Can I Put My Page On My Wordpress Site?

Do you want the shopping cart widget? I think it comes in a few different forms.

You can see mine here at bridburg.com under shop.

Behind the scenes under shopping cart widgets is where you will find the selection.

You can link with href an embedded link in the text. Is that what you are after? If so
Google href to see the different coding options. Others might have a handy link to what you need.
I dont right at this moment.

href is very versatile when you get a feel for what it does.

Dave

Yes! I want the cart on my WP site. What is href? Where do i find the shopping cart widgets?

Behind the scenes under shopping cart widgets.

href make for embedded links.

At the bottom of my bio is a href to Designerprints.com.

With an href you put the link in and put in what you want the link to read as.

So people only see what you want people to read, not the actually link.

The shopping cart widget I think is based on an embedded link that might be
an href.

Dave

Found it and copied and pasted, but the page didn't come up-only the link. Tell me what you see- http://starwestphotography.com/fine-art-gallery/

You need to add it, not in the text box as text, but in the html box.... I have my faa slide show on my front page here on my wordpress site...
www.artist4god.net It shows 10 of my images from faa that can be clicked on to bring people to my sales page...btw, i doubled it's size

Nice-how do you add it in the html box? It just says to copy and paste the embed code.......

If you mean on wordpress- the visual/text options, I did it both ways and only the link comes up and when you do go to the link,it turns black in a few moments

Wordpress doesn't allow the linking of the cart on their pages as far as I know. Edited....You have a paid Wordpress site? Mine is a .wordpress.com site and it doesn't allow widgets to be added. I think if you have a paid site, it should work. Try doing a search through the forum. I thought somebody had posted about this a bit ago. Sorry can't be of more help!

@Star West - It depends on the type of Wordpress site your have, if it's wordpress.org ( on a site you are hosting) then what you've done should work, it won't work on a wordpress.com blog.
If you want a free blogging site that supports the widget use Blogger

Here is a test page on Blogger http://paulgulliver.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/blog-post.html

Thank you everyone!
I have a wordpress.com site- I paid extra to have the .com address and extra for something else, but I don't even know what now. As you can see, I'm not that computer savvy. Grew up in the days of film and my Nikon fully manual FM2.
Does anyone know if I switch to a different site, can I keep my web address?

Sorry Star, that I didn't get back you.... what I do when I add "html code" is put in under the tab (when you edit a page in Wordpress) it would go in the "Text" tab (not the visual)... I haven't tried the shopping cart being added...I think I'll try it now.

Okay, that worked like a charm! See it here: ( http://www.artist4god.net/mygallery/00-shop/ ) . I just made a new "page" and copied and pasted the shopping cart html into that.

Star,

The problem for the non techs is that WordPress .org is very tough to learn up front. The learning curve is
very steep. But you pay for hosting at somewhere like BlueHost and you get WP .org for free.

You have paid for WP .com and their hosting the actually site on their servers. My guess.

Ask WP .com if you can put up a .org site and pull down your .com site. If you want the full functionality.

Look at the videos on this site eMediaCoach.com for the free theme and slider widget. Watch the video on how
to set up the theme etc in particular. The video you need primarily is 1 hour and 20 minutes. Watch it once through.

Then watch it and stop it, do what it tells you in order to set up part of the site on .org, then watch some more and do some more.

This .org will allow you full functionality.

Before you begin decide if this is for you. So to do that just watch the video on how to set up a website. eMediaCoach.com

I will double check now that that indeed is the site. The videos are on YouTube I think,so if it is too much stop and go, then directly
go to YouTube to see the video.

Yep it is the right link...

http://emediacoach.com

Dave

It looks great Rose! Beautiful work! Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work for wordpress.com.........

Bummer! I'm sorry about that....mine is a wordpress blog tho? Maybe it depends on which blog template you are using?

I am using Current Theme: Mantra

By Cryout CreationsVersion 1.9.9.7

Thanks Dave!
I'll check. i wonder what they charge? It's hard to tell.
Do you know if I can keep my website name if i switch to a different site?
Do you know any free ones that will let you use the shopping widget?

Just out of curiosity, I tried it on my Blogger Blog and it works there too.... can you import Blogger Posts to your Wordpress?

http://artists4god.blogspot.com/2015/02/my-art-for-sale-on-fine-art-america.html (Don't laugh...my Blogger Blog is UGLY and needs updating!)

Another option is to just have each page "redirect" to you pages on FAA or your Artists Website....I have done that on most of my pages.... somebody click on my "Animals Art" link and it goes directly to my Animal Artwork on my Artists Website.

Blogger is totally free, BTW...

Thanks! So to redirect-you just put the link-where?
Do you know if you can keep the same address if you change your websites?

Rose-it looks like you may have a wordpress theme but through a different server?

Rose,

Slow down. All of this is in a frame work. You need actual direct answers from WP .com, not from me.

What I am giving you is what you need to use thinking through questions for them.

When you have much more resonance with the topic this all gets easier. Relax. You have time.

Dave

David, why do I need to "slow down"...sheesh!

Star, to redirect you create a page...before you finish it and "publish it" ....go to the bottom of that page add the link (to where on FAA you want that blog page to send people) where it says "Page links to"...click on "alternate URL" and "open this link in a new window"...

For an example, go to my website www.Artist4God.net and click on my "animals and insects" link and it will take you to my work on my FAA Artists Websites of that theme.

Misspoke I meant Star needs direct answers from the providers to sort out what she thinks.

Good luck Star,

Dave

Okay, I see, thanks

Star,

We need to let you call the providers and let the framework of how this all works set in.

I do not know if WP.com will allow you to switch to a WP.org website. I do think you are paying more
with WP.com hosting. You need in your mind to define hosting v website builder. What is free etc
and the ins and outs of what you can do with these services. How hard it is the very first time you build
a WP.org site v how much time you want to put in.

WP .org will give you the power, but I have a feeling you are not techie enough to do it "EASILY". Or easily enough.

It took me four days to make my first site. That is record time. It was good, but also poor enough to need to make
a second site all over again. I had to sign up for multiple site hosting. I then made the second site in four hours and called
my hosting service, Bluehost, to ask them to switch the primary site over to the new URL/domain/second site. I then again called
Bluehost to get a refund on the unused hosting and put me back to just them hosting one site/url. They did all of that gratefully.

That is a twisted story most people would have a hard time following. You can get lost in this stuff. Easily. You are not alone.

You need to calculate all of this. You can not get 100 messages here in this forum to make these decisions.

I will promise you that if you need help here and there or good ideas etc, they are here in this forum. But they are
not comprehensive answers all of the time.

Dave

Thanks Dave&Rose!
No, I am not very techie.
Do you know if I switch sites if I can keep my website address from wordpress?
starwestphotography.com

An easy way to see how to code successfully is to go to a web page with the functionality you need and then "view source". You can then copy the code and customize it for your page.