Comments on: Magento / WordPress Integration

By: James

James — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:05:31 +0000

I also created a plugin for WordPress to use Magento sessions and all magento blocks in your WordPress theme.

You can find it here – http://www.tristarwebdesign.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/wordgento/

By: Richard Feraro

Richard Feraro — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:14:42 +0000

I created a WordPress plugin to use Magento’s session within WordPress. Check it out if it suits you.

http://mysillypointofview.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/mage-enabler/

By: Richard Feraro

Richard Feraro — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:03:39 +0000

I think this is quite different from the other approach suggested here. This is how I extend Magento’s session within WordPress:

http://mysillypointofview.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/how-to-use-magentos-session-within-wordpress/

By: Sonassi

Sonassi — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:55:02 +0000

We’ve thrown together a little Magento/Wordpress integration extension that rivals a couple of the others whilst remaining extremely lightweight.

http://www.sonassi.com/knowledge-base/magento-knowledge-base/simple-and-effective-wordpress-and-magento-integration/

It might be a bit easier to implement than the above

Ps. Love the site design!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:54:16 +0000

I did, but with mostly default settings and the default theme. My intention is to work on a custom theme next.

There’s a forum specifically for this Magento extension:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewforum/10363/

I found that helped a lot – I had originally misunderstood the directions were to install WordPress in /wordpress, but to change the blog address in the WP admin interface. Thus, I only got a blank page with nothing in the error logs.

Well, that, and I had to change Magento’s install settings to allow beta extensions. By default, it only allows extensions marked ‘stable’. It’s in the Settings tab of the updater.

If you’re still stumped, I might be able to help. Any way I can contact you directly? Do you have a site with a contact form, or something? Exchanging email addresses in blog comments probably isn’t a great idea.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:13:52 +0000

I have had a heck of a time with this plug-in. I feel as though I follow the directions to the letter, but I cannot get anything out of it.

I love magento. I love wordpress. I find it hard to believe that people much smarter than me are not working on an easier marriage of the two. Where are the geniuses when you need them?

If anyone actually got this plugin to work, a little help would be awesome.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:27:40 +0000

Okay, so I just installed Magento and the WordPress plugin. I’m pretty impressed with Magento – the update system isn’t as polished as the one in WordPress, but I’m still pretty glad that it doesn’t require uploading or editing files. Updating Zen Cart is a nightmare, if you’ve made any customizations to your store.

The plugin is nicely done, too. It even comes with a WordPress theme that borrows elements from your current Magento theme – meaning, you don’t need to separately create a WordPress theme in addition to your Magento theme. That’s some nice integration.

My only issue is that the plugin requires editing core WP files – check out the instructions on the Magento plugin’s page. Not many edits, but it’s still bad practice.

I wish I were talented enough to convert the code changes into a WP plugin – but for now, I guess I’ll just upgrade WP by hand and reapply those changes manually.

If anyone manages to whip up a plugin, a quick link here would be most appreciated.

By: Eric Morgan

Eric Morgan — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:56:02 +0000

I work for a large web development company and we were excited at first for magento as well, but after setting it up on 3-4 clients we found some MAJOR scalability issues – the sites crash and can’t handle traffic because of the amount of products and traffic they get. I would highly encourage anyone who plans on having a bigger site in the future to NOT go with Magento – it has been the worst experience ever. We even contacted Magento directly with the issues and they had no solutions.

By: Steven W

Steven W — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:46:55 +0000

I currently manage a store that uses Magento, http://www.shopwoc.com. I love Magento and I’ve been a long time user of WordPress. I was really excited to integrate the two but the plugin, or extension as Magento calls them, does not work well, if at all (I couldn’t get it to work) with the newest Magento (2.1) and WordPress (2.7) The people who created the extension haven’t updated it in awhile so it’s not very reliable. I’d love to get this up and running because it would be invaluable to me and my store.

By: Paul (magento guru wannabe!)

Paul (magento guru wannabe!) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:05:32 +0000

Well I had to struggle to get wordpress to play nicely with osCommerce, so I’m looking forward to having an easier time with Magento. It’s great to see these plug-ins start to roll out. Exciting times for shop builders, sure enough!

By: Claude Gelinas

Claude Gelinas — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:23:51 +0000

I’ve been a huge fan of OSCommerce for the past few years but I’ve just started discovering the Magento e-commerce treasure chest — what an awesome open source project!

The fact that WordPress and Magento are coming together, through a plugin, is major news for the open source movement.

Many thanks to the dedicated individuals and groups who bring us such amazing PHP scripts.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:59:31 +0000

Magento looks pretty cool. I hadn’t heard of it till now.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:15:40 +0000

This makes me happy. I set up a couple of Magento sites in April and was frustrated by their lack of bloggy type functionality. Cripplingly so. Now I can confidently and easily sell e commerce sites to the avg user again

By: Michael E-O

Michael E-O — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:42:28 +0000

Now this is fantastic…

Magento is real hot.. and with WordPress alongside… even better combo

By: wilwaldon

wilwaldon — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:40:29 +0000

I use both magento and WordPress on my site so this will help ALOT!!! THANKS!

By: Hammy

Hammy — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:21:49 +0000

awsome Matt ! Keep making WP a complete CMS itself ;P

By: samir

samir — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:15:10 +0000

Hey Matt,

It is a wonderful news mate !!!

Sam.

By: Roni

Roni — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:52:01 +0000

Honestly I just heard about Magento. I learn a little bit just a few moment, and I found it ‘s interesting. I use wordpress on my side. This is usefull information.
Thank you

By: Ken Savage

Ken Savage — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:02:49 +0000

WOW I’ve been following their progress the last few months. Very exciting. Finally I may be able to escape the Yahoo Store blues.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:43:15 +0000

Nice

By: aaron

aaron — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:02:30 +0000

that’s exciting.