Basically you’re going to
1. Create product page
2. Create your product inventory
3. Insert products into page via shortcodes
4. Make your product page the home page
Did you create a product page? First go to your Pages and create a regular product page. Then go to CartPress– create your inventory. Be sure to create categories for your similar items– will make it much easier when you go to setting up your storefront page.
Once you have products, go to TCP tools at the bottom. Click on Short Code Generator. I don’t know how much you know about WordPress so I’ll explain… Short codes are easy small pieces of code that you can insert into posts and pages. These make it easy for a non-experienced coder to get a very custom look.
Fill in all the blanks– basically what you’re doing with this code generator is creating a shortcode so you can insert your product storefront onto a page. Identifier must have NO spaces. Description is for your use only, be sure to select products on post type then you can select what products you want to include. Then show the limit of products shown. Clicking advanced options allows you to select the number of columns and the information you’d like to show with your product. (ie. description, add to cart button, etc.) You’ll want to generate several short codes with different numbers of columns to give your page a custom look.
Then go back to the products page you created and insert the corresponding shortcodes (ie. [tcp_list id=”all_products”] ) There your page is created. To set this page as your homepage instead of the blog, go to Settings > Writing > Then select static page, make the homepage your products page then select a page for your blog to appear (ie. a page you created called Blog or News)