Once you activate the plug-in, you have the ability to change the size and style of the buttons. Simply go to the “Appearance”, “Widgets” menu to the left of your dashboard & drag it from the list of available widgets to the right to activate it.

This plug-in is quite nice & very easy.

The default image link size is 32px (See the list to the right.) but you can also make them 16px or 64px. (See below)

Also note that you can activate as many or as little as you wish so you will never feel obligated to keep up with social media sites you either don’t use or phase in or out with your interests.

Below are some more screen shots to give you more of an idea of how differently they can be displayed.

This has been another simple WordPress 101 widget recommendation.

To add the “Add to Cart” button near a product image, type:

[ wp_cart:Test Product:price:15.00:end ]

(To use this code, take out the space after the first bracket and before the last bracket. I added it in there so WordPress processes it as text rather than code so you can see it.)

Go ahead – click the “Add to Cart” button below and give it a test. If you’re feeling very generous, donate $10 to me for helping you find and use this plugin

[wp_cart:Test Product:price:10.00:end]

Once you’ve placed the button on the page where you wish to have your product, the second and last step is to put the widget of the shopping cart in the sidebar of your site (so people can “check out”.)

To do this, you would go to “Appearance” and then “Widgets” and drag the widget called “Paypal Shopping Cart” from the available widgets into your sidebar.

And that’s it! It’s that simple. Good luck!

(For additional variation controls, see below.)

Additional variables you can use within the Simple Shopping Cart Plugin:
(With code examples: Take out the space after the first bracket and before the last bracket)
Shipping:

[ wp_cart:Test Product with Shipping:price:10.00:shipping:0.50:end ]

Working Example:
[wp_cart:Test Product with Shipping:price:10.00:shipping:0.50:end]

Variations:

[ wp_cart:Test Product:price:10.00:shipping:0.50:var1[Size|Small|Medium|Large]:end ]

Working Example:
[wp_cart:Test Product:price:10.00:shipping:0.50:var1[Size|Small|Medium|Large]:end]

Multiple variations:

[ wp_cart:Test Product 1:price:10:shipping:2:var1[Size|Small|Medium|Large]:var2[Color|Red|Green]:end ]

Working Example:
[wp_cart:Test Product 1:price:10:shipping:0.50:var1[Size|Small|Medium|Large]:var2[Color|Red|Green]:end]

Note: If you are looking for something that allows you more control with payments & multiple payment gateways, try out one of the following shopping carts:

WP e-commerce Plugin by Instinct
$40* per site license.
They offer a free trial that allows the PayPal and Google payment gateways.

Shopp Plugin by Ingenesis
$55* per site license, $299* Developer access.

*Pricing is at the time of this post and may change.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact Jean.

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