Articles or Blog functionality

[stevesh]

I have used the Numinix Wordpress integration, and I like it, but I'm a pretty fair CSS hand and there is a certain amount of CSS work required to make it fit within Zencart. Installing Wordpress in a subdirectory and styling it to match might be easier, since, as diva said, there are thousands of excellent templates available for WP.

[schoolboy]

To me, introducing a distracting social element goes against the purpose of eCommerce. The eComm site should be just that... nothing more. No chit-chat, no "entertainment" - just channels to checkout.

Blogs and Social Pages are an essential part of your "wider web presence" and if you are in business, their role is to "harvest" potential customers and "engage" existing ones.

But the zencart site is your till-point. Don't give people an opportunity to abandon the purchase procedure.

[DivaVocals]

For my clients their blogs and Facebook pages are simply additional sales tools which are meant to support the store versus serving as a distraction.. I have one client where the blog is the "front door" to their store as it serves to bring in visitors and then guide them to the store..

Regardless of this, I still find it is much more effective for the blog to remain a seperate entity.. I am not longer using blog embedding tools.. I am much more interested in embedding elements of the store inside the blog.. Right now I use manual methods to achieve this.. Still waiting for a GOOD WordPress plugin for this purpose.. (alas today none such plugin exists)