When you talk about ecommerce, you automatically talk Magento. It’s the most prominent ecommerce platform of today offering unparalleled features to online store owners. WordPress is the most robust CMS (content Management System) for developing websites, blog sites of any type. With each of them dominate their scope of working. But there are scenarios when users wish to have WordPress features for Magento and vice versa. Magento to some extent does support content management and WordPress with a few modifications can be made to work as an online store. When businesses require Magento ecommerce solutions along with WordPress, it would be nice to have some options to integrate the two.
Let’s discuss two different approaches to integrate Magento and WordPress. One approach makes your Magento website look like a part of your WordPress website. The other approach is to integrate WordPress features to Magento.
WordPress Magento Integration – James Kemp
James Kemp’s Magento WordPress Integration Plug in once installed does all the groundwork and provides a solution to make your Magento store look like a part of your WordPress website. It’s an easy way to get blocks, sessions and products from Magento to do the following:
- Brings default Magento Blocks in Your WordPress Theme.
- Blocks that were created as well as static blocks are also brought to WordPress.
- This enables you to display Magento products on a WordPress Post or a page (requires short code add on).
- Also allows you to show products from any category using the widget add on.
WordPress Integration – FishPig
WordPress Integration from FishPig efficiently brings your WordPress blog to Magento. This is used when you want to integrate your WordPress blog in to your Magento store rather than exporting Magento features to WordPress.
- It provides SEO benefits for businesses by efficiently integrating a blog to a products based site.
- Allows users to use the Magento theme for WordPress site.
- It has a special feature for 1 click login from WordPress admin panel to Magento.
- Ability to quickly associate Magento Products with relevant blogs.
- Has support for WordPress short code.
Magento and WordPress, both are dominant web platforms but are popular for different kinds of implementations. This integration provides the ability to integrate both of them and creates a robust, feature packed web solution that can suffice ecommerce as well as CMS requirements.
