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MoneroWP

A WooCommerce extension for accepting Monero

Dependancies

This plugin is rather simple but there are a few things that need to be set up before hand.

  • A web server! Ideally with the most recent versions of PHP and mysql

  • The Monero wallet-cli and Monero wallet-rpc tools found here

  • WordPress Wordpress is the backend tool that is needed to use WooCommerce and this Monero plugin

  • WooCommerce This Monero plugin is an extension of WooCommerce, which works with WordPress

Step 1: Activating the plugin

  • Downloading: First of all, you will need to download the plugin. You can download the latest release as a .zip file from https://github.com/monero-integrations/monerowp/releases If you wish, you can also download the latest source code from GitHub. This can be done with the command git clone https://github.com/monero-integrations/monerowp.git or can be downloaded as a zip file from the GitHub web page.

  • Unzip the file monerowp_release.zip if you downloaded the zip from the releases page here.

  • Put the plugin in the correct directory: You will need to put the folder named monero from this repo/unzipped release into the wordpress plugins directory. This can be found at path/to/wordpress/folder/wp-content/plugins

  • Activate the plugin from the WordPress admin panel: Once you login to the admin panel in WordPress, click on "Installed Plugins" under "Plugins". Then simply click "Activate" where it says "Monero - WooCommerce Gateway"

Step 2: Get a monero daemon to connect to

Option 1: Running a full node yourself

To do this: start the monero daemon on your server and leave it running in the background. This can be accomplished by running ./monerod inside your monero downloads folder. The first time that you start your node, the monero daemon will download and sync the entire monero blockchain. This can take several hours and is best done on a machine with at least 4GB of ram, an SSD hard drive (with at least 15GB of free space), and a high speed internet connection.

Option 2: Connecting to a remote node

The easiest way to find a remote node to connect to is to visit moneroworld.com and use one of the nodes offered. It is probably easiest to use node.moneroworld.com:18089 which will automatically connect you to a random node.

Step 3: Setup your monero wallet-rpc

  • Setup a monero wallet using the monero-wallet-cli tool. If you do not know how to do this you can learn about it at getmonero.org

  • Start the Wallet RPC and leave it running in the background. This can be accomplished by running ./monero-wallet-rpc --rpc-bind-port 18082 --rpc-login username:password --log-level 2 --wallet-file /path/walletfile where "username:password" is the username and password that you want to use, seperated by a colon and "/path/walletfile" is your actual wallet file. If you wish to use a remote node you can add the --daemon-address flag followed by the address of the node. --daemon-address node.moneroworld.com:18089 for example.

Step 4: Setup Monero Gateway in WooCommerce

  • Navigate to the "settings" panel in the WooCommerce widget in the WordPress admin panel.

  • Click on "Checkout"

  • Select "Monero GateWay"

  • Check the box labeled "Enable this payment gateway"

  • Enter your monero wallet address in the box labled "Monero Address". If you do not know your address, you can run the address commmand in your monero wallet

  • Enter the IP address of your server in the box labeled "Daemon Host/IP"

  • Enter the port number of the Wallet RPC in the box labeled "Daemon PORT" (will be 18082 if you used the above example).

  • Enter the username and password that you want to use in their respective feilds

  • Click on "Save changes"

Info on server authentication

It is reccommended that you specify a username/password with your wallet rpc. This can be done by starting your wallet rpc with monero-wallet-rpc --rpc-bind-port 18082 --rpc-login username:password --wallet-file /path/walletfile where "username:password" is the username and password that you want to use, seperated by a colon. Alternatively, you can use the --restricted-rpc flag with the wallet rpc like so ./monero-wallet-rpc --testnet --rpc-bind-port 18082 --restricted-rpc --wallet-file wallet/path.