WordPress enabled for credit card payments

Do you know there are over 400 web design & development companies based in Ireland alone? We work with a lot of these guys on a daily basis, which allows us to see trends emerging as various technology platforms come in and out of fashion.

Over the past couple of years, we have seen a real evolution in the WordPress platform - not just in the number of people using it, but more importantly in how they are using it.

Originally, WordPress was considered to be a blog publishing application, and it's fair to say it was looked down on as not being a serious web development tool. At then end of 2009, there were over 200 million websites using it mainly for blogging purposes.

But WordPress's open architecture encouraged the development of a vast number of plug-in's to support web developers, and as the number of plug-in's available expanded, we have seen it become a respectable, and powerful, web development platform as well (over 25 million sites). From there it was a short step before it became an eCommerce platform, which is the phase we are now seeing reach Ireland.

To operate as an eCommerce platform, WordPress requires an eCommerce shopping cart plugin. The most popular one available is "WP e-Commerce", which claims to power eCommerce on over 500,000 WordPress web sites.

WorldNet have developed a payment plug-in that works with WP e-Commerce, which now allows any Irish WordPress site to support online payments to the Irish Acquiring Banks (AIB Merchant Services & Elavon/Bank of Ireland). This payment plug-in is available FREE to any Irish web developer - just contact us via our web site.