[McGarryMA]

I use both of these platforms and they bridge togther very well (as do many other CMS & E-Commerce collaborations). I recommend to most of my E-Commerce customers that they have some form of blog or news feed for SEO... But what way around do you intergrate these platforms when delivering an ecommerce solution to a customer?

Is at down to the nature of the brief and its specifications?

The scale of the project?

Or perhaps your personal preference?

I have my views I wanted to know if anyone elses opinions were similar? Thanks Martin

[Renaissance-Design]

I've not had a stab at integrating them yet, but I'd like to. Main issue would be the integration of the admins to provide a seamless experience. Tricky, because Magento uses Prototype (although I wish it didn't) and relies on sessions for login whereas WP doesn't use sessions and uses JQuery.

[McGarryMA]

Renaissance-Design, on 04 February 2012 - 02:00 PM, said:

I've not had a stab at integrating them yet, but I'd like to. Main issue would be the integration of the admins to provide a seamless experience. Tricky, because Magento uses Prototype (although I wish it didn't) and relies on sessions for login whereas WP doesn't use sessions and uses JQuery.

That could be a hefty rewrite... one for their suggestion box perhaps!

[McGarryMA]

Renaissance-Design, on 04 February 2012 - 02:00 PM, said:

I've not had a stab at integrating them yet, but I'd like to. Main issue would be the integration of the admins to provide a seamless experience. Tricky, because Magento uses Prototype (although I wish it didn't) and relies on sessions for login whereas WP doesn't use sessions and uses JQuery.

Also...

In terms of Admins its not ideal but whichever of the two platforms is your primary installation, most of the functionality is achieved through that admin and the secondary platform operates in more of a slave mode... hence the question which way do you operate... If you a Wordpress with Magento person... you'll access the wordpress admin in your root somewhere and the magento admin will be tucked away in one of the directories created during the bridge. Therefore some of its operation will naturally take place within the WP admin with the option to link out to Magento admin if you so wish.

Or Vice Versa for the Magento with WP people.

Seamless... Not entirely! But still usefull if your on a smaller budget!

This post has been edited by McGarryMA: 04 February 2012 - 03:20 PM

[brightonmike]

I don't think I'd bother actually trying to deep integrate them. It could be a very big headache and it could cause so many issues with plugins and upgrades.

Personally, I think it depends which is used the most. If Wordpress, I'd have a page in the admin which loads the backend of Magento - and vice versa.

Of course you're not sharing logins but I'm sure most clients would understand this, and if they're using the system on a home computer they probably set their browser to auto-login anyway.

[Renaissance-Design]

Thinking about it, you're right. Would be better use of time to improve Magento's CMS section instead.