Sell Media Sell photos, prints, videos and pdf’s online through WordPress in seconds. Everything you need to sell your photography online. Build an army of loyal customers. Keep 100% of all sales!
Description Sell Media
Sell Media is finely tailored e-commerce solution for selling photos, prints, and videos through your self-hosted WordPress site. Photographers love it for it’s flexibly gallery layouts and powerful extensions.
Using Sell Media, you can:
- Sell photos, galleries, videos, pdf’s and other digital files.
- Create you own stock photo or video site.
- Charge licensing fees for commercial, editorial, or personal usages.
- Protect file uploads.
- Accept payments via PayPal. Additional payment gateways are also available.
** Horizontal Masonry Layouts – New in version 2.4.2 **
Horizontal masonry layouts for thumbnails can be enabled on Sell Media -> Settings -> Thumbnail Layout
RESOURCES
THEME INTEGRATION
These WordPress themes were designed to enhance the functionality of Sell Media. Sell Media also works with any properly coded WordPress theme, however, some minor styling tweaks might be required.
Take Sell Media to the next level with these powerful extensions:
- Sell photo prints
- Sell Subscription Plans
- Cloud Backups
- Watermark your images
- Newsletter integration with Mailchimp
- Sales Commissions
- And many more
INSTANT SETUP
If you’re having difficulties getting Sell Media set up, check out VisualSociety.com. Visual Society is our new fully-hosted e-commerce platform powered by Sell Media and WordPress. This new platform also includes automated print fulfillment worldwide!
DEVELOPERS
ACTIONS
Example for adding a message above the cart:
function sell_media_above_cart_function() {
print '<p>This message will show up above the cart on the cart popup. You could include a copyright message or links to your terms of service.</p>';
}
add_action( 'sell_media_above_cart', 'sell_media_above_cart_function' );
Example for adding a message below the cart:
function sell_media_below_cart_function() {
print '<p>This message will show up below the cart on the cart popup. You could include a copyright message or links to your terms of service.</p>';
}
add_action( 'sell_media_below_cart', 'sell_media_below_cart_function' );
Action hooks available:
- sell_media_above_archive_content – Above archive content
- sell_media_below_archive_content – Below archive content
- sell_media_above_archive_header_content – Above archive header content
- sell_media_below_archive_header_content – Below archive header content
- sell_media_above_archive_header_content
- sell_media_above_cart – Above the cart
- sell_media_below_cart – Below the cart
- sell_media_cart_below_licenses – Between license and price on cart
- sell_media_menu_hook – settings.php – Use for adding new submenu pages
- sell_media_register_settings_hook – settings.php – Use for registering new settings/options
- sell_media_settings_above_general_section_hook – settings.php – Above tables on settings page
- sell_media_settings_below_general_section_hook – settings.php – Below tables on settings page
I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at two WordCamps this year, both on the topic of selling images with WordPress. That is a topic I love to talk about, because depending on your audience and depending on what you are selling certain components of the setup might be different than others.
But today I want to talk to you specifically about how to sell photos with WordPress, in 5 easy steps.
This article is intended for photographers specifically. If you are not selling photographs then these steps might not suit your needs.
Needed To Sell Photos With WordPress
Photographers need a few specific things in order to sell their photographs.
- Fast server
- Reliable website uptime
- Beautiful galleries
- Mobile ready
- Ability to sell in public galleries
- Ability to sell in private galleries
- Ability to proof photos
- Multiple pricelists w/ manual override
- Print lab(s) integrated
There are other smaller items that fall in between each of those, but the 9 you see are the most essential.
5 Steps To Sell Photos With WordPress https://www.prozuktiworld.com/admin-login/post.php?post=2296&action=edit
Step 1. Get a fast and reliable server. I personally recommend Imagely. They host my website and have so many advantages to you.
The average loading time for a website is 4.7 seconds. The average load time at Imagely is 1.07 seconds.
This is beneficial because as a photographer you will be selling large photographs, and potentially displaying fairly high resolution photographs on your website. So having a server that can handle that, and distribute the website at an impressive speed is beneficial for you. It’s beneficial for you, your customers and for your website’s ranking on search engines.
When it comes to security Imagely is at the top of their field. In some testing, it was found that Imagely isolated websites from a server where a website was hacked. The hack was not due to any fault of Imagely either. It was due to poorly picked admin password. Typically with shared hosting, if one website is vulnerable then all the sites on that server are vulnerable. With Imagely, their isolation practice makes that idea null. That’s just one of their security measures taken for all customers on their shared hosting and managed cloud hosting.
WordPress is fantastic, but it’s not perfect. So if you can be sure you’re getting great support then you already have a head start towards continued success.
Imagely offers a free plan, but you can upgrade anytime!
Step 2. Pick a WordPress theme that suits your taste and brand. There are many photography themes out there, but Imagely’s hosting platform comes preloaded with a lot of beautiful themes ready to use.
Step 3. Install NextGEN Gallery to manage your galleries, albums and eventually your photo ecommerce. NextGEN Gallery is the most popular WordPress gallery plugin for so many reasons. It has over 1.3 million users and growing. Imagely also preloads NextGEN Gallery so you’re good on that front.
The plugin is feature rich with all the essentials photographers would want. In fact, all new features being added are specific to photographer requests.
The plugin is 100% free from the WordPress directory, or from within your WordPress admin.
One of the advantages of NextGEN Gallery is the ability to have it resize your photos during upload. That way when it comes time to sell your photos, it will display the smaller photos on the front end and sell the photos from the backend.
Like I said in Step 1, site speed is important and beneficial for you, your customers and for your website’s search engine rankings. Displaying smaller photos on the front end is part of that process.
NextGEN Gallery also has watermarking built-in for photographers who want to watermark their photographs as well.
Step 4. Purchase and Install NextGEN Pro which will handle selling photos on your WordPress site. NextGEN Pro has a small annual fee, but it’s a plugin that sits on top of NextGEN Gallery, and uses it’s powerful gallery management system and feature-set in order to sell photographs.
The plugin will utilize the original backups that NextGEN Gallery can save, and sell them for prints and digital downloads. The plugin also includes a proofing option that photographers can use in private or public galleries, just like regular ecommerce galleries. This feature allows photographers to easily obtain a list of photographs that their clients want them to edit. The list is sent via email, separated by commas, so it’s easily findable in Lightroom.
NextGEN comes with multiple payment gateways built-in like checks, PayPal Standard, PayPal Express and Stripe. It also included image protection so you can have your photographs pretended from right click and dragging.
The plugin is responsive and retina, which means it looks fantastic on all devices, included small screens like iPhones and Android phones.
One thing that makes NextGEN Pro awesome is their pricelist feature. You can create unlimited pricelists, assign one to a gallery and the override individual photos with a different pricelist or make it not for sale.
But what’s missing, at the moment, is print lab integration. That’s a big thing that is and will prevent some photographers from switching from Smugmug and Zenfolio type platforms over to a 100% WordPress solution. Lab integration is in the works and it’s going to be awesome!
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