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If you want to build blogs or websites then you must seriously consider using Wordpress to do this, but don’t forget to get some free Wordpress training before you start.

There are many free tutorials and in some case whole websites that provide free training in Wordpress including the latest version 2.7

Wordpress is just so easy to setup, use and maintain that you would be crazy not to use and of course this software is also Free!

To be honest there really is no reason to pay for your Wordpress training as there is just so much available on the Internet – just go into Google and search for ‘Free Wordpress Training’ and you will see what I mean.

As well as a great deal of text-only tutorials there are many other training resources available for Wordpress, including step-by-step guides with images to clearly define what you need to do, many videos on how to configure the software and write content for your posts and pages and recommendations on the best plugins and free themes to use for your own websites or blogs.

Wordpress is free open source software, originally developed as a blog platform, but now after much development and recent enhancements it has become the ultimate website builder and content management system combined.

There really is nothing to beat it and thousands of bloggers and website builders have already created a huge number of sites using this great software. And of course most of them will have had some training of some sort before they started.

Like all software though you will do a lot better and progress a lot quicker if your train yourself first and I must say that the learning curve really is not that steep and even for the novice or non-technical person getting to grips with this software is a quick, easy and fairly painless process.

Even if you have never used online software before you will be able to use this website builder – it really is no harder than using Microsoft Word or Excel.

Always pick the right training for what you want to achieve with your site. There is so much free Wordpress training available that it may be difficult to know where to start.

Initially I would recommend that you go to Wordpress.com and setup up a free blog. This will let you play with the software for free while you follow whichever training course you select. This no cost solution is an easy and quick way to get up to speed and test out what the training tells you to do.

The easiest parts to learn will be how to write your content and how to set out the layout of your new site. This will mainly include writing posts and selecting a theme that you like from the many that will be made available to you. Once you have written a few posts you will soon get the hang of it and before long you will become a proficient blogger.

The more difficult stuff comes when you want to have your own Wordpress website using your own domain name at your web host. This will require installing the software at your web hosting company and creating a self-hosted Wordpress site. You will then also have to decide which plugins to use and how to make the correct settings for you site.

Once again if you get the right free training before you reach this stage you will be all set for an easy and fast track path to creating your own website or blog with Wordpress. Then before you know it you will become a website builder, webmaster and blogger all rolled into one!

Did you know there is a new open source community project underway called the WordPress Plugin Database, located at wp-plugins.net, which is a user-friendly web site with about 2,500 WordPress plugins and counting?

”The WordPress Plugin Database is a categorized list of WordPress plugins, complemented by a WordPress Plugin Manager that allows one-click installs,” say the database developers. “For users, wp-plugins.net provides a browseable list of plugins, and RSS feeds you can subscribe to in order to get notified of new plugins and updates. For developers, wp-plugins.net makes it easy to publicize your plugin and keep users informed of new versions.”

As for us everyday non-developer WordPress fanatics who are constantly searching for cool new plugins to make our site attract visitors and earn some money, the WordPress Plugin Database is populated with plugins that can help generate web site traffic to your blog, sell your ebooks, share web site links, podcast your message, offer a public forum for returning visitors, and fight spam in the process.

Below is a short list of free plugins I discovered in this new database that can drive traffic to your blog, sell terrific products, and keep visitors on your site for a while – the perfect monetization strategy for every blogging entrepreneur.

Would you like to add a Public Forum to your blog? Simple Forum is a free plugin that is described as a “simple and straightforward forum that does the sort of stuff a forum is supposed to.” Simple Forum currently has 71 features you can use to develop a growing community of returning visitors who are encouraged to speak to each other, and who share common interests with you, the brilliant blog owner and forum manager expert. Search engine spiders love the fresh content provided by a community forum. Simple Forum can support your forum member’s comments in 17 languages: stuff.yellowswordfish.com/simple-forum/

Would you like to monetize your blog by selling your products and services with a WordPress shopping cart? The free WP eCommerce Lite shopping cart plugin is described as “an industrial strength, elegant, easy to use, fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online.” You can upgrade to the eCommerce Gold plugin for just $15. If you don’t have any products to sell, you can set up this shopping cart to sell products offered by Amazon.com, Art.com, and so on: instinct.co.nz/?p=16

Reciprocal link directories create backlinks to your site that helps improve your site’s search engine ranking, and most shared link directories are not free. Plus, most blogs don’t offer a shared link directory. The free WP Link Directory is described as “the first and the only one link directory plugin on the Internet for WordPress admin to store and maintain a set of links in classified categories.” This link directory plugin can match your blog theme: alectang.com/wordpress-link-directory/

Podcasting is a web site traffic generation phenomenon that has seen over 6 million people download MP3 podcasts. That’s not including the millions of people who prefer to listen without downloading. Here’s an idea. Why not record your blog articles as a podcast, and then submit your articles to podcast directories? Even if you don’t like the sound of your voice, there are software programs online that you can use to speak your written words with a more pleasing sound.

PodPress is a free plugin described as “a dream plugin for Podcasters using WordPress,” and “a full-blown Podcasters Plugin for WordPress.” With Podpress, you can post a podcast along with your article for visitors to download, or listen to without downloading. Why not interview an expert in your niche by telephone, and post your conversation as a podcast with your article? mightyseek.com/podpress

And finally, every high-traffic blogger would love to find a way to eliminate spam. Spam Karma 2 (SK2) is a free spam fighting plugin developed by the WordPress Plugin Directory guys. SK2 is described as “an anti-spam plugin for the WordPress blogging platform. It is meant to stop all forms of automated blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters.” wp-plugins.net/doc/sk2/

By the way, don’t forget to upgrade your WordPress blog to the latest 2.3 version released in September of 2007. WordPress 2.3 offers new article keyword tagging features, which means improved search engine ranking and more web site traffic for you: wordpress.org/download/

Wordpress Auto Content Generator is revolutionary! – it truly enables you to develop virtually unlimited original text for your Website or for any other purpose. No matter what, it always comes to that point where you simply need more of that ‘WebFuel’ in order to keep promoting your Site. The following review will show you how you can easily benefit from this one-of-a-kind solution.

Some background

In order to quickly understand how Wordpress Auto Content Generator works then in simple words it researches the Internet for information, to be more specific – it collects ‘piles’ of sentences that are most relevant to your keywords. The next phase is about sorting and categorizing all collected data into subtopics groups. At this point all you need is to quickly construct entirely fresh and unique article(s) that can be used anywhere.

Quick benefits and advantages

There are so many benefits provided by this solution; here are just some of them:

* Takes no more than just a few clicks to get the job done.
* Helps on keeping the attention of your visitors and the search engines.
* Helps you to focus your time more on making money rather than on writing.
* It helps on-line businesses to simply attract more visitors from SE.
* Why spend on expensive PPC advertising while you can get the same visitors for free?

On the bottom line

Well, if we summarize it we can say that Wordpress Auto Content Generator enables you to virtually get endless amount of WebContent. It is time for action, so at this point it is highly advised to try it by yourself so you can not only read about it, but truly experience the various opportunities that it brings. There are probably many other pluses provided by this webmarketing tool simply because it transforms complicated tasks automatic and effective.

How many hours a week do you spend on original text development for your Website? Well, Article For Wordpress Creator can amazingly cut that assignment into just minutes of work. Next time your Site or Blog are ‘running out’ of that ‘WebFuel’ you don’t have to buy it from others or spend hours trying to produce it by yourself anymore. Want to learn more about this special program? Read the following review.

Quick overview

The program works this way: you provide it with specific keyword(s) that are related to a specific topic and this advanced Article For Wordpress Creator will automatically search and collect from the Internet entire paragraphs & sentences that it finds as highly relevant. Once all information is collected it is being split into different subtopics groups. Now comes the best part where all you need is to quickly combine these ready-made text segments into new, original, and impressive article(s).

Quick advantages

Undoubtedly most of us can find this kind of solution useful and helpful:

* You can write on any topic even if writing isn’t your strength or passion.
* Get into the business of writing contents for other Webmasters on any subject they want.
* You can write about any subject even if you know nothing about it.
* No need to pay for P.L.R article(s) being used by hundreds of other marketers.
* Helps you on keeping your visitors come back to your Site by constantly updating it with new and interesting information.

Conclusion

In average, implementing such tool requires no more than 1-2 min.; moreover, a typical ‘Topic Research’ with this Article For Wordpress Creator takes about the same time. Now that you know more about how it works it is advised to run it on your systems and experience how it easily takes any on-line business to the next level. If we go a little further, it wouldn’t be that hard to discover other advantages provided by this exciting program simply because it opens up various important opportunities that just can’t be missed.

WordPress is an open-source blog engine released under the GNU general public license. It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing blogs and though it is chiefly used for blogging, it can also be used as a complete CMS with very little effort. Its versatility and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.

This book walks through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom theme for the WordPress open-source blog engine. The author provides design tips and suggestions and covers setting up the WordPress sandbox, and reviews the best practices from setting up the theme’s template structure, through coding markup, testing, and debugging, to taking it live. The last three chapters cover additional tips, tricks, and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to WordPress theme designs using 3rd-party plugins as well as creating API hooks to add custom plugins.

Whether users are working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, WordPress Theme Design will give them the know-how to effectively understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system enabling them to have full control over their site’s design and branding. Users only need to be comfortable with the basics of web development and this book will take care of the rest.

What you will learn from this book

Set up a basic workflow and development environment for WordPress theme design
Create detailed designs and code them up
Enhance your sites by choosing the right color schemes and graphics
Debug and validate your theme using W3C’s XHTML and CSS validation tools
Customize and tweak your theme’s layout
Set up dynamic drop-down menus, AJAX/dynamic and interactive forms
Download and install useful plug-ins and widgetize your theme
Improve post and page content using jQuery and ThickBox
Add interactivity to your themes using Flash
Includes a reference guide to WordPress 2.0’s template hierarchy, markup, styles and template tags, as well as include and loop functions

Chapter 1 introduces you to the WordPress blog system and lets you know what you need to be aware of regarding the WordPress theme project you’re ready to embark on. The chapter also covers the development tools that are recommended and web skills that you’ll need to begin developing a WordPress theme.

Chapter 2 looks at the essential elements you need to consider when planning your WordPress theme design. It discusses the best tools and processes for making your theme design a reality. The author explains her own ‘Rapid Design Comping’ technique and gives some tips and tricks for developing color schemes and graphic styles for your WordPress theme. By the end of the chapter, you’ll have a working XHTML and CSS based ‘comp’ or mockup of your theme design, ready to be coded up and assembled into a fully functional WordPress theme.

Chapter 3 uses the final XHTML and CSS mockup from Chapter 2 and shows you how to add WordPress PHP template tag code to it and break it down into the template pages a theme requires. Along the way, this chapter covers the essentials of what makes a WordPress theme work. At the end of the chapter, you’ll have a basic, working WordPress theme.

Chapter 4 discusses the basic techniques of debugging and validation that you should employ throughout your theme’s development. It covers the W3C’s XHTML and CSS validation services and how to use the FireFox browser and some of its extensions as a development tool, not just another browser. This chapter also covers troubleshooting some of the most common reasons ‘good code goes bad’, especially in IE, and best practices for fixing those problems, giving you a great-looking theme across all browsers and platforms.

Chapter 5 discuss how to properly set up your WordPress theme’s CSS style sheet so that it loads into WordPress installations correctly. It also discuss compressing your theme files into the ZIP file format and running some test installations of your theme package in WordPress’s administration panel so you can share your WordPress theme with the world.

Chapter 6 covers key information under easy-to-look-up headers that will help you with your WordPress theme development, from the two CSS class styles that WordPress itself outputs, to WordPress’s PHP template tag code, to a breakdown of “The Loop” along with WordPress functions and features you can take advantage of in your theme development. Information in this chapter is listed along with key links to bookmark to make your theme development as easy as possible.

Chapter 7 dives into taking your working, debugged, validated, and properly packaged WordPress theme from the earlier chapters, and enhancing it with dynamic menus using the SuckerFish CSS-based method and Adobe Flash media.

Chapter 8 continues showing you how to enhance your WordPress theme by looking at the most popular methods for leveraging AJAX techniques in WordPress using plugins and widgets. It also gives you a complete background on AJAX and when it’s best to use those techniques or skip them. The chapter also reviews some cool JavaScript toolkits, libraries, and scripts you can use to simply make your WordPress theme appear ‘Ajaxy’.

Chapter 9 reviews the main tips from the previous chapters and covers some key tips for easily implementing today’s coolest CSS tricks into your theme as well as a few final SEO tips that you’ll probably run into once you really start putting content into your WordPress site.

For more details on the book please visit http://www.packtpub.com/wordpress-theme-design/book.

In the part of the decade, the online world was fused to a new form of authors. These were the first crusaders of blogging. It was not long before WordPress blogs started showing up all over the world. With its powerful website CMS that enabled better blogging systems and a more intuitive interface, WordPress soon become the blogging software of choice.

WordPress was often just seen as blogging software. Few seen it as anymore than just a way to post a few personal notes. It was basically the first twitter. But an increasing number of marketers are finding that you can also use to create a tremendous amount of money in a very short amount of time. The most powerful function of WordPress lies in its ability to manage large amounts of text, audio and video content. After a dozen pages it becomes difficult to manage a static HTML site. Although you can use template-driven software as well like SBI or DreamWeaver, nothing beats the ease of WordPress.When it comes to ease of use, you will find no other software that can beat it.

In its native form, it does come with some useful tools and you can find a lot of useful free plugins that can increase it usefulness. Yet there is nothing that can come close to using premium blogging tools which easily transform the creation of a static website, an article directory, a Wordpress based membership site system, a complete e-commerce site, an auction sites, a portfolio site and so much more. As a matter of fact you can also just about use it for anything. SEO, no worries, there are even premium themes created that can box with the best of them. Google is pleased.

Search Engine Optimization is another important element. By default, WordPress is pretty good at optimizing and creating SEO friendly content. However you can also get more serious and utilize simple WordPress plugins to further increase your SEO rankings and get better Yahoo or Google rankings.

Flexibility is one of its main strengths. Within minutes you can switch between hundreds of themes, plugins and widgets. You can do this all for free. Is there any software on the market that can boast free plugins, themes and widgets?

If you aren’t using WordPress, then I have one questions for you. Why not? The learning curve has reduced substantially in the past 3 years. A newbie can easily setup a blog within minutes. I am not kidding when I say in minutes, because when I first started blogging, I knew nothing about WordPress. It took me about 30 minutes to get my WordPress installed and publish my first post.

2009 and 2010 will be a new era for WordPress. The future of blogging will be WordPress. If you do a search on the internet you will find so many programs and systems that are geared to the success of someone using WordPress. Developers are creating some amazing software that can literally do anything you want with it. No matter your needs or ideas, there is a plugin that can make it happen. Some are paid and others are free, but none the less it can be done and it can be done well.

We have, as you all might have seen, chosen WordPress as our blogging platform for our internet marketing business and that is for some very good reasons. Below is a (somewhat  subjective) review and reasons behind our choice.  Fist off some Advantages and Disadvantages.

Advantages

WordPress is FREE

WordPress has tons of plugins that will help you optimize your blog according to your needs and requirements

Wordpress is very easy to install and use

WordPress has thousands of followers and developers that continously imrpove and delvelop plugins, tools and software

Disadvantages

We have some difficulties using the editor, so we use a free html editor called NVU (Click HERE to check NVU) – make the post there and copy it into the WordPress “Add New Post” editor

A lot of spamboots and automatic comment poster “attack” WordPress blog posts

Except for that we haven’t found any weaknesses or disadvantages so far.

Plugins:
Plugins are small softwares that is developed by either WordPress OR webdesigners like you and me, in order to complete and optimize WordPress.  There are literally thousands of plugins developed, soe not so good and some truly amazing.  Below is a couple of examples of plugins just to give you an idea of what it really is:

Plugin 1: http://tweetmeme.com/about/retweet_buttonTweetMeme – this FREE plugin puts a small button on every blog post which enables your visitors to easily share YOUR blog post link to all their Twitter followers. HIGHLY reccomended (check it in the upper right hand corner of this post)

Plugin 2: MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate – this $97 plugin enables you to manage ALL your affiliate links, create your own link names etc etc.

We’ll cover some really good, both free and paid, plugins in later posts, but we just like to mention specifically that there are some excellent plugins for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) that will drive free traffic to your website/blog.

Software:
In the blogging world there are constant need for different softwares, and for WordPress (and other blog platforms) there are a lot of good ones developed. Again, just to give you an idea of what we’re talking about, here is an example:

Artisteer – this software enables you to MAKE your OWN WordPress themes (soon also Blogger/Blogspot) without knowing any html codes.  You can set the width of your blog, colors, header, footer……you name it – you can do it with Artisteer.  An excellent software if you’re setting up and managing many blogs.

We’ll of course cover Artisteer and other softwares more detailed in later posts.

Conclusion:
WordPress is in our eyes the ultimate blog platform for your internet marketing and business.  It has ALL the features and tweks we’re looking for and it continues to develop and improve day by day.  Before you chose your blogging platform, you definately have to evaluate WordPress and see if it’s suitable for you.

Thanks for taking time to read this review, and whatever choice you make – we wish you all the best in your business endeavours.

PS! Comments and suggestions are HIGHLY welcomed

Yours Respectfully

Tom Hammerborg

Get your free e-book “how to set up your blog” here: http://qualityNetworkers.com

As WordPress and blogging become more and more popular, the list of customization options continues to grow. One can attribute that to each user wanting his or her blog to be unique or very much personalized. Who knows, one day a theme can be just as unique as the blog’s author! The following is an overview of the latest developments on WordPress themes.

WordPress Widgets

The blog software developer has recently come up with an edition of this plug-in for the full-version WordPress. A Widget here refers to those tools you can use to modify your site—its sidebar, design, or general layout—without having to know and use HTML codes. About a hundred Widgets are featured in the WordPress Widgets blog, and they are classified in categories such as photography, music, discussion, video, income, and links, among others. It is a fun and easy way of customizing your site, so that it features everything you care about, and nothing you don’t.

Not all themes are ready for these Widgets, however, and some modifications need to be done to include this fun feature in the sites that make use of such themes. http://Automattic.com gives full instructions on how to go about making your WordPress site Widget-friendly. WordPress is continuously adding to their already-vast selection of Widgets to suit their user’s whims and personalities.

Canvas Plugin

This blogger-friendly plugin has recently allowed blog users to create their very own theme for their WordPress blog. The good news is that this plugin allows users a pretty good level of customization without them having to study and use codes. The result: a site that looks very professional built within the range of a few minutes to a couple of hours. Even better news is that this plugin comes for free.

This stand-alone plugin opens up to a bare starting point, with a selection of blocks that you can include in your layout by drag-and-drop method. Among the many features of Canvas are Banner, RSS, Static Text, Feature, Digg, Flickr, Random Tagline, Comment, Category List, Asides, Archive, Description, Calendar, Search, Post, and Navigation functions. Meanwhile, an Ink tab gives the user the freedom to determine the styles to be used on the page, sans the need to check the actual stylesheet. This tab proves to be quite useful for beginners, because it features help links that corresponds to each theme component, the style of which you may be about to identify. These links load the template with an indication of the part in question, to give the user a clear idea of what effect the change will have.

“Being Moderated” Notification

It does not come as a surprise that some comments are being moderated by the recipient blog’s owner or moderator. However, it would be nice for you to let your eager comment writers know that you have received their comment, when the system is programmed to delay posting of comments on your blog until it has been read and approved by you. Without this notification activated, some of your readers may think that their comment just got lost and they’ll have to write their comment all over again, when in fact your blog has secured it and it’s only waiting for your approval. However, the blog author may need to be familiar with code to activate this feature. Nevertheless, it is one way to deter comment spammers from infiltrating your blog. Your may also word the notification in your liking. Here’s an example: “Thank you for your comment. It may take a while before your comment may be published. Please check back later.”

More Themes to Match Content

While it is all up to the blog author to decide, it would be quite useful to have a theme that will give first-time readers of your blog a pretty good idea of what to expect by simply looking at the design in use. For this reason, WordPress theme designers are coming up with more specific themes to match a variety of specific types of content. Experts say that the first several seconds spent by a visitor on your blog determine the impression they get of your site. So if your site fails to capture attention right away, then it’s most likely that you’re losing potential repeat readers or site visits.

When designing your site or choosing the appropriate theme, keep in mind that the first concern of a site visitor is whether or not the site has the kind of information needed by him or her. The visual elements, being much faster to grasp than the textual, will help in a big way. If the theme you choose does not correspond to the general content of your site, then attracting more followers will need more effort. Whether we like it or not, looks matter for a lot of people, as this is how beliefs and opinions are initially formed.

WordPress Theme Contests

To ensure your steady stream of new themes, WordPress and certain partners have organized theme contests to discover and recognize the best themes that have cropped up lately. Last year even saw several competitions that attracted theme creators and users alike. This year, however, the WordPress camp has witnessed a slowing down in the production of themes, perhaps due to the fading novelty of it all, not discounting the fact that a lot of those who submitted themes before did it for free.

Nevertheless, customization of WordPress blogs still holds quite a lot of promise, with the arrival of new customization features, such as the Canvas and Widgets plugins. It also promises more highly-customizable themes in the future. For now, you would already be missing out on a lot if you are not already trying out the latest WordPress customization plugins. You can also try modifying some basic features, such as whether your front page should show excerpts or the full blog entries, or changing the number of posts that will show up on your blog index, or both. Whatever you choose, there are hundreds of themes available and other options for you to use, to get as close as ever to your most desired look for your blog.

Introduction

WordPress has become one of the most popular blogging packages on the Internet; this is largely due to its ease of use and its object oriented design which allows the user to easily extend its capabilities in the form of WordPress Plugins. The WordPress plugins repository is a high-availability set of development tools — a wiki, version control using Subversion, and bug tracker — that aims to nurture the active WordPress development community.

Plugins

Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. Plugins offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs. Plugins are one of the most valuable elements of WordPress as a platform. You can download a fresh version of WordPress with the plugins you select, or just a zip of all your favorite plugins. More and more plugins are starting to use AJAX techniques. For any WordPress user, plugins are essential. Luckily there is already a few plugins out there for that, but sometimes your readers will suggest something that has yet to be implemented as a plugin. Semiologic CMS is a set of plugins and themes for WordPress that work together to turn a WordPress blog into more of a content management system. Each plugin is activated separately, so if you want to use a couple of the plugins, you can do so without running the plugins you don’t want.

Tag

Tags in the Head is a WordPress plugin that attempts to make your website both more machine and human readable by using the ‘Tags’ you specify as META keywords in a page’s header. When using this plugin, you can use the WordPress’ categories as tags — no additional tagging plugin is needed. Some search engines are supposed to love this tag, so I guess we should, too. This plugin is extremely easy to install and it will create a dynamic Meta Description Tag for every page on your blog, based on post excerpts or on the first words of the page.

Video

WP-FLV is a plugin to help you add flash video to your Wordpress site. It holds the URL to your Flash Video file. For instance generate a list of video links rather then show the player. It was really easy to get this running, and I think it looks more professional then most of the non-free flash video players. It is easy to simply pop it up, but its hard to specify the sizes of the windows they open in, especially when all the videos have different resolutions.

Ads

Adsense Deluxe allows you to automatically insert Google Adsense with ease. Adsense-Deluxe allows you to test your Adsense styles without having to edit your Wordpress templates. There are a lot of ways you can add ads to your WordPress blog. Google Adsense has become the most popular online contextual advertising program. Wordpress allows bloggers to easily integrate Google Adsense inside wordpress using plugins.

Social

Social Bookmark Plugin : Make it easy for users to bookmark your posts in del. Socializer is way to submit your post to all of the social bookmark networks at once. It include 37 social bookmark networks (digg, de. Bookmark Me by Denis de BernardyLists links to common social bookmarking sites. This is an excellent way to promote your articles on one of the most popular social bookmarking sites around. This plugin is very useful for handling sudden bursts of traffic coming from social bookmarking sites like Digg and Slashdot. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

Conclusion

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Wordpress plugins available for download. Top 10 Underrated Wordpress Plugins those plugins are certainly awesome, but there are many others out there that can be life savers, and people often neglect them.

Wordpress shopping carts that use Paypal are very hard to find. The majority of those that are available are still in alpha and beta development stages and not ready for a production web site. This is a great pity because Wordpress is the prefered website environment of choice for many Internet marketers for well known reasons, including the speed at which you can deploy new sites, and the myriad of tools, themes and plugins that are freely available.

Given the current explosion in popularity this particular development environment is experiencing I am really surprised that there are so few wordpress shopping cart options available. The coding of these scripts and plugins must be a lot more complex than what one would expect.

If you are researching for a shoppingcart solution then the following features constitute the very least that a good system should offer -

1) If the solution requires installation on your server then it must be simple to install, and to configure. You probably do not want to pay good money to somebody else to install a complex script.

2) The shopping cart software must be quick and easy for day to day administration, via a secure web interface.

3) It must be very stable. You do not want any errors to occur when you have a hard earned customer busy paying you for your goods.

4) It has to be fast. The fastest shopping carts always work “in” your website. That means it does not leave your site and jump to the payment vendors site everytime a buyer adds a product to their basket. I always get annoyed with shopping cart software that constantly takes ages to add items to my basket.

5) The shopping cart must “look and feel” exactly like the rest of your site. The best solution is one where your customer sees no difference between the shopping basket and the rest of your web site.

6) Usability and simplicity is paramount. It must be extremely easy for your customer to use. Many niches cater to a less sophisticated clientele (not everybody is an expert), and you do not want to lose sales from within the shopping cart itself because your customer does not know what to do next.

7) The shopping cart software must provide your clients with as many payment options as possible. At the very least it must accept PayPal payments, Google Checkout payments, and also all major credit cards and debit cards.

Lastly, being a full-time internet marketer myself, I often sell digital “downloadable” content. So, I look for a solution that will keep all of my product download locations completely secret and secure. Unique, hacker-safe download links for each of my product items must be automatically generated on a per customer basis. These download links must be configurable in terms of the number of times they can be used (and also the length of time that they can be used) to download the particular product that has been purchased. This stops content thieves from sharing the download link they receive with other people who have not purchased, thereby defrauding you of sales.

If you want an excellent Paypal based wordpress shopping cart then point your browser to http://www.wordpressshoppingcart.info