WooCommerce

It is a powerful, extendable ecommerce plug-in that keeps record of incoming sales and reviews, stock levels, and general store performance. WooCommerce can be downloaded for free, with extensions and themes (premium and third-party) available for purchase. Its other features include product and inventory management, a customer account area, control over shipping and tax charges, powerful analytics, flat rate shipping, PayPal standard gateway, and simple offline gateways for payments.

Ready! Ecommerce Shopping Cart

This free plug-in is a shopping-cart solution that allows the users to create products from either pages or posts and also includes a basic XML feed. The configurable shipping address feature and order tracker allow you to keep track of all of your transactions and sort your transactions’ list. It helps you customise product options, create product variations, and import and export products in CSV formats. It includes support for multiple gateways like PayPal, Google Wallet, Pay on delivery method, manual payment, and e-Processing network.

eShop

eShop is a free ecommerce plug-in that allows customers to create profiles to sign up on your site to purchase your services or products. It has a simple interface for quick browsing and purchase. It includes features like shipping and tax options, basic inventory control, and multiple product options. Moreover, it allows you to download your sales data for your convenience. Adding products and customising settings is also very easy on eShop.

WP e-Commerce

This easy-to-install, customisable shopping cart has been popular for several years. The plug-in is available as a free download, with a variety of features such as support for multiple currencies, Google and PayPal Checkout integration, inventory control, flexible coupon and quantity discounts, and control over shipping calculations. This WordPress ecommerce plug-in helps simplify the shopping experience for your customers by offering new product widgets and free shipping options.

WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart

It is a simple-to-use, yet highly customisable plug-in that can be integrated to any existing site or Facebook profile. It outsources tax calculations and location-based shipping to PayPal.

Jigoshop

This marvellous WordPress ecommerce plug-in allows you to set up your online shop in minutes with physical and downloadable products. You can create multiple product types and apply detailed attributes so that customers can easily refine your catalogue with just a couple of clicks. Inside the dashboard, sales graphs, stats on stores together with review notifications can give a huge impact to any business.

Cart 66 Lite

If your blog site offers several products and services, then use this wonderful WordPress ecommerce plug-in to manage orders effectively and sell products from any page or post. Cart 66 has a unique feature that I think makes it a better fit depending on the needs of your ecommerce project. It offers affiliate platform integration and Amazon S3 integration for all of your digital products. Furthermore, it also includes built-in recurring billing and memberships with all top payment gateways. Another great feature of Cart 66 Lite is that it makes shipping of both physical and digital products easy.

MarketPress

It is a powerful shopping cart plug-in that includes multiple payment gateways, Google Analytics Ecommerce tracking, shipping, sale pricing, customisable email reports, and more. Download this easy-to-use plug-in to set up your stylish online EBay-style network of stores.

WP Online Store

This WordPress ecommerce plug-in gives you the ability to easily integrate an online shopping cart into any WordPress theme. It includes features like order editor, product sort order, Discount Coupon Codes Manager, Information Page creator, built-in HTML newsletter system with mass email software, auto sales tax calculation, inventory tracking system, credit card validation, global bestsellers list,  and advanced administration tools.

Quick Shop Plug-in

It is a popular lightweight cart plug-in that only works with PayPal. It adds a sidebar which displays the visitor’s shopping cart along the page. It allows the merchant to set the currency, supports built-in email functionality, provides the option to add products to pages with a TinyMCE button and even provides free shipping for orders exceeding a certain amount. Merchants can remove any item from their shopping cart.

Ecwid Shopping Cart

It is a free ecommerce plug-in which is very easy to install. It is a fully featured shopping card system that can easily integrate with your social profiles. The free plan offers e-commerce widgets for WordPress whereas paid plans add features like volume discounts, discount codes and inventory management.

CataBlog

If you want to create catalogs, stores and galleries for your blog, then customize your ecommerce site with this plug-in. CataBlog comes with a full developer guide that you can use to create and customize a module for your site. With CataBlog, you can create widgets for displaying your catalog and catalog categories in sidebars. Aside from filtering by multiple categories with one ShortCode, sorting your catalog by title or order is also an option.

TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart

It is a free WordPress ecommerce plug-in that can be used as shopping cart, catalog or framework. Not only is it compatible with many existing plug-ins in the WordPress repository, but you can also extend its functionality with themes.

DukaPress

It is a free ecommerce plug-in that integrates a shopping cart with WordPress in an efficient manner. Moreover, it has more pre-built themes than other ecommerce plug-ins.

Are PayPal Plug-in

If you want to restrict the guests from seeing the hidden content of your ecommerce site like intellectual property or digital arts, customize your blog with Are PayPal plug-in. In order to see and access exclusive content of your blog, one will need to register on your site. This WordPress ecommerce plug-in uses Pay Pal – IPN protocol so that payment is quick and automatic.

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One of the reasons this happened is of course WordPress openness to 3rd party plugin development. Which means that any developers who learn quite simple plugin creation rules can can extend WordPress, add new functionality or even integrate WordPress with any other popular CMS out there.

We have listed some great WordPress plugins in previous posts (best mobile plugins, plugins for integrating Facebook and others) and this time we have prepared the list of very useful WordPress plugin development tutorials. You will find how to create plugins, how to structure, design and install. This tutorial list is no short and suits everyone, from beginners to experienced WordPress plugin developers. Enjoy!

1.  Writing a Plugin – WordPress Codex

This tutorial is by WordPress Codex team, the team which is behind actual WordPress development. Section of the tutorial goes through the steps you need to follow, and things to consider when creating a well-structured WordPress Plugin.

2. How to Install WordPress Plugins

Plugins are tools which provide additional functionality to your application. To install a plugin you generally just need to put the plugin file into your ‘wp-content/plugins’ directory. Once a plugin is installed, you may activate it or deactivate it from the Plugins menu in your WP administration.

3. Create WordPress Plugins with OOP Techniques

Building a WordPress plugin with an object oriented code is fairly clean and efficient if you will compare it with procedural code. You can expand using inheritance techniques, which could be very helpful when creating a large plugin.

4. WordPress Essentials: How To Create A WordPress Plugin

To create a plugin, all you need to do is create a folder and then create a single file with one line of content. Inside the new folder, create a file ending with the letters .php. Open the file in a text editor, and paste the following information in it. However, if you intend to distribute your plugin, you should add as much data as possible. With that out of the way, you can go into the back end to activate your plugin.

5. Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Plugin Development

In this tutorial there are basic steps required to create a simple WordPress plug-in. The functionality is used to create dynamic excerpts based on the number passed into the function call. You will just need to upload the plug-in file and activate from the Admin panel, then follow up by calling the function from whatever pages you want the excerpt to appear.

6. A Crash-Course in WordPress Plugin Development

When creating a WordPress plugin, the first step is to make sure that you have access to a WordPress installation. Create a plugins folder, then outline the plugins and afterwards create a filter. Filters are functions that WordPress passes data through, at certain points in execution, just before taking some action with the data. Then program a function for this plugin. Finally, return to your WordPress admin panel, and click on the “Plugins” tab.

7. Useful Tutorials For Creating Your First WordPress Plugin

WordPress plugins allow you to extend your default WordPress installation with almost any kind of functionality, you can download a vast collection of plugins from the WordPress plugin repository or you can create your own. This site has elaborated Cleary on how to go about it.

8. Create a Custom WordPress Plugin From Scratch

This tutorial describes the implementation of a WordPress plugin starting from scratch. The plugin will connect to an external OSCommerce database and display random products on your WordPress site. It also implements a configuration page for the WordPress admin panel.

9. Anatomy of a WordPress plugin

Creating a wordpress pluggin will only need a basic understanding of the PHP programming language and some information on how WordPress expects your plugin to behave.  The simple steps to follow include:

• Creating a pluggin template
• Adding Functionality
• Making the Widget
• Creating settings menu for updating the widget preferences.

10.  How to Write a Basic WordPress Plugin

Plugins for WordPress can be very elaborate and require significant programming expertise to develop.  But learning to develop a WordPress plugin doesn’t have to be difficult; you can start small and grow your skills over time.  The simple steps include naming your plugin file and subdirectory.  Name using lower case and underscores.  Add a plugin header and afterwards a filtering function and complete the plugin.

11. Writing Your First Plugin for WordPress: A Primer

In this tutorial, you will get an idea on the possibility of adding your own customized processes, enhancements and functions, without the need to touch the core system.

12. The Ultimate Guide to Building a WordPress Plugin

The first thing is to generate ideas and reasons to write a WordPress plugin. If your plugin idea seems simple enough to create from scratch, try using your plugin idea as your sample application instead of spending time building a useless application that you’ll never use, just for practice. Generally, the best practice is to start researching other existing plugins and work on ideas to improve them.

13. Building a WordPress plugin: Tweetable

This tutorial will guide you in creating a WordPress plugin from scratch that is tweetable. It will take in the latest five tweets and display them in your WordPress sidebar.

14. Create Database Tables for Your WordPress Plugin

Database tables are used to save info used by a plugin. To be able to develop your WordPress further, you need to learn how to work with and create more database tables. With a plugin specific table, you can define the precise data structure needed for your plugin development.

15. WordPress plugin development from scratch

4 part tutorial covering most of the tasks you will have to do while creating your first WordPress plugin.

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jRating

jRating is flexible and easy to work with AJAX based star rating system.
It allows customization and setup of all elements visitor sees on the screen. Free to use and Open Source.
Live demo site with many implementation examples lives here.

jQuery Raty

We featured jQuery Raty plugin on Enfew two years ago and it remains as one of the most liked 3rd party rating plugins for jQuery out there. It has good support from developer community on GitHub (456 likes!).
Worth to give it a go if you are looking for time proven solution.

Colour rating system

Colorful rating system created by Marco Kuiper  from Macrofolio.  This system is using jQuery colour plugin  and CSS3.
Even if its not released as stand alone jQuery plugin we think this example is very nice and can be great help for your projects. It makes web rating look nice!

 jQuery Star Rating

?rfan Durmu? has created this jQuery plugin for adding star ratings to your web projects. On the plugins home you’ll find his clear instructions on how to implement and make best use of it.

jQuery Bar Rating

Great bar rating plugin for jQuery created by Kazik (Netboy).
It takes much different approach on look and feel for rating elements within web projects which makes them more user friendly and innovative. Personally, we are loving it and might even use in our site redesign project!
Check the plugin code on GitHub and example implementations on demo site.

Mobile Star ratings with Mobiscroll

And here is something for your mobile application projects with jQuery rating systems in them.
Mobiscroll is an open source and free to use JavaScript library which works well with jQuery, jQuery Mobile and some other JavaScript frameworks. It allows you to build elements and components for mobile applications with great look and feel. Give it a try and see if this is something you have been looking for.

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