Can we do eCommerce with WordPress?

Bobbing Wide took a look at a few WordPress ecommerce plugins. Our vote went to wpstorecart. A lot of my customers would like to start simply – with a [WOW] website – and then add online buying at a later stage. Well, that’s simple if you just have a couple of products. You can use my PayPal buttons to achieve a very simple shopping cart. OR you can use another external shopping cart solution such as Mal’s e-commerce (used on the www.pathofbeing.com website) But what if you want a full eCommerce solution integrated into your WordPress site? Is there a WordPress plugin that’s as powerful and flexible as Ubercart for Drupal. We made a short list of FREE WordPress plugins and investigated them. For our findings click on the dot dot dot links in the table below. If the link gives you a 404 we haven’t written anything up yet. Of the two we’ve actually looked at, installed, configured and used wpStoreCart was the one we preferred. We would use this in an extension to a [WOW] website and blog. For a more complete eCommerce solution we would still favour using Drupal and Ubercart… as implemented on www.Bobbing Wide.com

Plugin name and description	Plugin links: WP,homepage,bw notes	Version, total downloads, last update

Plugin name and description	Plugin links	Version, total downloads, last update, tested
MarketPress – WordPress eCommerce Full-power ecommerce marketplace for WordPress and Multisite. 100% free and no extensions required.	wordpress-ecommerce home	3.2.10 222055 2019-02-15 6:50pm GMT 5.1.1

Plugin name and description	Plugin links	Version, total downloads, last update, tested
wpstorecart	No info available

Plugin name and description	Plugin links	Version, total downloads, last update, tested
TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart Native eCommerce integration & interaction with WordPress. Flexibility & Scalability. Ideal for merchants, themes constructors…	thecartpress home	1.5.3.6 201257 2017-01-12 7:25pm GMT 4.7.13

Plugin name and description	Plugin links	Version, total downloads, last update, tested
Shopp Improved A related posts plugin that works quickly evenShopp Improved is a plugin that extends the popular Shopp eCommerce solution for WordPress.	shopp-improved home	1.0.3 4690 2010-11-18 5:47pm GMT 3.0.5

Plugin name and description	Plugin links	Version, total downloads, last update, tested
zingiri-web-shop	No info available