Set up your product in the product editor as you would for any type of product.
In the pricing metabox, near the bottom of the page, you will see a dropdown selection box. By default this is set to ‘Shipped’. Simply change this to ‘Download’ and you will then be able to upload the file.

Further Process

Once thru the purchase process the customer will be presented with a download link on the order confirmation page:

as well in the ‘Order Receipt’ email:

Download Limit Settings

Depending on the Shopp settings, downloads can be limited to a certain number of times (infinite, 1x, 15x, etc), a time limit on the download link (1 hour, 1 week, etc) or restrict downloads to the computer the product is purchased from.

_about Shopp

Shopp is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress powered website or blog.

To add a featured image, you must be within the post editing screen of your WordPress admin (back-end). Look for the box on the bottom right-hand side called ‘Featured Image’.

Click the ‘Set featured image’ link

Upload a file from your computer, use an image from the media library or one already used in the blog post.

After the image upload, you’ll get to the next screen. Make sure you’ve got the Large Size selected (or if not available ‘Full size’). Hit the ‘Use as Featured Image’ link. This link will disappear when done and you can close the pop up screen (via the x top right corner)

The featured image will now show in the ‘Featured Image’ box and on the website.

Where do I manage my ads?

After login into the admin area, you’ll find your ads management on the bottom left-hand side named ‘Ads’.

How to upload an ad

Before managing an ad we need to upload ‘m to the server.

(1) Head over to Media > Add New. Select the ad form your computer location (select files).

Tip! try to name the ads with a recognisable name, like ‘ad_imagename’. This will make managing/searching the ads later down the track much easier.

(2) Copy the ‘File URL’. Important! Don’t forget to hit ‘Save all changes’.

(3) Select ‘Add/Edit’ from the ads menu

(4) Paste the file URL in the ‘ad image’ field [1] and fill out the other fields [2-6]. Most fields are pretty self explanatory. The slot position [5] is depending on the website design. Finally hit ‘Save Ad’ [7]

FAQs

• what are the dimensions for the ads? – officially built for the popular 125×125 ads the ad dimension can be anything. Ask your designer or check your website style sheet.
• how many ads can I display? – as many ads as you want, and in either manual or random order although the amount of slots are defined by the website design.
• can I track the amount of clicks on the ads? – yep. By default click tracking is on.
• how long do the ads run? – depends on your Expiration setting; 30 days – 120 days, remove manually or other (custom date). The ad will be automatically taken down when the time comes.
• one of my ads hit it’s expiration date. Where did it go? – when an ad’s time duration is over, it disappears off your site, and is moved from the Active ads to Inactive ads. To access the ad again, simply click the “Inactive Ads” link on the Manage screen. The page should update to show all of your inactive ads.
• what if I don’t want an ad to be taken down automatically? – simply select “I’ll remove it manually” for the expiration date when creating the ad. Or for existing ad, change the Expiration setting to 00/00/0000 for manual removal.
• what happens with empty slots? – a placeholder ad will be displayed. This could be a “Your Ad Here” linking to a page with statistics and pricing, or an affiliate link.
• can I get a notification when an ad expires? – yup. Email notifications are set up 5 days before expiration. Useful if you send follow-up messages to advertisers, or if you just want to stay in the know.

• administrator – access to all the administration features
• editor – publish and manage posts and pages as well as manage other users’ posts, etc.
• author – publish and manage their own posts
• contributor – write and manage their posts but not publish them
• Subscriber – only manage their profile

role vs. task table

Simply post the URL to the video into the page or post content area. Make sure that the URL is on its own line and not hyperlinked (clickable when viewing the post).

For example:

Check out this cool video: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KshLPLDvdWk&feature=fvsr

That was a cool video.

WordPress will automatically turn that into a YouTube embed. In case it fails to embed the video there will be a link to the URL. This will work not only with video but also with other content like photos from Flickr etc.

Can you use any URL?

Not by default. For security reasons we only embed URLs matching an internal whitelist:

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• DailyMotion
• blip.tv
• Flickr (both videos and images)
• Viddler
• Hulu
• Qik
• Revision3
• Scribd
• Photobucket
• PollDaddy
• Google Video
• WordPress.tv (only VideoPress-type videos for the time being)

PROMO10

But avoid obvious codes like PROMO10 for 10% discount as you may find some clever customers guessing that PROMO25 gives them 25% discount!

Where do I manage my online shop?

After login into the admin area, you find your shop management on the left-hand side named ‘Products’.

Sales

All transactions that take place on your online shop. Search and filter options and download transaction results as a CSV file (for importing into spreadsheets and other databases – if you want). The ‘Details’ link will open a page detailing the order, customer information, etc.

Transaction Status

• Order Received – an order was created but IPN (PayPal’s Instant Payment Notification) has either not gone through, or the user cancelled the order (most likely). If you use PayPal as payment gateway, and a customer goes through to the payment screen, but backs out at that point the order will show as Order Received. Store owners using PayPal must manually verify the payment.
• Accepted Payment – an order was created and IPN/Gateway (PayPal) has accepted the payment (money should be in your account).
• Job Dispatched – an order was created, payment was accepted (no gateways will mark your order as job dispatched, this is an option you manually can select to email your customer with a tracking ID – from your postage system).
• Closed Order – an order was created, payment was accepted, products to be shipped have been shipped away, so you can (manually) mark the order as closed.

If you have multiple transactions with the same details the chances are that user started a transaction, got to the gateway (PayPal) and decided to change either their cart contents or billing information, hence you may have multiple Order Received and one Accepted Payment.

Products

Add and edit products. The left column lists the products and the right column contains all fields for entering/editing product details.

Product fields

• Product name – make sure the product name is unique, since this is the identifying information you’ll receive when your customer places an order.
• Product description –  this is the description of the product.
• Additional description –  this will be in a collapsed area called ‘more details’ (or displayed directly when on single product page).
• Product tags – n/r
• Select categories/brands -  Choose which categories and/or brands your product should be listed under. You may choose as many as you like. The product will not be visible if it is not in at least one category.
• Price and stock control – n/r
• Shipping Details – n/r (are set in the shop settings)
• Variation Control – if the product has any variation sets, such as colour or size, you can add them here. Note that you can set different prices for the different variations.
• Advanced Options – n/r
• Product Images – choose ‘Select Files’ to upload a product image. It will be added to the uploads directory and a thumbnail will automatically be generated.
• Product Download – if you are selling a digital product

Categories

A way to organize your product catalogue into manageable divisions.

Variations

Variations are things that can vary in a single product. Different sizes (small, medium and large) for example. You can add more than one set of variations (e.g. colours as well as sizes) to your product if needed.

Marketing

• Coupons – set up discount codes that people can enter on your checkout page. These discounts will subtract the discount amount from their shopping cart accordingly.
• Marketing Settings – n/r
• RSS Address – n/r

Where is the gallery?

After login into the admin area, you find your gallery management on the left-hand side named ‘Gallery’.

Definitions

Galleries – A collection of related images (e.g. project photos).
Albums – A collection of galleries.

Add Gallery

Before you can upload any images you need to create a gallery. Hit the ‘Add Gallery/Images’ link in the Gallery menu (left-hand side) and add your new gallery. Just think of a good name and click ‘Add gallery’.

Adding Images

Once you’ve created a gallery you can add images to it.

Upload images

Easiest is uploading images one (or more) at a time. This is done from the Upload Images tab (1). It’s a 2-step process. First select the images you want to upload (hit the ‘browse’ button). Tip: you can keep adding images. Once selected all your images choose your gallery. And hit the ‘Upload images’ button. Sit back and let the plugin do its magical work… Once you get the all clear sign ‘picture(s) successfully added’ you’re done.

Upload a Zip-file

Upload a zip file of images. This is done from the Upload a Zip-File tab (2). Same procedure, only select a zip file instead of single images.

Import image folder

Import a folder already on your website. Not relevant. Stick with the other two options…

Managing Images

Once you have images into a gallery, you can perform a number of different operations on them. Choose ‘Manage Gallery’ form the left-hand side menu and click the ‘title’ to open the gallery.

Here’s a summary of the operations that can be performed on images on the Manage Gallery page.

• Give each image an alternate & title text. The plugin will automatically fill this field with the image (file) name. It’s good practice to add a descriptive (keyword) text here.
• Give each image a description. Will be displayed under the pop up (lightbox) image.
• Exclude images from being displayed on gallery pages.
• Delete an image.
• Set a watermark on selected images.
• Specify tags for images. Not relevant.
• Generate (create) new thumbnails for selected images. Not relevant.
• Resize images. Not relevant.

Don’t forget to ‘Save Changes’.

Sort Gallery (1)

Simply drag-and-drop the thumbs to their new positions and (again) don’t forget to hit ‘Update Sort Order’ when done.

Gallery settings

Here’s a summary of the operations that can be performed on the Gallery Settings.

• Edit the name and description of the gallery. Description is good to add when you’re going to display albums (see further).
• Edit the path (leave as it is).
• Link the gallery to a page (leave ‘Not Linked’).
• Specify a preview image that will be displayed when albums to which the gallery belongs are displayed.
• Create a new page for displaying the gallery (leave as it is).

Albums

An album is a way of displaying a list of galleries.

To create an album:

• Choose ‘Album’ from the left-hand side Gallery menu.
• Type the name of your new album.
• Click the Update button.
• Once you’ve created an album, you can drag galleries from the ‘Select Gallery’ box to the Album Page box. You can also rearrange galleries in the album by dragging and dropping.

Inserting Galleries, Albums and Images into Posts/Pages

While on the edit page/post page you’ll have a handy icon on the toolbar ‘Add NextGEN Gallery’.

Selecting that gives you the option to insert a Gallery, Album or a (single) Picture.

Insert Gallery

Select your gallery. Choose ‘Image list’ or ‘Imagebrowser’.
(Slideshow needs some special settings and coding and is disabled by default).

Image list displays all images as thumbs

Imagebrowser displays one (large format) image at a time and scrolls through the gallery with the ‘back’ and ‘next’ buttons. No fancy lightbox with this one.

Insert Album

Remember an album is a collection of Galleries. Select your album. Choose ‘Extended version’ or ‘Compact version’.

Insert Picture

Only if you want to insert a single picture with a lightbox effect. Otherwise stick to the normal procedure for inserting images into posts and pages.

1. post title

The title of your post. You can use any words or phrases, commas, apostrophes, quotes, hypens/dashes, and other typical symbols.

2. permalink

After typing your title, the Permalink below the title shows the URL for the post. Commas, quotes, apostrophes, and other non-favorable characters are cleaned up and a dash is put between each word. You can manually change this if you want. Normally there is no need to mess around with the permalink.

3. toolbar

The toolbar uses the familiar icons common to word-processing software to format your post.

4. upload images

Hit the square box to launch the image uploader, which allows you to upload images into your post. The other icons are for uploading videos, audio (mp3) or media (general). Which normally is done via a plugin as this needs most of the time some sort of player as well.

5. visual or HTML view

Defines the way the content area is showing. Easiest to keep it on visual (WYSIWYG). But if you curious hit the HTML tab…

6. post edit area

The area where you enter your content.
Read this Quick tip for resizing the area.

7. excerpts

A summary or teaser of your posts. Note that the excerpt doesn’t usually appear by default. It only appears in your post if defined in the coding. If so, WordPress will automatically use the first (55) words of your post as the excerpt or up until the use of the More Quicktag mark. If you use an Explicit Excerpt, this will be used no matter what.

8. post publish box

Three big buttons: Publish to publish the post (or Update post when editing an existing post). Save Draft for saving the post to publish later. Preview allows you to sneak peak how your post will look before publishing it.

Status – main states are Published, Pending Review, and Draft.

Visibility – how does your post appears to the world. Select Public, Password-protect, or Private.

By default, posts are published immediately when you click Publish, but you can also schedule a post to be published in the future, or set the time back so that it appears to have been published in the past.

9. tags

Tags are micro-categories for your blog. Posts with similar tags are linked together when clicked one of the tags. Use your post main keywords for tags. Tags are a great way to browse through your blog (and a great SEO tool) so use them often and wisely.

10. categories

The category/topic the post can be classified in. Visitors can browse specific categories to see all posts in the category. Simply check the box(es) next to the category in the list to select categories for the post (or add a new category). You can view all categories or the most used categories. If you have not specified a category, the post will be marked as uncategorized (not a good idea…).