Turn WordPress into a Shopping Site

An interesting plugin caught my eye this morning, one called WP E-commerce, a plugin which turns your blog into a fully fledged shopping system, with the ability to sell things straight off your website. Here are the key features:

  • Works with WordPress 2.5
  • Google Checkout – Level 2 Integration
  • DPS / Paystation Integration
  • PayPal IPN integration
  • Web 2.0 powered DropShop Shopping Cart
  • Web 2.0 powered Sliding Shoping Cart
  • Audio Player Module for selling MP3 files and digital downloads
  • Purchase records downloadable as CSV file
  • Support for USA & Canada Tax

I haven’t tried it yet, but it’s worth keeping in mind for the future. Regardless of whether you have a joke blog or an electronics blog, it’s nice to have the options to be able to sell things right off it.

WP Super Cache 0.9

There’s been a new release of one of the more awesome plugins around: WP Super Cache. In case you’ve never come across it, it gives WordPress a boost by preparing static versions of pages when they are called so that the next time a user visits the site they don’t have to be generated again by WordPress. It’s one of the recomendations if you’re running a High Performance WordPress installation and absolutely indispensable if your server is struggling under the load (More indispensible that weight loss pills for a an overweight hippo!)

The new version has a number of bug fixes and also some new features, like the ability to detect mobile devices and serve them a separate page (allowing mobile plugins to work properly) and some improved efficiencies around cached page storage and garbage collection. If you’re blog is slow, check it out!