Problems with my website shopping cart.

kebab · 1 Oct 2013 at 22:55

Hey guys,

I am setting up a small ecommerce website using a wordpress theme that I brought and currently customising. Anyway I'm not too keen on the
current implementation of the shopping cart that came with the theme.

Whilst browsing I came across this website - http://firstclassmlmtools.com/

I think the cart on this site would work great on mine, the question is how would I go about implementing something like this? If anyone can help I would really appreciate it!

Sorry just to clarify what I want to do is emulate the slide out effect when you hover over the basket widget

Phantom Shadow · 1 Oct 2013 at 23:01

Do you have an ecommerce system on the website yet or just wordpress with theme?

kebab · 1 Oct 2013 at 23:11

Yes the site uses Woocommerece. The website that I linked uses the same theme as mine but the site owner has added his own cart. If you look at the themes demo page linked here - http://themeforest.net/item/centindu-portfolio-shop-wordpress-theme/full_screen_preview/5017521 and add something to the basket, you will notice that other than the fact that his slides into the page they seem pretty similar so I don't think it's a plug in his found.

Phantom Shadow · 2 Oct 2013 at 18:49

You should be able to work out what pieces of code are used to display the basket from woocommerce, then you would just need to design your basket and edit the wordpress theme to show it and add in the woocommerce code to fill with data.

visibleman · 2 Oct 2013 at 20:14

I'm sure it's a Plugin/Extension; have a look the Wordpress plugin site.

e - This looks like it - http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-cart-tab/

Hyburnate · 3 Oct 2013 at 14:05

Can I ask why you chose Wordpress and not something like OpenCart?

kebab · 3 Oct 2013 at 19:38

visibleman said:
I'm sure it's a Plugin/Extension; have a look the Wordpress plugin site.

e - This looks like it - http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-cart-tab/

Thanks that's it. I looked through that site several times but didn't find it.

In response to Hyburnate, I started out developing the site using html (although i'm not too savvy) and would have preferred to have continued to create it with html, due to greater control, speed and other things. I got freaked out when it came to implementing the eCommerce platform and looked for something that already had it integrated.

If OpenCart is not too difficult to implement I would much prefer to use html to create the site. What would you consider to be the pro's & cons to each?

ssddanbrown · 3 Oct 2013 at 21:13

I've recently set up a couple of shops and tried the main free ecommerce platforms including wordpress/woocommerce and opencart. In the end I think Opencart was better, or at least for my uses.
For both options you will need to know some PHP to customize the stock templates. I prefer opencart because it's a lot more focused towards being a ecommerce environment whereas Wordpress feels like it always wants to be a blog with ecommerce tacked onto the side.
If you know some html and css then play around with the stock themes, learn some basic PHP and you can quickly get the hang of it.
The best thing to do is install both options locally and see what you feel most comfortable with.

You can try out the opencart backend here: http://demo.opencart.com/admin/
Username and password are both demo. It's not as pretty as wordpress backend and has some UX issues but it is very good for eCommerce.