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You can sell birthday greetings with this addon.

It lets your customers enter a message andÂ a recipient’s email address then they purchase the gift item. The digital gift item (a birthday greeting video, audio, PDF etc) is delivered to the recipient with the message after the transaction.

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Usage

Lets say you want to sell a birthday gift item which you have configured in the eStore plugin. The ID of this eStore product is 1.

You can add the following shortcode to a WordPress page that will let your customers buy this item and specify a recipient’s email address and a special message:

[eStore_birthday_greeting id=”1″]

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You can use the “wp_cart_display_product” shortcode to create a product display box on the fly when using the Simple WP Shopping cart plugin. This can be very handy to display your products on a post, page or sidebar easily.

Here is an exmaple shortcode that shows you how to use a product display box.

[wp_cart_display_product name="My Awesome Product" price="25.00" thumbnail="http://www.example.com/images/product-image.jpg" description="This is a short description of the product"]

Replace the values with your product specific data to show a product display box for your product(s).

The above shortcode will product a product display box similar to the following screenshot:

product display box example

Using a Product Box with Product Variation

Here is an example shortcode usage with product variation:

[wp_cart_display_product name="My Awesome Product" price="25.00" thumbnail="http://www.example.com/images/product-image.jpg" description="This is a short description of the product" var1="Size|Small|Medium|Large" var2="Color|Red|Blue|Green|Black"]

The above shortcode will display a product for sale like the following:

product box with variation

Using Shipping With the Product Box

Here is an example of how to add the shipping parameter with the product box shortcode:

[wp_cart_display_product name="My Awesome Product" price="25.00" thumbnail="http://www.example.com/images/product-image.jpg" description="This is a short description of the product" var1="Size|Small|Medium|Large" var2="Color|Red|Blue|Green|Black" shipping="5"]

Specifying an Alt Tag for the Thumbnail Image

You can use theÂ thumb_alt parameter in the shortcode to specify an alt tag for the thumbnail image to be used in the product box. Below is an example:

[wp_cart_display_product name="My Awesome Product" price="29.00" thumbnail="http://www.example.com/images/product-image.jpg" description="This is a short description of the product" thumb_alt="Test alt tag for the thumbnail image"]

Creating a Grid Display With Product Boxes

Check this tutorial to learn how you can stack the product boxes side by side.

Sell Birthday Greetings – eStore Addon