Ecommerce is one of the fastest growing ways for business owners to make money. Setting up shop online is a low-maintenance, lucrative way to reach more potential customers and clients. Many people use Magento because it has incredible ecommerce abilities, supporting you even if you have complicated variations with your products and different shipping options.
But it has no CMS features so many people were using it along with their WordPress site. However, it quickly became obvious that it was way too difficult to make Magento and WordPress work together in a decently easy manner.
Thus James Kemp worked hard for several years to bring forth the Magento WordPress Integration plugin! This plugin makes your WordPress site and Magento store look like and work like one unit. But then Kemp took it a step further and developed a third plugin called Single Sign-On for Magento and Word.
Below are the three plugins that connect Magento and WordPress. The first one, “Magento,” merely makes it an option to put your products onto your posts and pages. But the new and improved Magento WordPress Integration plugin is the bridge that actually allows the two open source platforms to work together seamlessly, and the Single Sign-On for Magneto and WordPress makes user managment that much easier.
1. Magento
With this plugin you can display your products that are in your Magento store on your WordPress site. If you want to show your products in posts or on your pages you can have the option to use shortcode or use widgets to show it in the sidebar.
2. Magento WordPress Integration
This is a great tool to get your Magento store and WordPress site to complement each other by integrating your store and site themes. This is fantastic because theming in Magneto can be a nightmare because those files are deep within the directories. You can also put any of the Magento Blocks into your WordPress theme, or any that you have created yourself. This includes static blocks that you may have in your administration area. You can also put lists of your Magento products/services into your WordPress just by using the shortcode button.
3. Single Sign-On For Magento and WordPress
This incredible plugin makes it that much easier to close the gap between your Magneto store and WordPress site. Customers who register on your Magento site will also be transferred to your WordPress site! This Magento add-on will remove all the extra links that lead to your WordPress login/registration area and will instead use the “My Account” section on your Magento platform for both. With this plugin you can integrate usernames and passwords across both platforms. This includes when users change or forget their login information.
