Turn Your WordPress Blog into a Classified Website

The WordPress Classified Theme will turn your simple WordPress blog into a powerful money making Classified website. As you already know, classifieds are growing day by day and there are thousands of free classified out there like Craigslist, OLX, Locato and other. These are big companies and can afford to offer free classifieds. You have to be different. Choose a niche locality, preferably an area where you are living… which is big enough market… maybe take your city and start a classified on WordPress where you offer premium services and then charge for every classified ad.

No business can run for free, after all you would have to pay for your WordPress hosting and other expenses. What better way to charge customers and provide them with a good service. I don’t think any customer would mind paying $2 for posting their advertisement if they know that it will be viewed by thousands of local buyers.

I think this is an automatic and easy business that everyone can experiment… what do you have to loose?

Check out the free demo of the classified WordPress theme.

WP E-Commerce Plugin Vs Market Theme

Yesterday I had posted an article on WP e-commerce plugin and today i am comparing it with Market Theme, which is an ecommerce shopping cart for WordPress. When I went over to Market Theme, they had a demo which looked very much like an ecommerce website and not a blog at all where as WP ecommerce plugin looked more like a blog. This is a personal preference, if your purpose is primarily selling then you would be better off with Market Theme but if blogging is your motive and selling a product is a side business on it then go for the other.

Both companies have listed comparison between the two on their websites but they differ significantly, I would recommend you go through before making your final selection. Market theme is not free. It cost $55 for the standard license.

There is one thing which I liked about Market Theme, the way they let you add a product and checkout immediately without having to fill out forms etc. The 1 click checkout helps increase sales as most of the time you would loose a customer by asking them to fill out forms or create logins.

Market Theme is placing themselves as not just a plugin but an entire ecommerce packaged theme.

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1. WP Shopping Cart

WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin

Have you ever wondered how you could make money from your blog? Not from Adsense and not even from Affiliates but from selling products which you have. If you are blogging on your fashion blog, you could sell fashion cloths or accessories on the blog itself. Your readers would buy from you because of the trust which you have created from your blog.

If you thought is is very tough to e-commerce enable your blog, then think again. WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin will come to your rescue, not only it is easy to install just like any other plugin but it also comes with the great backend admin to let you easily add products. You can choose from PayPal, Google Checkout, Authorize Net etc as your preferred payment gateways and all this you get for Free!

There is free support available for the plugin on their forums incase you get stuck with something. Here is what a customer had to say about the Plugin

“I needed a ecommerce solution for clients websites. A lot of customers wanted a blog and have one or two products to sell. WP is a great tool and your ecommerce solution is the best I have found. You have the best product available.” Jeff

Head over to Instinct’s website to download the plugin.

Cheap yet Reliable Hosting for India

Finding a web host in India is no easy job. It’s hard to review most of them as there are no such existing reviews. Most of them are not just hosts but also sell domain names, SEO, designing and other services and therefore it is hard to believe it they will do justice to your hosting account.

If you are looking for a affordable web hosting in India then look no further. I introduce to you www.SpeedHost.in. Not only they are reliable (I know first hand as some of my clients are using their services) but they are also very cheap. Their starter package cost only Rs.600 a year for 100MB web space.

The best part is the easy to pay, you can choose from paypal / credit card or use online netbanking for almost all popular banks (HDFC, ICICI, AXIS etc.) and you can also choose to pay offline by cheque.

Go ahead and buy hosting.

WordPress Newspaper Themes

I had previously mentioned about the Wordpress Magazine Theme, which is very good if you want to start an online magazine. But what if you want to start an online newspaper? Magazine and Newspaper layouts are fundamentally different where Newspaper layouts emphasis more on text orientation then graphics and photographs.

In their own words “We have received a lot of positive feedback for WpNewspaper theme that was previously released and also many requests to tweak it and release an advanced version. That is the story behind advanced version of WpNewspaper. It is now extremely easy to start an e-newspaper site even for a startup user of WordPress with Wp Advanced Newspaper theme. The new template contains a lot of new features, including, but not limited to, eye-catching featured entries, and a unique newspaper layout that is easy to navigate and powerful.”

Head over to gabfirethemes to view a live demo of the WP Newspaper Theme.