What URL to use to access the eStore?

[Darrel]

On my default.php page, I have buttons that I want to link to the eStore. So, what is the URL to the eStore?

[wzp]

You would use the URL of the WordPress pages containing eStore content.

[Darrel]

Yes. But, I don’t now what they are or how to find them or create them.

[wzp]

Based on your previous posts, I am going to assume that you have upgraded to the latest 3.x version of WordPress.

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/fatal-errors

Please review the eStore documentation, which includes a video tutorial…

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wp-estore-documentation

If there is a specific question, regarding installation or setup; we are more than happy to assist.

[Darrel]

I’m sorry. I’m not explaining myself very well. This is a new sight and the latest version of WP and WPeStore was installed last week. I watched the tutorials and looked at the documentation. The problem is all of the documentation assumes the eStore URL is http://www.’mydomainname’.com. But, for me that is not the case.

When the http://www.’mydomainname’.com is entered a web page called default.php that I designed appears; as I want it to. It is not part of WP or the eStore. By design, I don’t want the eStore to appear first. I want the eStore order form to appear when a customer clicks on one of the links that appear in default.php.

The trouble is I don’t know what URL to use for those links; the URL for the eStore. I want the the URL to look something like this: http://www.’mydomainname’.com/’eStore page’

How do I assign my eStore to a different URL than http://www.’mydomainname’.com?

[wzp]

Okay, I shall go over some basic things…

You use WordPress to create pages for your eStore. Product pages and order forms are regular WordPress pages, that have special eStore shortcodes on them. When WordPress encounters an eStore shortcode, it displays a product, order form, etc.

On your host site, you say the default.php does not start WordPress??? How do you access WordPress pages on your site now? What did you use to “design” the default.php page?

[Darrel]

I don’t. That’s the problem.

I have another website. As part of that website I have a WP blog. To access the blog, the following url is used:

http://www.mydomain.com/blog

http://www.mydomain.com calls up the main page. There is a link on the website which call up the blog. I use the link above to make that call.

Now I’ve started a new website and thought I would set it up the same way, where http://www.mydomain.com

is the default page of the new website and

http://www.mydomain.com/’name assigned to eStore’

would be the URL for the eStore order form page.

The default.php page was designed using DreamWeaver and is a working page on my other website. I made some content changes to it and uploaded it to my new website. When I enter my new website domain name, this page comes up and works fine.

Now, what URL do I use to call up the eStore?

[wzp]

Right now, on the new site, how to you call up WordPress?

If you use newsite.com/wordpress then you would create eStore pages which are added to the WordPress site. Then, you would use…

newsite.com/wordpress/catalog

newsite.com/wordpress/orderform

newsite.com/wordpress/products

The names “catalog,” “orderform,” and “products” are names of WordPress pages that you create; and insert the appropriate eStore shortcodes.

[Darrel]

Thank you so much.

newsite.com/wordpress/orderform

did the trick.

[wzp]

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