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MiniCart WordPress Plugin: Shopping Cart for WordPress

By Binny V A • Jul 14th, 2009 • Category: Blogging, Scripts, WordPress

Wordpress Shopping Cart

MiniCart will implement a mini-shopping-cart in your blog. You can add items from the admin side and embed the cart into posts. This can also be used as a donation plugin. By design, you can only show one item in a cart.

If you like this plugin, consider making a donation…

USD

The above donate form is created using the MiniCart plugin. To see an actual cart in action, got the MiniCart Demo page.

Download MiniCart

Features

  • Supports Paypal
  • Easy to use interface
  • You can also embed it directly into a post
  • One item/cart restriction. This will force the users to focus on just one item.

Installation

  1. Download the zipped file.
  2. Extract and upload the contents of the folder to /wp-contents/plugins/ folder
  3. Enable the plugin from Wordpress admin area
  4. Go to Settings > Mini-Cart Setting page and set the paypal id(Make sure this is done).
  5. Go to Tools > Cart Items and create items
  6. Embed the cart in a post by using the code [MINICART item="ID_OF_ITEM"] anywhere in a post/page.
  7. Alternatively, you can use the code [MINICART donate] to show a donation form.

If you have any issues with the plugin, post a thread at the MiniCart Plugin Forum.

Plugin Week

This plugin is part of the Plugin Week 2 series. Plugin Week is a week when I publish a new plugin each day for an entire week. I have already one this one time – so this is Plugin Week 2. This is the second plugin released this week. The first is Weather Man.

If you want to get news about the upcoming plugin releases(remember, 1 per day), please subscribe to this site.

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