E-Commerce Options with WPMUDEV

Hi all,

I have been trying to build up an e-commerce site using this theme. However, I cannot get the site to look anything like a nice e-commerce site. Unfortunately I do not have the expertise to modify the theme, but this is not the point; I understand that the plugin called MarketPress is capable of a lot of things, but if the theme itself is not looking good, the backend of the store it doesn’t matter as I do not feel that I can make any sales with it.

I wathched the Market Press videos in YOUYUBE but there are no similar videos for the theme itself.

Is there any other theme in WPMUDEV that can be used for the e-commerce front end? For instance what I want to achieve is as follows:

1. Have the flexibility of introducing a big slider at the top of the page.

2. Be able to easily change the name of the store, add a tagline underneath it, add a header, modify the menus and even have at least 2 menus one for the customer account and another one for the main navigation.

3. Remove all that left-hand side bar with tags and other WP-specific things.

4. Have the option that for each category of products to have an own page, for instance if the main category is “Women Shoes” then I need to have separate pages for “heels’, “platforms”, etc. you got the idea….

5. I should have a number of filters available for type of shoes, brands of shoes, etc. and each filter to take the customer to a specific page.

Please let me know if the above are possible to achieve in WP or what is achievable to get as much as possible to such a vision.

Thank you!

Madalin

  • Alexander
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Hi @BorderMedia,

    All of these are definitely possible with WordPress, and even MarketPress However they’re not all immediately possible with FrameMarket.

    Just to be clear, MarketPress doesn’t require FrameMarket. You can use it with just about any other WordPress theme that meets the WordPress standards for theme development. For example, here are a few of our demo sites for MarketPress:

    http://wp-ecommerce.org

    http://wpmudevswag.wp-ecommerce.org/

    http://makeupstore.wp-ecommerce.org/

    Here’s the theme for the third one:

    http://www.themeskingdom.com/wordpress-themes/elevation-responsive-portfolio-wordpress-theme/

    If you’re going to use FrameMarket, Items 1+2+3 of these customizations would call for some custom development. You’d need to do some custom CSS at the very least. If this is

    Some of what you’re loking for under 2 can be done from your site settings. The store name is the same as your WordPress site name. You can also change the URLs by going to MarketPress -> Settings and taking a look on the presentation tab.

    4. Have the option that for each category of products to have an own page, for instance if the main category is “Women Shoes” then I need to have separate pages for “heels’, “platforms”, etc. you got the idea….

    You could actually link directly to a category from your menu. For example yoursite.com/store/products/category/heels/

    There are also shortcodes included to embed a category within a page. For example, you could add this shortcode to any page:

    [mp_list_products category=”heels”]

    That would show the products from that category within the page.

    5. I should have a number of filters available for type of shoes, brands of shoes, etc. and each filter to take the customer to a specific page.

    There is a search filter widget you can get for free from here: http://www.marketpressthemes.com/

    Hope this helps clear some things up and get you started! Let me know is there’s anything else I can help with here!

    Best regards,

  • BorderMedia
    • Flash Drive

    Hi Alexander,

    Thank you for your quick response. I will try to do as you said and actually upload a different theme and not Frame Market which for me is not looking good and I do not know how to customize it.

    Actually, your second example http://wpmudevswag.wp-ecommerce.org/ is a bit closer to what I would like to achieve, but of course that I need to customize it.

    OK! I downloaded FlexMarket Theme and I am trying again.

    Thank you for your help!

    Madalin