bloggers cannot access any templates at all and edit them. Only Staff can access templates and edit a every edit they make changes all blogs wearing the same theme. Are you clear on that?

  The only themes we can use on free hosted WordPress.com blogs like your blog are the themes found here http://wordpress.com/themes/

  There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we cannot:

  upload any third party themes,
  create child themes,
  create our own themes,
  edit templates,
  create our own layouts,
  or use stylesheets from other themes.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 9:20 pm

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  “any any” was meant to be “on any”