lindsayanng Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I JUST started my first ever blog.. I always had a kind of simple wordpress hosted blog, but now i am taking my blog a little more seriously. Adding content daily, offering to sell advertisements and all the fun stuff.. Its loosely based on oscommerce, but it is mainly geared to designing newbies.. So i was looking at e-commerce solutions for word press and came across the wp-oscommerce.. it looks pretty COOL and was wondering if anyone used it? And if they did, how to some of the more popular addons deal with it??? Can you install QPB or attributes QTY to it?? I think i am going to play with it in my XAMPP on my local host, but i was wondering if anyone played with it. I mean, it is SUPER simple to skin, and I always see peope complaining that the addons should work more like WP where you just install a folder in the addons area and it does everything for you... Well, i would THINK that this would be pretty darn close to that.. So.. Anyone use it? A great place for newbies to start Road Map to oscommerce File Structure DO NOT PM ME FOR HELP. My time is valuable, unless i ask you to PM me, please dont. You will get better help if you post publicly. I am not as good at this as you think anyways! HOWEVER, you can visit my blog (go to my profile to see it) and post a question there, i will find time to get back and answer you Proud Memeber of the CODE BREAKERS CLUB!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas2003 Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 What about security? I'm thinking to start a blog as well, but Wordpress is a blog system in focus and a complex system. Is it necessary to separate the blog system to the osC system? So, when the blog system is affected, the osC system is still not affected. This means that I'm afraid to combine these two systems too closely. Whats your opinion on that ? Regards Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindsayanng Posted February 3, 2009 Author Share Posted February 3, 2009 when you decide to use the oscommerce wordpress plugin, that means that you have to install wordpress on your own server, you are NOT using a wordpress.com blog.. You dont have to worry about any "crashes" of the wordpress system because you are in your own server/host. At that point, it is just the same as installing oscommerce on your own host.. It basically takes the shell of wordpress and lays oscommerce over it.. I THINK it works similar to the STS sytem. It uses the wordpress' HTML output and overlays oscommerce functionality over it.. Again, this is my guess.. A great place for newbies to start Road Map to oscommerce File Structure DO NOT PM ME FOR HELP. My time is valuable, unless i ask you to PM me, please dont. You will get better help if you post publicly. I am not as good at this as you think anyways! HOWEVER, you can visit my blog (go to my profile to see it) and post a question there, i will find time to get back and answer you Proud Memeber of the CODE BREAKERS CLUB!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbking Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I want to add Wordpress myself, because I think it is a very versatile software. A year or so ago I read quite a lot about Wordpress and osCommerce. As I understood, it was important to understand that it is two very popular open source applications and hence the security should be top priority. So my take would be to have a separate database for Wordpress, change the database tables prefix to something hard to guess and add it in to osCommerce using an iframe. The iframe thing is probably not the best solution SEO wise, but again, the security is important. The more you alter the core code, the harder it will be to apply security patches. It would also be fairly easy to blend it in; in my case I would take out the left and right column while keeping the header and footer. It would be very interesting to hear what all of our experts on osCommerce thinks about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diy Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 Thought of adding a wordpress part on my oscommerce site but I am not comfortable with adding the tables of wp to the database (I have one per domain and i did a test install of both on a test server and db). Also i dont know exactly what is added on the database and how i can uninstall wordpress!!! There is also the practical problem of what happens when you dont have anything new to say <_< Do you think it would be better if we set up wordpress on the server of wp and referense on site to the other??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindsayanng Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 DIY, i think you are misunderstanding.. I'm not talking about making a blog AND a store.. there is a wordpress plugin that puts your store right INSIDE Of wordpress.. so you can change the look and themes in a wordpress style (one click installs) and the overall LOOK of a blog with a store inside. see a demo of what I am talking about here: WP-OSC its really awesome for people who want a different look but do not really know how.. As far as teh DB goes, I thought that they were separate DB for wordpress and osc, but then, i havent installed.. I'm sure you COULD make two entirely separate databases if you wanted to. A great place for newbies to start Road Map to oscommerce File Structure DO NOT PM ME FOR HELP. My time is valuable, unless i ask you to PM me, please dont. You will get better help if you post publicly. I am not as good at this as you think anyways! HOWEVER, you can visit my blog (go to my profile to see it) and post a question there, i will find time to get back and answer you Proud Memeber of the CODE BREAKERS CLUB!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 They are two DIFFERENT databases. I use osCommerce and Word Press... But, I have the latest blog show in an infobox and then they can go to the blog and read the remainder plus the archived blog entries..... but yes... it is two different databases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diy Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I was referring to this 2 contributions http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,3886 http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,4522 and to a thread in the forum from a forum member who intergrated wordpress into the shop http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=287802 So I am talking about a blog in a shop and not a shop in a blog As for the db I managed to intergrate wordpress in the existing database (i see it added 10 tables dont know what else it did) but i didi that on a test server . I would not do it with a working database (mainly because I am clueless and I would not know how to fix the db if it breaks). PS I am guesing that WP oscommerce uses just 1 database so i wouldnt use it if my shop had to many products Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerri38846 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 "So I am talking about a blog in a shop and not a shop in a blog" Not sure WHY you would want to integrate a blog into your shop. Why do you want to distract people and go off onto a tangent when they are ready to buy?!! But the shop in the blog!! I could go for that. Anyone have any good examples of shops on their blogs? Kerri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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