subject: Should Offshore Magento Developers Integrate Magento With Wordpress? [print this page] Both Magento and Wordpress are two powerful open source platforms that allow customers to enjoy the benefits of what both have to offer. While Wordpress is primarily meant for blogging, Magento is designed to offer a comprehensive ecommerce store. Businesses both small and big can make use of the best of Wordpress and Magento by integrating them with each other. Offshore Magento developers often get this request to integrate both the platform so that customers get to enjoy optimized services of both. Offshore Magento developers rely on different types of plugins that are available to accomplish the integration between Magento and Wordpress.
One of the extensions that are available for this purpose and offshore Magento developers often use it is called FishPig extension. To install FishPig extension, offshore Magento developers would require an extension key and this is easily available to all the registered members of the Magento community. Registration is free and therefore offshore Magento developers can register and retrieve the extension key.
Before the extension key is used, it is important that the offshore Magento developers create a backup of all the current working files before any changes are made to them. On the FishPigExtension page, the developers need to click on the Get Extension Key button and a particular version needs to be specified.
Once offshore Magento developers have retrieved the extension key, the next step is to log into the Magento dashboard and from the main navigation, take the cursor to the System link. A drop down menu appears from where the tab Magento Connect Manager needs to be clicked on.
Once the offshore Magento developers get to the page the Magento Connect Manager, it is important to choose Put store on the maintenance mode while installing option. This particular option is available on the Extension Installation Page. This is one of the prerequisites to ensure that FishPig extension does not change any of the Magentos core files.
The next step is to simply copy and paste the extension key and then click on the Install button. Through this step, offshore Magento developers should be able to retrieve the information about the FishPig extension through the Magento system. They can then conduct a check to find out if the information is in sync with the extension that is being installed. Once the FishPigsWordPress package is installed, a console displays if the process is complete and offshore Magento developers can choose Refresh to see if the extension appears.
Once, the offshore Magento developers have installed FishPigs extension files, the next step is to connect WordPress installation with Magento Store through the configuration of settings on the dashboards of both Magento and WordPress. After ensuring that FishPigsWordPress Integration extension has been successfully installed, offshore Magento developers can log out of the Connect Manager and log on to Magento Dashboard. A new link will appear on the dashboard as WordPress. In order to properly configure WordPress and Magento, it is important that the offshore Magento developers fill in the required information.
Finally, offshore Magento developers have to connect the databases of WordPress website with Magento Store and ensure this process is carried out successfully for seamless integration between WordPress and Magento.
