As the world of eCommerce rapidly evolves, keeping customers engaged for a longer time becomes the need of an hour for every online business. For this reason, Magento - an eCommerce giant and WordPress - a popular blogging platform brings smart eCommerce solutions that enable the integration of both the platforms while helping the merchants stay ahead of the competition. If you’re an entrepreneur running an online store developed by the company that develop professional Magento eCommerce website and harness the power of WordPress to broadcast your business news, product promotions and offers, then Magento-WordPress integration is an ideal way to deliver functional yet social experience to your customers. This integration comes with a number of benefits such as:
#1 - Magento-WordPress Integration (Magento Extension): Magento-WordPress Integration is a free Magento extension developed by FishPig. For using this extension, you must ensure that both Magento and WordPress are installed in two different directories. They can be installed either in one root directory and one subdirectory or in two different sub-directories. You can install the Magento-WordPress Integration extension after the installation of both the platforms. Once the extension is installed you need to configure it properly so that the WordPress blog can be easily connected and integrated into Magento theme. So, login to Magento admin panel and from the top navigation panel select WordPress > Settings. On the settings page, add your WordPress database details, desired blog URL and the path of your WordPress installation folder. Now, login to WordPRess dashboard and from the side panel select Settings > General. You will find two URL options – one is WordPress address (URL) and the other is Site Address (URL). You will have to correctly change the Site Address (URL) that you added to Magento settings page previously. Now, you can access your WordPress blog as per the configured URL. Your WordPress blog will now be displayed using the Magento theme. #2 - Magento WordPress Integration (WordPress Plugin) This Magento-WordPress Integration is a WordPress plugin you need to install on your WordPress blog. It helps to incorporate any Magento modules or sections to WordPress theme in any position. For using this plugin, you need to install and activate it via WordPress Dashboard > Plugins > Add New. Once it is activated, go to the settings page of this plugin: WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Mage/WP. Now follow the three main settings mentioned below:
These extensions are available for free to integrate your Magento store and WordPress blog into a single site seamlessly. Do you know any other ways to integrate Magento and WordPress? Please share with us in the comments. Comments are closed.
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