Blog Software for Magento
At Ecommerce Web Design, we’re big fans of using WordPress as blogging software which can be installed alongside Magento seamlessly, and provide a clean, open-source blogging solution. It’s free, easy to install, accessible and literally bursting with plugins.
However if you want another solution which integrates into the same backend as the Magento one, I’d recommend the Aheadworks Free Blog extension. It comes with large amounts of customisation, SEO-friendly links and pretty much all the standard features that you’d find with WordPress – you can even enable RSS feeds with it too. There’s categories, comments, users and a nice TinyMCE editor to write your post with.
Aheadworks make a great range of quality extensions, most of which they sell for reasonable prices. The best thing about the Magento Blog is that it’s completely free to download and use – I guess it would have to be to compete with WordPress.
So which one would I recommend? Well, I do think that WordPress is not only the best blogging tool on the Internet, but it’s also possibly one of the best CMS systems available anywhere. This very blog is written in WordPress and the possibilities are endless. However if you’re after a simple, no-fuss and manageable solution and want to keep everything in one place, I would absolutely put forward the Aheadworks solution. But WordPress will always be king I’m sure…
I’ve added this and it seems very good. Thanks for a great blog, been using quite a few tips from here. i used the order sample idea that you published a while back and brought it on a few more steps so it creates a sample copy of the product, but does this at the add to cart stage, which allows me to check that only 1 (and up to 3) get added, i also adapted it to show the original products details in the cart. i’d be happy to pass the code back for republishing.
Thanks for the review!