5 most popular plugins for Ecommerce site 2018

June 20, 2018

Thanks to Wordrpress, now anyone also can build an ecommerce site for their own. There are so many plugins so you can find the right plugin to solve a particular problem on your site, it’s easy to feel like a kid in a candy store.

In this article, we will show you the 5 of the most popular plugins for creating an ecommerce site. Almost these plugins which have the clean user interface and good user experience so the users can easy to use.

Woocommerce (Free, 4+ milion active installations)

It’s very famous plugin, powers 30% of all online stores. No need to worry if your favourite theme is compatible with Woocommerce. Virtually all the themes need to support Woocommerce, even the theme need to be updated when Woocommerce releases a new version.

Woocommerce is completely free plugin. By defalt, it nearly provides all the basic functions for creating an ecommerce site. But if you are finding more advanced features, maybe you can find out here

Demo on Unidash theme

Easy Digital Downloads (Free, 60,000+ active installations)

As its name would suggest, Easy Digital Downloads is a complete eCommerce solution for selling digital products on WordPress. Not like Woocommerce, this plugin just provides a complete system for effortlessly selling your digital products (software, documents, photos, ebooks, songs…).

In the free version, Easy Digital Downloads supports 2 payment gateways only: Paypal Standard and Amazon Payments. You can extend this through their extension. If you are curious, visit here to see all extensions.

Demo on Business Hub theme

JigoShop (Free, 56000+ downloads from their site)

Jigoshop supports both physical and downloadable products. Jigoshop eCommerce provides you with the features necessary to complete your shop in minutes. They also supply their own theme, in this case, you want an assurance that theme will be worked perfectly with the plugin, you can choose their theme

It also supports the extensions so you feel free extend their shop

If you are not good at imagining, we suggest you visit their site for demo

WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart (Free, 40000+ active installations)

This plugin is a lightweight solution. It allows you to add an ‘Add to Cart’ button for your product on any posts or pages. It also allows you to add/display the shopping cart on any post or page or sidebar easily. You will be able to create products by using shortcodes dynamically.

WP-Ecommerce (Free, 20000+ active installations)

The plugin supports product uploads, a dashboard for managing orders and inventory, and tax management.

WP eCommerce offers three free payment gateways such as ProPay, PayPal, and WorldPay. Other Payment gateways are available courtesy of extensions. WP-Ecommerce allows making WP eCommerce do anything you can imagine with hundreds of available hooks.

We have suggested you the 5 of most popular plugins for building ecommerce site, hope you can find what you want.

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The best Meta Box plugins in WordPress

January 29, 2018

1, Option Tree

– Option Tree – WordPress.Org

– Option Tree – GitHub

OptionTree attempts to bridge the gap between WordPress developers, designers and end-users by creating fully responsive option panels and meta boxes with an ease unlike any other plugin. OptionTree has many advanced features with well placed hooks and filters to adjust every aspect of the user experience.

Build your Theme Options panel locally with an easy to use drag & drop interface and then export a functioning `theme-options.php` file for production use that is i18n translation ready, with your custom text domain automatically inserted.

And, in just a few simple lines of code, save settings to the database with a unique array ID so none of your Theme Options conflict with other themes that use OptionTree.

Also, OptionTree now takes full advantage of the new color schemes introduced in WordPress 3.8, it looks and feels built-in.

2, Meta Box By MetaBox.io

– Plugin URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/meta-box/

A lightweight & feature-rich WordPress plugin that helps developers to save time building advanced custom fields and meta boxes in WordPress.

The plugin provides a wide range of field types and a lot of options to for each field type, which gives you unlimited possibility to control and customize the custom fields.

3, CMB2 by CMB2 team

– CMB2 URL: https://cmb2.io/

– CMB2 – WordPress.Org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cmb2/

CMB2 is a developer’s toolkit for building metaboxes, custom fields, and forms for WordPress that will blow your mind. Easily manage meta for posts, terms, users, comments, or create custom option pages.

FEATURES:

Create metaboxes to be used on post edit screens.
Create forms to be used on an options pages.
Create forms to handle user meta and display them on user profile add/edit pages.
Create forms to handle term meta and display wherever your taxonomies are used.
Flexible API that allows you to use CMB forms almost anywhere, even on the front-end.
Several field types are included.
Custom API hook that allows you to create your own field types.
There are numerous hooks and filters, allowing you to modify many aspects of the library (without editing it directly).
Repeatable fields for most field types are supported, as well as repeatable field groups.
CMB2 is safe to bundle with any project. It will only load the newest version in the system.