[Hidden-tech] monetizing Wordpress

[Jeff Brand]

Just to make things more fun for you, the site is currently on 
WordPress.com. Unless you're planning to migrate to a self-hosted 
installation of WordPress then your options are limited to whatever, if 
anything, is offered from a pre-selected inventory of plugins on the 
service. The good news is that if they have a PayPal button of some sort 
it should work with zero coding effort.

If you plan to move to a self-hosted WordPress site, I strongly 
recommend WooCommerce. I wouldn't have done so originally but knowing 
the size of the inventory, I think it makes sense as far as properly 
managing products and transactions. It's a large plugin that's actively 
developed and supported so at least there's help out there. The big 
tradeoff there is the effort to setup the cart, since it is a full 
e-commerce package.

The PayPal plugins you're looking at would get you going faster once you 
find the right match: no template changes, testing of the checkout 
process, and more. There might even be a way to dynamically create the 
sale button with a little code.

I'm curious to know what's keeping the Misiek PayPal plugin from working 
in the current environment. That or one of its "competitors" seem like 
the simplest option.

As a hosted service option, perhaps look into SquareSpace. I've heard 
good things about ease of use and the $24/mo business plan would allow 
for unlimited products. There's a free trial period and content 
importer, too.

Best of luck.

On 1/6/2015 1:34 PM, Dan Richardson (t) wrote:
>
>
> ECWID is interesting. Looks friendly. They price by the number of
> products, though, and she's already got well over 1500 drawings. That
> puts her at $30/month headed toward $100/month.
>
> Misiek PayPal looks perfect, but on the WordPress plug-ins page there's
> an autowarning that it hasn't been updated in a long time and may not
> work. It's support forum has one question. "How do I make this work with
> the current Wordpress?" It's unanswered.
>
> EasyPayPal also looks friendly, but sounds like it's geared for downloads.
>
> Nice PayPal Button looks perfect, but he hasn't tested it with Wordpress
> 4. I just spent an hour trying to figure out what version she's running.
> That information appears to be not available. Not in the page source,
> not at the bottom of Dashboard, and there is no "Right Now" widget. The
> online version checkers don't work. Nor does the Firefox plugin.
>
> Sigh. I hate computers.
>
> Dan
>
> On 1/6/15 12:09 PM, Seth Fischer wrote:
>> I'm a big fan of ECWID. I looked at a number of them recently and they
>> are Shopify was absurdly expensive.
>>
>> Seth
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Carey Baker <msondesigns at gmail.com
>> <mailto:msondesigns at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>      Etsy or Shopify
>>
>>      On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Dan Richardson (t)
>>      <tech at nottooloud.com <mailto:tech at nottooloud.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>          My wife is an artist. She has a long standing daily practice of
>>          doing a
>>          drawing and posting it online at
>>          https://eyespider.wordpress.com/. She's
>>          looking for a simple way to make it possible for people to buy the
>>          originals or to contribute to help defray her expenses.
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