Knowledgebase - Getting Started with ShopperPress

Download and Upload The ShopperPress Theme File

Firstly, ShopperPress is a Wordpress Theme. You MUST have Wordpress installed and you MUST upload the ShopperPress theme folder to your wordpress themes directory.

The ShopperPress download is a .ZIP file which contains the theme and numerous other files so make sure you extract it on your desktop and ONLY upload the folder named 'ShopperPress' to your Wordpress Themes folder.

This is commonly: /wp-content/themes/

NOTE: You should only upload the folder named 'shopperpress' to your wordpress themes folder.
Do not upload the entire download and MAKE SURE you do not rename the folder.

IT MUST BE 'ShopperPress' for it to work correctly.

Once you have upload the folder 'shopperpress' to your Wordpress theme directory you must then login to the admin area, click on 'Appearence' -> 'Themes' to view all the available Wordpress themes and the ShopperPress theme should now be present.

Click and activate the theme to get started!.

ShopperPress Custom Fields

All products are managed the same way you would a normal blog post. You can add, edit and delete product items using the Wordpress admin area interface.

Custom Fields

There are a number of custom fields that allow you to attach special items to each product for display on your website, they are;

Creating ShopperPress Check / Dashboard Pages

To get the checkout and dashboard pages working on your ShopperPress install you must create two pages and asign them a custom field telling Wordpress to use these pages differently from the rest.

Checkout Page - Custom Fields

To create these pages you must login to your wordpress admin area, click on pages and create a new page.

Give the page title the value 'checkout' and create a custom field called 'type' and give this a value of 'checkout'.

Save the newly created page and then click on ShopperPress (from the left menu navigation) - General Settings and enter the link for the new page into the text box for checkout link.

This will then link your website checkout buttons.

Dashboard Page

ShopperPress has a built in dashboard allowing customers to edit their customer account.

Before you can use this you must first create the page in wordpress admin area.

Give the page title the value 'dashboard' and select the template value from the right menu selecting 'ShopperPress Customer Dashboard'.

Save the newly created page and then click on ShopperPress (from the left menu navigation) - General Settings and enter the link for the new page into the text box for dashboard link.

This will then link your website checkout buttons.

Adding articles to your website.

Adding articles is no different from adding new posts except you add an extra custom field called 'type' with the value 'article.

Make sure you add all your articles to an Article category which you can add if you don't already have one setup.