hi there this is alan from hyper stream
and in this video i want to show you how
you can sell your own products using
wordpress now i'm assuming you've
already got wordpress installed so if
you haven't go ahead get that installed
using the tutorials on this site the way
you get going with WordPress is
downloaded from wordpress.org or you can
install it via your web host but this
isn't a tutorial on that this is about
selling products so once you've got
WordPress installed go ahead and get the
WooCommerce plug-in downloaded and
installed on your blog so here I've just
got an old site I'll blow of this one
for this the purpose of this tutorial so
I'm just going to log in okay so let's
go ahead and download or install the
plug-in WooCommerce do a search for that
search and go ahead and install this
plug-in here
okay so activate the plug-in and then
we're just going to go through a few
quick setup things so what you're going
to need for this to take payments is a
PayPal account so if you haven't got a
PayPal account
hello head over to paypal.com and
register for an account there and what
you're going to need is your the the
details that you the email address that
you signed up for PayPal with so just if
you get that wrong that you're not going
about taking your payments so go ahead
let's set up the payment options first
I'm going to go into the settings
okay well we need to install the pages
first and come back okay so sign here we
need to install these these pages into
WordPress so let's go ahead and install
these we could manually add certain
short codes but this is a blank site so
I'm just going to install install these
pages automatically and then I'm going
to go into the settings and then we're
going to set up our PayPal account so
we're going to go in to check out check
out and then we've got PayPal so what I
have a PayPal checkout click on settings
and then here's where the important part
where you put your email address to
receive PayPal payment so mine for
example is a lot of Dreams up is just an
old email address and I signed up PayPal
ages ago and then I think the same you
put the same email just there and this
is optional so that's the main thing you
need to put your your paypal email
address
oops and they'll receive it email
address
actually this is my receive it you know
it just is slightly different than mine
is actually okay okay
yours should be the same I imagine if
you use the same PayPal same email
address you signed up with PayPal so
that's that one done and then Save
Changes and then we should be good to go
take payments okay the next thing is
we're going to show you how to add a
product so here we have the product
section of woo commerce so go ahead and
add your first product click on add
product now we can type in the title of
product so say test product the title we
pretty content about your your product
there you can add pictures and video I
didn't think you want in this space here
you want to set the product image here
so click on set product image and then
select a file so we'll just use any old
I'll just use any old image here that's
what I'm do fit Google Apps
okay so once it's uploaded set the
product image by clicking on set product
image and that should be done okay put
your sale price in so your regular price
which we want to sell it at obviously if
it's on a sale so you would put maybe 80
pounds for example or 80 dollars in
whatever currency you're working in and
then we can publish the product and we
should publish now that product will be
published on my website and view that so
here we are this is added to the site
I'm gonna change this theme actually
because it is not compatible with Wu
teams so that's a good point you
actually need to have a template that is
listed as being practical with WooThemes
and I'm showing what I'm gonna do I'm
just gonna switch this back to the
default WordPress theme for now 2014 and
then that should look a bit better
so there we go we've now added our
products into there and then we can add
that to our cart
you know Add to Cart you know view the
cart we then proceed to checkout we can
fill in our details and then we're gonna
choose PayPal as our as our option sheet
the PayPal okay it's asking me to fill
in some details here
okay so there we go I've added a product
and that's now pushed this it's
processed that into PayPal and if I put
in my details here obviously I want to
pay myself but this would be a function
in products so you see in as little as
the time we've just taken to set up a
few minutes you can have a product up
online ready to sell very quickly
obviously creating a product and you
know it takes a bit more time to do that
but you can see the technology behind it
doesn't take too long if you want to get
started selling products using WordPress
okay so I just want to mention that the
purpose of these tutorials is not really
I'm not trying to make a perfect
tutorials here I just want to give you
really an overview and what you can do
with WordPress and hopefully give you
something very quickly in these short
videos so I'm not going to spend
subsequent videos I'm not going to spend
a lot of time setting up demo pages and
things I'm just going to use real world
examples which I have okay so what we've
done in this this little video I've
shown you how to install WooCommerce
into WordPress we spoke about very
generally about themes and having a
compatible theme with WooCommerce is
important now obviously the default
themes that come with WordPress probably
not going to be the best ones to use you
know they will work and you can
definitely sell products through them
but it's probably better to actually if
you're going to open up a shop you
definitely want to go for a premium
theme so if you want to go on to
somewhere like you can buy themes from
whoo the people that actually make the
theme that plug-in itself which is with
themes or I also recommend
themeforest.net which where we buy a lot
of our own templates and themes for
WordPress so if you have a look on the
below this video there'll be some links
to some recommended themes and templates
that you can use for WooCommerce
I hope you found this useful take care
bye bye