### Quick Start with WordPress Plugin Version

It is easy to get started with in this WordPress plugin version. Please follow the steps below.

1. If you see any warning or error messages above in red, please take care of it first.
2. Please set up your PayPal Details above.
3. Set up your General Options above
4. Add a product by providing its Product Definition and uploading it.

> Please do not use spaces or special characters in your Product Codes. Use only letters, digits and underscore.
> Valid product codes:`abc_2345, ITEM02, a789, xyz` etc.
> Invalid product codes:`abc 123, ITEM:02, a-789, x+y$z` etc.

Once a product is added to your repository, your e-shop is ready to be displayed on your blog. The display is controlled using WordPress Short Codes. In order to show the whole shop, create a new page or post with the short code `[ezshop]`. This will present your whole e-shop in a neat tabular form within the page or post.

Note that by default, a page (not a post) with the slug `ez-shop` (or `ez-shop-n`, where `n` is a number like 1, 2, 3 etc.) is created for you. Please do not delete this page even if you create other e-shop pages. This page is used as the IPN listener, which will receive the messages from PayPal. This page also serves as your digital goods delivery portal. In other words, if you delete this page, your e-shop may not work at all.

Note also that you have to use pretty permalinks for the auto-generated shop front to work. Take a look at the URL address of the shop front (in the address bar on your web browser). Does it say something like http://your.blog/?p=123? If so, go to your WordPress dashboard, Settings -> Permalinks and select any setting other than the (ugly) default one.

Each product can be displayed as a "Buy Now" kind of link with the short code `[ezshop buy='product_code']Buy this product now![/ezshop]`. This will insert a link, which when clicked, will take your reader to a PayPal page to buy the product.

You can display your product links using `[ezshop show='product_code']View this product now![/ezshop]`. It will show page describing your product benefits, with a count-down timer which will take your reader to PayPal in fifteen seconds.

In either `buy=product_code` or `show=product_code` short codes, you can temporarily suppress the link generation by specifying `link='no'`, (e.g., `[ezshop show='product_code' link='no']View this product now![/ezshop]`). In this case, your whole e-shop will be displayed as though you specified just `[ezshop]`. This way, you can easily toggle between links and e-shop.

### More Help

Help is always only a click or mouseover away. The full help on all the features of this plugin is included in your download. You can browse it or print it.