WP E-commerce
WordPress has been hailed in blogging platform circles for a number of years for it’s excellent open source contribution to the world of bloggers. Not only is it free and open source while being very simple to modify, it is also capable of executing impressive levels of functionality using it’s vast plugin library. E-commerce is not something you’d normally associate with this sort of platform – we already know that Magento is a very complex adaptation of open source code to create shopping cart software, so surely WordPress is already the best at what it is?
http://www.instinct.co.nz/e-commerce/
The WP-Ecommerce plugin for WordPress developed by New Zealand team Instinct is a ‘state-of-the-art e-Commerce platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. It is both free and priceless at the same time.’
It certainly picks up on the WordPress focus towards simplicity, usability and multi-platform integration. My question as a new potential user is regarding the depth of the software. The lack of apparent support suggests that it is on the whole fairly easy to use. There has also been little said about the platform’s backend, which will be fundamental in its ease of use.
I’ll have a review of it once I make progress with its development.
I’ve installed the e-commerce plugin and so far so good (even though I haven’t figured out the title tags for the separate product pages). Might work ok for less advanced shops.