Overview

The Ultracart WordPress plugin provides a quick and easy integration of your UltraCart account with your WordPress hosted website.

This document will detail the steps to installing the UltraCart WordPress Plugin.

Installation

Getting Started

Install The plugin and Activate the plugin
Connect your site to UltraCart via Settings → UltraCart
Add eCommerce components to your site

NOTE: You can Install UltraCart eCommerce - Shopping Cart via the WordPress plugin directory, or by uploading the files manually to your server.

After becoming an UltraCart merchant, use the plugin to connect your accounts and authorize your site to use UltraCart via Settings → UltraCart in the WordPress admin menu.

Installing the plugin

The UltraCart WordPress plugin is located at the following URL:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultracart-ecommerce-shopping-cart/

Click Download to begin the installation

Installing the UltraCart Wordpress Plugin

Configuring items

Click here to View Item "how to's"

Add an item list to my site?

Go to a page or post editor and click the button to add an item list. Search for the item and add it to the page. Simply add the shortcode:
[ucitem_list itemids="blonderoast,darkroast,mediumroast"]

Add an item to my site?

Go to a page or post editor, and click the button to add the item. Search for the item and add it to the page. Simply add the shortcode:
[ucitem itemid="Hat"]

Add just an item's price to my site?

Go to a page or post editor, and click the button to add the price. Search for the item and add it to the page. Simply add the shortcode:
[uc_price itemid="Hat"]

Add a buy button to my site?

Go to a page or post editor, and click the button to add a buy button. Search for the item and add it to the page. Simply add the shortcode:
[uc_buy_button itemid="Hat" ]

Add a view cart link?

The plugin will automatically add a view cart link to the end of the primary menu. Additionally, the plugin is programmed to recognize any link with the href value of "#viewcart", or a class of "js-view-cart-snapshot" as a view cart link.

Link the list item to the single item page?

It does it automatically. It should find a link to the most recently added single item once the item's page is visited.

Assign a specific storefront host to the checkout?

The wordpress plugin makes the assignment automatically by looking at the host address of the URL when adding an item to the cart. If the domain of the wordpress site matches a domain assigned to one of your storefront hosts, it will will use that one (i.e. - www.yourdomain.com and you have secure.yourdomain.com then it will use that sotrefront when the customer checks out).

Alternatively, if the wordpress website domain matches the subdomain portion of your storefront using the ultracart built in host addresses, it will use that storefront: www.yourdomain.com, yourdomain.ultracartstore.com or yourdomain.ultracartdev.com if the storefront host does not exist.