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[Tech4Homes]

How do I go about having a Wordpress blog for my Magento store?

I'm not too fussed about it being "integrated" with the Magento site per ce. I just need it on the same domain so that any SEO benefit affects the store as well as the blog.

 

[One Step Hosting]

Install Wordpress on the same domain, e.g. mystore.co.uk/blog , there are a few plugins for Wordpress to integrate it with Magento

 

[fisicx]

If there is to be any SEO benefits the blog has to be integrated. Bolting a blog on the side of the main site won't acheive anything. But if that really is all you want to do just install wordpress in a 'blog' folder. Takes a few minutes to do so you could be wrting blog post by teatime today.

But if you want the blog to look like the main site then you will need a bespoke theme creating.

Or you could just use one of the many Magento blog extensiotns: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Magento+blog+extension&surl=1&gws_rd=ssl

 

[zigojacko]

If you don't want your blog to be integrated into your Magento store in any way then just simply install Wordpress to a sub directory on your domain (i.e. /blog).

If you do want the Wordpress blog to be integrated then you can either use this Magento Wordpress Integration extension from Fishpig although there are many limitations (as in you're only able to use parts of Wordpress that the developers have catered for in the extension) or you can use MWI which allows you to fully use Wordpress and allows you to insert Magento blocks into your Wordpress theme.

Both latter options will likely require development assistance/help.

Alternatively, there is a free Magento blog extension but it of course offers far less than Wordpress can.

 

[Tech4Homes]

I currently use the aheadworks blog, it's integrated but it lacks features and it's ugly.

My thought was to use a Wordpress theme, branded the same with a very similar design and constant links back to the products where necessary.

 

[fisicx]

And value of this would be zero, a pointless exercise that Google and potential customers will ignore.

To have any value at all the blog needs to be an integral part of the site and offer value to the reader. So use one of the available extensions to create a seamless whole so that the blog posts feel like part of the site with the full headers and footer and products categories.

 

[Tech4Homes]

OK.

I'll stick with what I've got then and will have to get a developer to tart it all up soon. To be honest it just needs a featured image option and the layout improving and I'd be happy with it.

 

[bharris]

Cant you just use the CMS page's that come as standard with Magento?

 

[Amasty]

Hi!
If you need to integrate Magento with Wordpress, you can find extensions for that as it was stated above.
Alternatively, you can create a blog under Magento. Using default CMS pages for that is a good but not really handle solution as in the end they look not like blog posts.
So you can try this extension that adds blog functionality to a Magento store: handy widgets, editor, posts preview, customizable layout, etc.

 

[Tech4Homes]

Thanks Amasty, that does look really good and covers all the issues I have with AW blog, does it work with any theme? and with multi store?

 

[goivvy]

Fishpig wordpress magento extension is the must have magento extension in my opinion

configuration is simple and it works with magento 1.x (not magento 2)

it loads blog data from wordpress and wraps it around your current magento theme

you have cart/customer session data on blog pages as well.

 

[zigojacko]

Fishpig wordpress magento extension is the must have magento extension in my opinion

configuration is simple and it works with magento 1.x (not magento 2)

it loads blog data from wordpress and wraps it around your current magento theme

you have cart/customer session data on blog pages as well.

can you stop resurrecting all the old threads in the magento forum please?

 

[goivvy]

can you stop resurrecting all the old threads in the magento forum please?

i am giving my opinion - might be interested to some

am I not allowed to?

 

[zigojacko]

am I not allowed to?

no, you're not. we don't all want a ton of notifications for threads that have been dormant for many months.

 

[goivvy]

then unsubscribe.

 

[zigojacko]

then unsubscribe.

or maybe you should read the forum rules... ?

Please don’t revive threads more than three months old, unless the OP previously committed to posting a later update.

 

[goivvy]

oh okay i didn't know that

point taken.