[Hidden-tech] monetizing Wordpress

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:34:32 -0500 "Dan Richardson (t)" <tech at nottooloud.com> wrote:

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> 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.

It *seems* to be still working on my site (running WP 4.1).

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> EasyPayPal also looks friendly, but sounds like it's geared for downloads.
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> 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.

On the Dashboard, select the 'Screen Options' drop down and make sure the "At 
a Glance" checkbox is selected.  This *should* give you the At a Glance 
dashboard widget, which will show the current version of WordPress.  At this 
is what works with the self-hosted version.  I don't know what they do at 
wordpress.com.  


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> Sigh. I hate computers.
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> Dan
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> 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:
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> >         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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