Blog articles tagged with content-management-system
How to Integrate (Import) WordPress Content into Magento Blocks
04.26.2009 09:10PM by Evan Johnson
e-Commerce, CMS
This is the technique I use to integrate WordPress content into Magento. This can be useful for bringing in posts related to a product, or having recent blog posts on the Magento home page… whatever you can dream up. No modules, plugins or extensions are needed for this technique – just a good grasp of PHP and the Magento and WordPress theming/templating systems. There are probably many...
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How to Add Dynamic Content to Magento Static Blocks and Pages
03.03.2009 09:06PM by Evan Johnson
e-Commerce, Web Development
Magento provides an easy way to create blocks of static content which, with a little Layout-XML-Fu, can be added to any page in Magento. Even better, these blocks can be added to any category page with no programming at all. This is great if you want to have a banner image with monthly specials and deals, or if you want to add a header image or descriptive text to...
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Retrofitting Content Management Systems (CMS) on Existing Websites
02.12.2009 09:42PM by Evan Johnson
CMS, Web Development
This past week I retrofit the Montana Seed Trade Association website with CMS Made Simple. Previously, it was a “flat” website that consisted of some basic HTML and a couple of simple dynamic PHP pages populated from a mySQL database. Every time they wanted to update the site with new events or meeting dates, they had to call up the original web developer and pay...