Are you looking to integrate a blog into your Magento shopping cart ecommerce store? There are a few ways you can accomplish this, but one way that I have found is far better than any of the other possible solutions. It’s using Lazzymonks Blog Extension for Magento. Here are the specific steps for setting it up.

Setup Blog in Magento

First go to the extension page so that you can grab the extension key. If you have already tried installing the Lazzymonks WordPress Integration extension, than you have two steps you need to take first. 1) uninstall the wordpress integration extension from your Magento Extensions manager. 2) delete the blog_setup entry in the core_resource table of your database. (trust me on this one, these two steps definitely come from experience)

Now go to your Magento Extensions manager and input the extension key to install. This will install the extension package and put files in your directory. If you are not using the default template that comes with Magento install, than you need to copy the folder ‘blog’ from app/design/frontend/default/default/template/blog to where ever your theme is. Also do the same for blog.xml from app/design/frontend/default/default/layout. If you miss this step your blog will show up as a blank page.

You will now have a new menu item in your admin called Blog where you can create categories and blog posts, very similarly to how you would in WordPress. You will also want to go to System >> Configuration >> Blog  - this is where you can customize the main blog settings such as layout etc.

If you by any chance run into any problems setting this up hit me back and I can help you out. If you follow my steps, each one step for step than you should not run into any problems at all.

What this can do for your store!

A simple easy to use blog inside your Magento ecommerce store can do wonders for your sales if you are delivering a good product. Think of all the good articles and reviews you could give on all your products each day, week, and month. One of the things many ecommerce websites lack is quality content to go along with their catalog. People seem to think that a catalog is good enough for content. This is simply not true. Adding a blog to your online store and writing quality content about your products and about your industry could increase your online sales dramatically.

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HelloThemes has a very large selection of Premium Magento Themes covering all different types of needs from Electronic styled themes for Electronic stores to Furniture styled themes. Check them out before trying to mess with your own theme. It could save you a ton of time and money.

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hi, today i m going to write about CMS(content management system). hersi the list of some useful CMS

1. Drupal:

Drupal gets the top nod because of its ease of use, vast number of modules, great user, developer, and support community.
License: GPL
Programming Language: PHP
Main advantages: core CMS, Views, CCK, Organic Groups, & huge library of contributed modules.
Disadvantages: complex, needs more top quality themes, frequent security upgrades.
Outlook: Huge potential to continue growth and expansion on this platform over time.
Website: http://www.drupal.org/

2. WordPress:

WordPress is a simple and elegant CMS, perfect for single user blogs, with a large number of themes and modules available online.
License: GPL
Programming Language: PHP
Main advantages: Easiest CMS to use, customize, and extend.
Disadvantages: Lacks many of the social networking functions, ecommerce, forums, wikis, etc. used on more expansive sites.
Outlook: Best for personal publishing, huge user community, will continue to be the preferred choice of bloggers for years.
Website: http://www.wordpress.org/

3. Joomla:

Joomla has one of the largest user communities of any CMS, everything you need and more to develop social networks, ecommerce, & archive sites.
License: GPL
Programming Language: PHP
Main advantages: Professional standards, internationalization, customization.
Disadvantages: too many commercial products for Open Source development, difficult to learn.
Outlook: Strong challenger for the top CMS spot, commercialization of extensions should continue to provide many income opportunities for 3rd party developers.
Website: http://www.joomla.org/

4. Media Wiki:

Media Wiki invented a whole new way of working on the web, and is a CMS for collective authoring of documents, used to power the one of the largest and most popular sites on the internet, Wikipedia.
License: GPL
Programming Language: PHP
Main advantages: If you need a wiki, it is the best.
Disadvantages: Does not include many other functions / extensions of other CMS platforms, doesn’t theme well, most sites look the same.
Outlook: Follows the model to success of doing one thing extremely well, has the support of the Wikipedia Foundation, very popular authoring model.
Website: http://www.mediawiki.org/

5. Liferay:

Liferay is a popular new CMS that is great for building portals, and offers a professional look and feel that sets it apart from the other platforms.
License: MIT
Programming Language: Java, PHP, Ruby
Main advantages: collaboration, calendars, internationalization, design.
Disadvantages: More closely tied to a commercial outlook / corporate structure than most Open Source projects.
Outlook: Not as well known or implemented as some of the other CMS platforms, but nice design & features to set your sites apart from the crowd.
Website: http://www.liferay.com/

6. TYPO3:

One of the most complex and professional CMS platforms out of the box, TYPO3 is popular for business websites, especially with European companies.
License: GNU
Programming Language: PHP
Main advantages: design, extensions, customizations, flexibility, professionalism.
Disadvantages: too difficult to learn for most, too many proprietary conventions.
Outlook: Strong CMS for web development, sure to continue with a core of specialized developers and corporate clients, but loosing support and market share to other platforms.
Website: http://www.typo3.com/

7. Moodle:

Moodle is one of the most unique CMS platforms on this list, designed specifically for Course Management and Education, and used for online learning platforms.
License: GNU
Programming Language: PHP
Main advantages: Huge user and development community, online education, no real competitors or similar products, extremely powerful.
Disadvantages: not really applicable for most web design purposes.
Outlook: Look for this “Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment” to continue to be the standard online operating system for education and spawn many interesting mashups with other CMS platforms as well as many more modules & extensions.
Website: http://www.moodle.org/

8. Dolphin:

Boonex Dolphin is popular among web designers who want the latest in social networking, with an industry standard look and all of the features of the popular online communities out of the box.
License: Creative Commons
Programming Language: PHP
Main advantages: Plug-n-Play user community with all the bells & whistles.
Disadvantages: not really Open Source, must pay to remove ads, requires specific hosting requirements, difficult to install, buggy.
Outlook: Look for Dolphin to continue to be a popular choice for social networking, though its “cookie cutter” design runs the risk of becoming stale with too many sites implementing the same design.
Website: http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/

9. Pligg:

Pligg is a Digg clone that provides social bookmarking functionality for websites, allowing users to post links, vote them up or down, and leave comments.
License: GPL
Programming Language: PHP
Main advantages: Best for Social Bookmarking, can be themed and extended to build top quality sites like Mixx, Redditt, Del.icio.us, etc.
Disadvantages: difficult to install, mod rewrite problems, poor support on community boards, questionable Open Source future.
Outlook: With the 1.0 release of Pligg upcoming within a couple of months, look for a big surge of use back to this platform but watch out for increased commercialization.
Website: http://www.pligg.com/

10. Movable Type:

Movable Type is the main challenger to WordPress for a personal blog platform, and supports multiple users, Themes, and Tags.
License: GNU
Programming Language: Perl
Main advantages: Blogs
Disadvantages: Too closely tied to commercial products and services compared to most Open Source communities, Perl.
Outlook: Look for MT to fall off the list as other of the blogging platforms below increase in popularity, but sustain development as PR for the company’s commercial offerings.
Website: http://movabletype.org/

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hello all, today i want to write some exisiting feature of magento e-commerce. one best thing is magento provides multi store managment.. some of magento features are as under.

Marketing Promotions and Tools
Flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ability to restrict to stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories.
Catalog Promotional Pricing
Analytics and Reporting
Admin Dashboard for Report Overview
Abandoned Shopping Cart Report
Best Customers Report by Total and Number of Orders
Search Engine Optimization
Google Site Map
URL Rewrites give full control of URL’s
Meta-information for products and categories
Site Management
Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed
Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application
One-Click Upgrades
Google Website Optimizer Integration for A/B and Multivariate Testing
Catalog Management
Batch Import and Export of catalog
Google Base Integration
Downloadable/Digital Products
Advanced Pricing Rules and support for Special Prices
Catalog Browsing
Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products in Categories
Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products in Search Results
Product comparisons
Product Reviews
Product Browsing
Multiple Images Per Product
Product Image Zoom-in Capability
International Support
Multi-Language
Support for Multiple Currencies
Checkout
One-Page Checkout
Checkout without account/Guest Checkout
Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
Shipping
Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
Multiple shipments per order
Free Shipping
Payment
Integrated with Google Checkout (Level 2)
Payment Extensions Available through Magento Connect
Configurable to authorize and charge, or authorize only and charge on creation of invoices

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