Magento and WordPress Side by Side
Magento is a great piece of kit and is taking the e-commerce world by storm. However, unless you have a good understanding of object-oriented programming and are familiar with extended classes you’re going to struggle a little. At the moment I’m redesigning a client’s site to incorporate an intial splitter page as the home page that then allows them to pass through to the catalogue proper or to the blog.
However, the way I chose to do this was to copy the html source from the home page and redo the html and css manually. However, I’m sure there must be better ways of doing this, such as using includes on particular features. The problem is that the only method I could think of was using an iframe, something I didn’t want to do for reasons that go without saying
As it stands the only drawback is that changes to the Magento catalogue navigation will mean the need to update the static html in the new home page. This is a bit of a bind but isn’t too problematic as the links are permanent. It’s only really when a new section is added that the page will need to be added.
It’s a relatively simple solution without needing to get into Magento code. I’m sure it could be done in a sweeter way but this seems to be the least complicated way and one that fits with the client’s budget.