The beauty of using wordpress as the base platform for your ecommerce website is the ability to quickly and easily install lots of great plugins provided free by the wordpress community.
The plugins below are recommended for themes to function at there best.
1. Restore/Find Post ID’s
This wordpress plugin will show you the ID’s for each of your products/posts and is used when locating post ID’s for display settings.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/restore-id/
2. Page Navigation Plugin (for Versions 5.0 and less NOT required in version 6)
This wordpress plugin will place a page navigation on your website allowing visitors to navigate between pages and view extra items, without this plugin you will only see the first page of results.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-navigation-list-plugin-navt/
3. PremiumPress User Photo
This WordPress plugin has been modified to allow users to associate a profile photo with their account through their “Your Profile” page. Admin’s may add a user profile photo by accessing the “Edit User” page.
Download: http://www.premiumpress.com/inc/premiumpress-user-photo.zip
4. Google XML sitemap’s
A highly recommend plugin for any successful ecommerce website. This wordpress plugin makes setting up an online sitemap a piece of cake and updates itself automatically when you add new content to your website.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
5. Star Rating Plugin
This wordpress plugin will allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your website. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-star-rating/
6. Welcome Email Editor and removal of @Wordpress.com
It simply adds a new admin page that has a few options for the welcome email and gives you a list of hooks to use in the text to make the email a little more personal.
Download: http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-plugin-change-wp-email-from-details-1883
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-email-editor/
SMTP email download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/
7. Register Plus Redux
Enhances the user registration process with complete customization and additional administration options.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/register-plus-redux/
8. Stop Comment and Registration Spam
Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all. For WP, WPMU, and BuddyPress.
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress//
