How to Add a PayPal Shopping Cart to Your WordPress Blog

If you intend to start blogging for a living, one of the most effective ways to make money from your website is to use it as a platform for selling related products or services. If you have spent some time blogging already, you have probably built up enough knowledge and experience to get started in online business. For example, you may decide to publish an e-book providing a deeper look into your niche, in which case you will likely want to start selling it through your blog. Whether you plan to sell an e-book or any other kind of merchandise through your blog, the PayPal platform provides everything that you need to create a basic online shop for receiving payments and sending out invoices. Best of all, it costs nothing to add a basic PayPal shopping cart to your WordPress blog. By far the easiest way to do this is to use a suitable plugin, and for the purpose of this guide, we will be using the popular WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart.

 

1. In your administrator dashboard, navigate to Plugins > Add New and search for the plugin mentioned above. Activate the plugin once you have downloaded and installed it. Once activated, a new section will appear in the administrator dashboard sidebar entitled “Cart Orders” as well as a new submenu in the Settings section entitled “WP Shopping Cart.”
2. To create a new item to sell using PayPal, navigate to Settings > WP Shopping Cart. Be sure to enter your PayPal email address correctly. Complete the other details as required, entering the standard three-letter currency code in the Currency box. Click “Update Options” to save your changes.
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3. Add the product or service that your want to sell on a new or existing page or post. Enter any text or images you want to describe the product and then add the shopping cart button by using the following shortcode: [wp_cart_button name=”PRODUCT-NAME” price=”PRODUCT-PRICE”] Replace PRODUCT_NAME with the name of your product and PRODUCT_PRICE with its price. Save and publish the post or page.
4. Navigate to Appearance > Widgets and drag the WP PayPal Shopping Cart widget to the desired widget area in the column to the right. Click “Save” to save your changes. Visitors to your website should now see something like that which is displayed in the screenshot below:
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