OsCommerce can be a great engine to use to power your shop but out of the box lacks some key features. A blog engine is one example - Wordpress being the market leader. So, how to integrate your Wordpress blog into your OsCommerce store? Here's how...
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oscommerce, wordpress
Introduction
This code allows you to display an information box in OsCommerce utilising a random post from your Wordpress blog.
Solution
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| Download the attached blog.php.txt (see bottom of page) and save as file: /includes/boxes/blog.php | |
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| Alter the config params at the top to suit your Wordpress installation, save the file. | |
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| open file /includes/column_left.php (or column_right.php if you wish the blog to appear on the right). | |
| Decide which order you wish the box to appear in and then add: | |
| include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'blog.php'); | |
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And you're good to go! |
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Summary
Very useful for SEO purposes, you may want to alter the way the blog url string is built (line #45) depending if you're using search engine friendly urls or not.
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Comments
wordpress and oscommerce
oscommerce does not have an inbuilt blog.
But you can have both in one place suing some contrib.
or create a blog folder and place wordpress there.
Then using wp-get u can play with wordpress blogs and display them on oscommerce.
Also you prepend in db table you can use single table.
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