here are the main steps to create your own wordpress store in 2012:

1. install wordpress.
2. choose the right e – commerce plugin for your needs.
3. pick one theme answering all your design wishes.

Installing WordPress

if you wish to install locally you can use xampp.

if you want to install on a server, most of them have auto install for wordpress.

Download the latest release of WordPress.

Unzip the downloaded file to a folder on your hard drive.

open a new database with phpmyadmin.

more details about how to install wordpress:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

E – Commerce Plugins

the most popular and most used plugin is WP e-commerce. (http://getshopped.org/)

but there are more plugins:

Ecwid

Ecwid is a free full-featured shopping cart and an e-commerce solution that can easily be added to any blog or Facebook profile. It offers the performance and flexibility you need, with none of the hassles you don’t.
“Ecwid” stands for “ecommerce widgets”.

eShop

eShop is an accessible shopping cart plugin for WordPress, packed with various features.

Jigoshop

Jigoshop is an eCommerce plugin for WordPress developed by professionals with years of experience delivering online shops for global brands.

 Cart66

The Cart66 WordPress ecommerce plugin makes it easier to make money online than ever before.  Not only can you sell physical products, digital products, and services, Cart66 will also turn your WordPress site into a membership website allowing you to sell subscription access to your content.

Shopp

Shopp is built to belong in WordPress: seamless administration tools, widgets, shortcodes, custom menus, post types and taxonomy support – take your pick. Shopp is the WordPress e-commerce plugin that sets the bar for a natural WordPress experience.

woocommerce

Transform your WordPress website into a thorough-bred online eCommerce store. Delivering enterprise-level quality & features whilst backed by a name you can trust. Say hello to WooCommerce.

 Wordpress Store Themes

Sentient

Sentient is a smart, innovative WooCommerce theme. Products are cleverly aligned using jQuery masonry allowing you to cleanly showcase a great number of products on your shop pages without any wasted space. Sentient has also been fully optimised for use on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones.

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WP Flexishop 2

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ShopMe

“ShopMe” is a theme designed and developed by us in collaboration with wpfeed.com. the theme is working with wp e-commerce newest version 3.8 which is now intended to work with the latest wordpress releases and use the custom post type features.

you can create your own store very easily now. the theme features a very fancy carousel, top products in homepage and sidebar widgets. you can control the main menu and some more options comes naturally with the theme.

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ReStored – WP Ecommerce for Easy Digital Downloads

ReStored is built to make use of the Easy Digital Downloads ecommerce plugin, making your WordPress install an awesome looking store. ReStored makes it easy to get your digital products front and center to start making sales.

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Argentum

Argentum is a WooCommerce theme featuring a unique, responsive design optimised for mobile devices. It is the perfect theme for selling your catalog of products, small or large to users at their desktop computers, or on their smartphones.

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Mazine WordPress Theme

Flexible e-commerce theme, with wp-e-commerce plugin, ajax contact form, animated sortable gallery and much much more

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SiSo: Woo Commerce WordPress theme

Mojo Themes – All e-commerce themes

ThemeForest – All e-commerce thems

Pinterest Theme

Pinterest WordPress theme is a premium theme that exactly resembles your favorite Pinterest site. The theme delivers multi column layout with facility to add any number of pins to the pinboard.

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Gridnik – Elite Portfolio WordPress Theme

Gridnik is a WordPress Theme for those who dare to be unique! With it’s flexible layout it can be resized to large sized monitors or even to small and narrow screens e.g. Mobile Phones. It also comes in 9 slick colors enhanced with 15 font’s options served by Google! Can you feel it?

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The Narrow Way WordPress Theme

The Narrow Way is a powerful WordPress Theme Pack including 2 stand-alone themes

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FolioGrid Pro – A Next Generation WordPress Portfolio Theme.

Designed to be a fluid WordPress Portfolio Theme, FolioGrid has shown an impressive flexibility to be used for much more. Video embedding, fluid layouts and multiple colour schemes make FolioGrid Pro great.

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iPhoto Free WordPress Theme Like Pinterest!

Create amazing photo blogs with the iPhoto free WordPress theme! The theme is a best of clone for Pinterest!

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Imbalance 2

Imbalance 2 turns you WordPress-based website to an attractive blog, portfolio or even online magazine. This free template designed in strict modern style with a minimalistic touch. Imbalance 2 can easily fresh up your web-magazine or blog. Due to modern flexible features and layout Imbalance 2 fits to almost any project and your visitors won’t remain indifferent.

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ecoStrips

A funky new theme to showcase your posts in a slick, dynamic wall that arranges itself beautifully based on the user’s screen size. Also bundled is the ‘Dynamic filter’ plugin that lets your users filter your posts dynamically with one click. Get on with the Pinterest craze with ecoStrips!

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Gridler – WordPress Portfolio Theme

Gridler is a grid-based portfolio theme with a tumblr style blog supporting a range of post formats.

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Rustik – Minimalist E-Commerce Ready Theme

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Bravo WordPress Theme – A WordPress e-Commerce Theme

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Woo Commerce Theme – Super Store

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Fluence – A Flexible ECommerce WordPress Theme

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WP Mobile: A Mobile WordPress Blog, Store & Downloads Manager

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Digital Delivery Marketplace App:

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WP Marketplace: A Digital Delivery Theme by Sean Sr.

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FX Star – WordPress Theme

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a plugin that scans your blog and collects likes, share and comments data about your blog. then you can show your top liked, commented and shared posts. including widgets.

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Installation

After downloading “Ultimate Facebook Stats”, extract the folder and upload “Ultimate Facebook Stats” folder to wp-content/plugins.

go to Plugins tab in the wordpress admin and activate “Ultimate Facebook Stats”.

Collect Information about your posts

you can have facebook stats for your posts in two ways:

1) let visitors visit your posts and slowly all your stats will be collected. (each visit to a post updates the facebook stats in the database)
2) scan manually all your posts by pressing the button below. this option can take some time depend on the amount of posts you have in your blog.

Widgets

there are 3 widgets comes with the plugin, Top Liked Posts, Top Shared Posts and Top Commented Posts. use them if you have widgetized sidebar

Use manually

if you want to insert the top posts manually to your theme, call this function:

ufs_show_top_posts(5, ‘like_count’, $showcounter = ‘yes’, $showurl = ‘yes’ )

parameters to pass:

1) How many posts to show

2) Which kind of top do you wish to display:

top likes – ‘like_count’

top shares – ‘share_count’

top comments – ‘commentsbox_count’

Examples

show top 5 liked posts (with counter and url)

<h2>TOP LIKED POSTS</h2>
<?php echo ufs_show_top_posts(5, 'like_count','yes','yes'); ; ?>

show top 5 shared posts (with counter and url)

<h2>TOP SHARED POSTS</h2>
<?php echo ufs_show_top_posts(5, 'share_count','yes','yes'); ; ?>

show top 5 commented posts (with counter and url)

lt;h2>TOP COMMENTED POSTS</h2>
<?php echo ufs_show_top_posts(5, 'commentsbox_count','yes','yes'); ; ?>

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we are proudly presents our first free plugin: “ultimate author box”, download and enjoy!

Ultimate Author Box

Use this plugin to show more information about your blog authors.

More features:

- Display fancy author box on each post automatically

- Show your facebook, twitter, linkedin and google links

- Style the author box by yourself

- Add your avatar to the author box

Install:

Unzip and upload folder to wp-content/plugins folder

Go to plugins and activate “Ultimate Author Box”

How to use it:

Go to setting - ultimate author box

Choose where to display your ultimate author box.

Style your box with the color picker.

Then go to your profile edit page:

Users – your profile (Extra profile information)

Here you can add or edit your:

Description,

Facebook, twitter, linkedin and google links

And add an avatar.

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ENJOY!!!

many new features are available, fancy new look for the admin, excellent new media uploader with drag and drop options, more compatibility with iPad, pointer tips to introduce new features and many more…

For Users

Experienced users will appreciate the new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, the new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and the new Tumblr importer. We’ve also been thinking a ton about what the WordPress experience is like for people completely new to the software. Version 3.3 has significant improvements there with pointer tips for new features included in each update, a friendly welcome message for first-time users, and revamped help tabs throughout the interface. Finally we’ve improved the dashboard experience on the iPad and other tablets with better touch support.

For Developers

here’s a list of all the changes: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.3

There is a ton of candy for developers as well. I’d recommend starting your exploration with the new editor API, new jQuery version, better ways to hook into the help screens, more performant post-slug-only permalinks, and of course the entire list of improvements on the Codex and in Trac.

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Offline Credit Card Processing

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http://www.visser.com.au/wp-ecommerce/plugins/offline-credit-card-processing/

in your function.php, paste this code:

add_filter( ‘pre_site_transient_update_core’, create_function( ‘$a’, “return null;” ) );

Google is trying to compete with facebook’s like button. they released a social button called +1 (plus one), when you want to show that you loved the article (somebody said “like”), you press on the +1 button and the counter adds one.

Now you can add +1 button to your wordpress website, we suggest to wait a few weeks to see if it’s not just a “buzz” but if you want to add it here are the steps:

1) go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/index.html.

2) customize and choose the setting for your button.

3) copy the lines in the text area :

<!– Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag –><script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js”></script>
<!– Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render –><g:plusone></g:plusone>

and add it to your post or insert to a page in your theme.

THAT’S IT!

Admin Bar – contains various links to useful admin screens. By default, the admin bar is displayed when a user is logged in and visiting the site and is not displayed in admin screens for single blog installs. For multisite installs, the admin bar is displayed both when visiting the site and in the admin screens.

Internal Linking – click a button for an internal link and it allows you to search for a post or browse a list of existing content and select it for inclusion.

Post Formats – meta information that can be used by themes to customize presentation of a post. Read more in the article Post Formats. It’s about time to say, why not just add a new feature of post template like with pages.

Network Admin – move Super Admin menus and related pages out of the regular admin and into a new Network Admin screen.

List-type Admin Screens – sortable columns for list-type screens and better pagination.

Exporter/Importer Overhaul – many under the hood changes including adding author information, better handling for taxonomies and terms, and proper support for navigation menus.

Custom Content Type Improvements – allows developers to generate archive pages, and have better menu and capability controls. Read more in the article Post Types.

Refreshed Blue Admin Color Scheme – puts the focus more squarely on your content.