{"id":523,"date":"2016-07-19T11:59:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T11:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webigg.com\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2018-12-10T04:37:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T04:37:48","slug":"magento-vs-wordpress-for-ecommerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webigg.com\/blog\/magento-vs-wordpress-for-ecommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGENTO VS WORDPRESS FOR ECOMMERCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you use WordPress as a publishing platform with which to operate your website and find yourself with the need to incorporate some\u00a0eCommerce\u00a0functionality in order to support or enable your business\u2019 growth, you may be asking yourself\u00a0<strong>which solution is better for you and your business<\/strong>? Will you use\u00a0WordPress\u00a0or\u00a0Magento?<\/p>\n<p>On the surface, the two platforms may seem similar. They both are highly\u00a0<strong>customizable<\/strong>, are very\u00a0<strong>SEO friendly<\/strong>, can be extensively\u00a0<strong>themed<\/strong>, and feature a strong online\u00a0<strong>support<\/strong>\u00a0community. In addition, of course, they are both essentially content management systems, enabling you to add, modify, and manage your content in a simple yet effective manner. However, the differences become apparent when you examine their core purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, if you have some experience with developing for WordPress, Magento\u2019s complexity in comparison may be somewhat\u00a0<em>intimidating<\/em>. In this entry to our eCommerce blog, we highlight why Magento is the\u00a0<em>preferred<\/em>\u00a0eCommerce solution for your business and provide some tips on how to use Magento, while thinking like WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress is a popular open source publishing tool and content management system. Upwards of\u00a017% of the Web, or over 60 million websites, is powered by WordPress. Even eBay Inc., which owns Magento, uses it to publish their blog. It is notable for featuring a plug-in architecture and template system in addition to being very user friendly. WordPress can be extended to support some\u00a0<em><strong>basic<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<strong>eCommerce functionality<\/strong>\u00a0through a number of third party plugins.<\/p>\n<p>Like WordPress, Magento is built on\u00a0<strong>open source<\/strong>\u00a0technology. It is a feature-rich eCommerce platform trusted by more than 150,000 online retailers, including some of the\u00a0world\u2019s leading brands, ranging from small websites to large multinational businesses. Magento offers a level of functionality and customizability that provides merchants with the\u00a0<strong>flexibility<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>control<\/strong>\u00a0to create online stores that fit their business needs while also supplying\u00a0<strong>powerful features<\/strong>\u00a0like marketing, multi-store management, mobile commerce, business reports, search engine optimization, and catalogue-management tools. Magento\u2019s CMS facilities also support the creation of complex content pages, version control, and menus \u2013 much like WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress is made up of a series of editable Posts and Pages. When developing template files, Loops and function tags are used to call the Page or Post content. Custom template files can also be added and applied on a per-page basis. Magento features CMS Pages and they largely function the same way as a WordPress Page. However, as is often the case in Magento, something that can be accomplished through WordPress in a few quick clicks is done in a more programmatic fashion by following Magento best practices. For instance, to set up additional CMS Page templates you do not simply create a new template file; in Magento you must also create a new module that updates the list of templates available to it. The equivalent content call within these templates is performed through a PHP method as follows:<\/p>\n<p>The greatest difference between the two is that\u00a0<strong>WordPress<\/strong>\u00a0has its\u00a0<strong>programming contained within a set of sequenced PHP scripts<\/strong>\u00a0while\u00a0<strong>Magento<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>object-oriented<\/strong>\u00a0and spread across a great number of files and folders. Further, whereas WordPress has relatively unique naming conventions for template files, and those files are largely contained within a single theme directory, Magento has several folders and files that share the\u00a0<em>same<\/em>\u00a0<em>name<\/em>. In WordPress, a theme is contained to one folder. With Magento, there are a series of nested folders. Template files and skin files are also located in separate directories. Lastly, unlike WordPress where themes are independent of one another, Magento features fall-back logic and relies upon its default theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use WordPress as a publishing platform with which to operate your website and find yourself with the need to incorporate some\u00a0eCommerce\u00a0functionality in order to support or enable your business\u2019 growth, you may be asking yourself\u00a0which solution is better for you and your business? Will you use\u00a0WordPress\u00a0or\u00a0Magento? 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