Comments on: How much do you really blog on your Magento shop?

By: Magento Developers

Magento Developers — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:07:41 +0000

It’s great inputs. Thanks Branko for sharing great experience.

By: Magento Extension

Magento Extension — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:38:08 +0000

Go with WordPress – no extension, no integration. It is the best choice and you will feel regret for using a blog Extension.
1. Why you need to match theme between Magento store and blog? Leave them stay standalone.
2. WordPress is better? Yes of course, no Blog extension can reach to what WordPress did. Auto ping, SEO,…. please remember that a Blog always have higher rank than normal software
3. All Magento Extensions Companies now use WordPress (event aheadWork use WordPress now).

By: harriet

harriet — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:57:06 +0000

“There are several drawbacks to using blog inside Magento then to use WordPress for your blogging. One of them is a photo upload feature that WordPress handles for you. Inside WordPress post edit area you have a nice button that lets you easily upload the photo and even create a mini gallery from there. Unfortunately, in Magento 1.3 and this blog extension you will not find something like that. You are forced to upload photos manually by FTP then link to them via urls. To me, this kind of approach is something I can live with.”—— well said dear Branko.. you fingure out the main defects which are commonly faced and to be detected by every one..thank you for the share…..

By: magento website developer

magento website developer — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:25:30 +0000

I came on your blog for the first and I have seen your work. I must say you have maintained your Blog really well. Good on you.

By: Kevin Woolf

Kevin Woolf — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:40:32 +0000

I found this article while searching for a solution to the unique identifier issue and a lead on a more advanced blog extension that supports multilingual sites. Since identifiers must be unique, even with “Add Store Code to Urls” set to yes, users on the frontend will get an error when switching languages while viewing a blog entry. I’m hoping there’s another solution besides bridging two platforms, which I agree would be more trouble than it’s worth considering Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have replaced my “blog”. Perhaps CMS blocks are the way to go. Just hope there is something else out there.

By: innovativeinfosolutions

innovativeinfosolutions — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:30:24 +0000

@ Branko

Great Article, I have checked out all your articles here. Amazing!!!!
Thanks for sharing such things man.

According to me wordpress is more preferable for me.

By: sterg18

sterg18 — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:11:25 +0000

Aheadworks blog extension does NOT let people who post get notified of new comments by email….

which is a MUST to have people coming back to your site….

I have the Aheadworks blog now, but I am looking to switch because that functionality is critical.

By: Sigma Infosolutions

Sigma Infosolutions — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:15:48 +0000

How 2 different sub-domain can have same shopping cart (i.e) Items purchased from one Sub-domain should reflect when went to another sub-domain and vice-verse in magento. Please suggest ……

Thanks,
Anir

By: Sigma Infosolutions

Sigma Infosolutions — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:22:03 +0000

Version :magento.1.4.x.

It will have default order export functionality compare to older version. With present version we need to download extension to do order export.

Therefore Its better to use magento 1.4.x for new features.

By: jon

jon — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:16:19 +0000

“if say WordPress can load your blog pages a little bit faster than your Magento blog then perhaps having them on two systems would give a slight edge.”

that’s a good question….anyone have any feedback on which does load quicker? Our testing (even though the testing has not been extensive) shows that the AW Blog loads a bit quicker. but maybe that would boil down to how well optimized and/or heavy each install is…

By: jon

jon — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:55:25 +0000

Hello! can anyone show me an AW Blog that is well customized / developed?

we have a working test version that seems to run good but I have never seen one integrated into a theme or beyond default

By: Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic — Fri, 14 May 2010 06:36:07 +0000

I have to agree with Laurence Bunker here.

It really doesn’t matter if you’ll use one or two different CMSs from the SEO point of view. The only difference is how these CMSs will structure the on site SEO ranking factors, which we can manipulate and make them the same.

By: Laurence Bunker

Laurence Bunker — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:03:52 +0000

Dividing up your content between two systems is largely irrelevant. Each page has ranking based on incoming links, age, load time, and a lot of other factors. Which system generates a page doesn’t matter other than perhaps how long it takes each system to do so (as Google does now base part of their ranking on site speed).

Another thought though is thatt, if say WordPress can load your blog pages a little bit faster than your Magento blog then perhaps having them on two systems would give a slight edge.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:58:14 +0000

@Jon Reist – I am with you Jon, I would also like to know how the two compare in terms of SEO.

Branko would you mind answering that?

I imagine that running two separate systems (WP and Magento) would divide up your content, thus divide your rankings; as opposed to keeping all content on one system. Just my thought.

By: Laurence Bunker

Laurence Bunker — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:56:17 +0000

To: Mr. Fraiser,

You deserve the flame you got from Branko!

Branko is well respected by many in the Magento community myself included. When I started developing my first shop in Magento Branko was one of the only people out there who was kind enough to post solutions.

Do some research. Branko has more how to articles on Magento than probably anyone else out there. He posts quality code and is very helpful to those who are just starting out.

Have some respect for those who are trying to help others! Branko doesn’t have to do what he does.

By: Branko Ajzele

Branko Ajzele — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:25:42 +0000

@David Fraiser

Hi David. Not sure how I should react to your statement “…you consider yourself a developer”. I don’t consider my self a developer. I know I am one!!!

First, this is not my personal blog. I just write articles here, that is when I make my self write one.

Second, my schedule is such that I don’t have time to play with irrelevant things such as fixing the side-by things broken as a result of small amount of accessible memory on hosting (thus it was easier for me to .zip the files, upload them them and move on with my life and more important things related to true development).

Third, I usually do not write these kind of articles but more developer oriented. If you had the decency to check the amount and quality of my articles here and on ActiveCodeline.com I’m sure you would not have such a stupid comment as you did.

By: David Fraiser

David Fraiser — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:20:42 +0000

So…you consider yourself a developer, yet can’t post screenshots to a WordPress blog (blaming your hosting), and use a WordPress blog as a site?
Sorry, nothing you say holds any validity with me.

By: Dean Coker

Dean Coker — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:58:48 +0000

When i download the screen shot the extractor says the zip file is corrupt. Can you possibly reload the shots?

By: Jon Reast

Jon Reast — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:00:42 +0000

Thank you again for your views on the aheadworks blog.
I understand that integrating a blog as part of a Magento store and regularly blogging will help with SE rankings. How does the aheadworks module compare with a wordpress integration in this respect?

By: Sweepers

Sweepers — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:29:12 +0000

Thank you for sharing. I am going to try aheadWorks on my site.