Which Blog Extension is the best for a Magento E-commerce Site?

[Francisco_Meza]

I would probably take it one step further and say to use Magneto if you have or expect higher volume sales. Even if a magento site has 10 products, but there are 100 sales per day, it's better than WP.

I use WP everyday as well as Magneto. But we are getting off topic now.

[BlueprintMarketing]

Hi Francisco,

Have you ever used the Aheadworks blog? I have seen it run but I was not impressed. However I think we're both in agreement that in this case because he's running Maghneto already as the main framework that he's better off to use WordPress just for the blog itself. Over the other

"aheadWorks blog"

PS

I've been lucky then. I use DynECT for transactional emails on WordPress and I suggested for any Wordpress  website. Just because even if you have no contact list it's smart to run a SMTP server off of your website you really don't want to mix those A record IP and email IP addresses if you can help it.  with the cost of sending transactional email being so little it is well worth it I think it depends on the host as well. I don't mean to get off topic at all however I am all these things have to do with the best practices for e-commerce. Which I think we both agreed transactional email is definitely a must. On with the ability to have a large amount of customers on the site at a time processing that's on the framwork payment gate & where the host has to be great in but  using Maghneto I do strongly recommend hosting provider like fire host

[Francisco_Meza]

I have never used Aheadworks. As far as I know, it's a pretty reputable company that makes many Magento plugins.

[DoitWiser]

Thanks for your help Thomas and Francisco,

Just to clarify, we are not trying to change our e-commerce platform, we just want an extension for a blog within Magento.

I think we will try with the wordpress extension you shared in the first link.

Thanks again for the information!

[Francisco_Meza]

Awesome! Let me know how it goes.

[BlueprintMarketing]

I second what Francisco said. Please let us know how it goes and good luck to you. Sincerely,

Thomas

PS When you get the answer from somebody like Francisco did In the very first reply to this to you it's a customary to give a thumbs up to that person. Just let you know not trying to force anything. So I would give a thumbs up to Francisco

[BlueprintMarketing]

I don't know if this is something you're interested or not in but I thought I would let you know. The company that offers the extension also offers these two services I posted below. I would imagine it would only be common sense that you would want your blog to match the rest of your site. As WordPress is still installed as a template you can of course customize the template to whatever look or feel you want it to have. I don't know if this is something that you want to do on your own or if it's something that you'd be interested in taking advantage of at the time of purchase here. However I thought I might just make you aware of it and hopefully be of some help.

UPDATE TEMPLATES TO MATCH YOUR THEME IN WORDPRESS INTEGRATION

Update Templates to Match Your Theme in WordPress Integration

 

Most Magento eCommerce themes extend the default Magento theme but some sites have bespoke templates that don't quite match. When this happens, your newly integrated WordPress blog might not look as good as you had hoped. If this is the case, we can update the blog templates to match your custom HTML syntax. This will make your blog inherit your Magento styles and look as good as your Magento eCommerce website.

http://fishpig.co.uk/wordpress-integration-update-templates-to-match-your-theme.html

ADD RECENT POSTS BLOCK FOR WORDPRESS INTEGRATION

Add Recent Posts Block for WordPress Integration

 

One of the great benefits of WordPress Integration is the SEO benefits it offers your Magento eCommerce site. By adding a recent posts block to your website, you will keep your content fresh and updated, which means Google will keep coming back more often!

This service is perfect for Magento store owners who want a nice looking recent posts block adding to their Magento site quickly and without any hassle!

http://fishpig.co.uk/wordpress-integration-add-recent-posts-block.html

[PeterAlexLeigh]

Hi Alejandro,

I was wondering how you got on with this?

I'm currently looking at moving a client away from the Magneto AhedWorks blog extension as the SEO functionality seems very lacking.

I'm looking at the wordpress integration.

Did it work out for you?

Thanks!

[TSCHWIL]

We used Wordpress for our Magento blog but the issue is a difference in static and dynamic pages. The Wordpress blog, because of the time stamps, took priority over our website and product pages. We had to remove the wordpress and create pages/categories manually. We lost a TON of ranking when we added a wordpress blog to our Magento website.

Is there an SEO friendly way around having the blog rank hiring than the website and products?

[Tolod]

Wordpress is the most vulnerable platforms that can be easily hacked info. If you connect your magento store to wordpress via fishpig or any other extension its only a matter of time before your store gets hacked. BEWARE

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