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    Wordpress and MIVA

    I know nothing about wordpress. I'm not sure whether it can be used as a standalone for ecommerce or whether you'll always need MIVA (or whatever) to run the ecommerce side.

    Thanks!

    Korey
    Korey McWilliams
    Project Director
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    korey usbones dot com
    http://usbones.com

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    Re: Wordpress and MIVA

    Wordpress should never be used for anything that requires security of data. It will work just fine as a blog along side a Miva Merchant shopping cart, even with permalinks enabled if you plan the link structure you use with it and with Merchant carefully.
    David Hubbard
    CIO
    Miva
    [email protected]
    http://www.miva.com

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      #3
      Re: Wordpress and MIVA

      Can you please go into a lttle more depth David on what you have to be careful about. i am thinking of adding a blog to my site and i have seen miva integrated into Wordpress and wordpress integrated into Miva.
      Richard
      www.CampingYurts.com

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        #4
        Re: Wordpress and MIVA

        Originally posted by RichardW View Post
        Can you please go into a lttle more depth David on what you have to be careful about. i am thinking of adding a blog to my site and i have seen miva integrated into Wordpress and wordpress integrated into Miva.
        I believe he was asking about using Wordpress as an actual shopping cart, not integrating shopping with Merchant into the blog. There are plugins for wordpress to allow it to act as a shopping cart, but Wordpress itself, if not kept up to date, if the plugins are not very carefully selected, if the plugins are not written with security in mind or even some plugins having negative interactions with others, can lead to it being hacked, so it's not advisable to use wordpress for tasks that involve data which should be kept confidential.
        David Hubbard
        CIO
        Miva
        [email protected]
        http://www.miva.com

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          #5
          Re: Wordpress and MIVA

          Thanks, I wa just curious to learn more.
          Richard
          www.CampingYurts.com

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            #6
            Re: Wordpress and MIVA

            Best Practices goes one step beyond what David mentioned and would separate the subdomains between WordPress and Miva Merchant (or any shopping application).

            WordPress is a great blogging platform and is a gigantic security risk, so it should be cordoned off from the Shopping Application as much as is feasible.

            The ideal setup would be www.mystore.com has your Miva Merchant (or any store application) and blog.mystore.com running in it's own set of databases and as it's own essentially separate website for WordPress.

            Of course from a web user perspective they can all be seamless (other than the subdomain url change) and have the same look and feel, same navigation, etc...
            Last edited by Rick Wilson; 06-16-12, 08:09 AM.
            Thanks,

            Rick Wilson
            CEO
            Miva, Inc.
            [email protected]
            https://www.miva.com

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              #7
              Re: Wordpress and MIVA

              Thanks Rick, I was going to go the sub domain route. I didn't realize Wordpress could be such a security risk.

              Thanks for the input
              Richard
              www.CampingYurts.com

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                #8
                Re: Wordpress and MIVA

                I am confused. This plug-in you sell at the Miva store seems to suggest integration right inside Miva of wordpress: http://www.mivacentral.com/Merchant2...wordpress+blog
                http://www.invinciblemusic.com

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                  #9
                  Re: Wordpress and MIVA

                  I think it's more an integration of the look & feel across both - being able to use a Global Header & Footer that in universal to both. It's actually doable within Miva Merchant to create a header & footer to be used in WordPress. I also like to take the store look & feel and create a theme from it. I like a uniform look across the board - my thinking it it creates a comfort zone - everything looks the same.

                  Leslie
                  Leslie Kirk
                  Miva Certified Developer
                  Miva Merchant Specialist since 1997
                  Previously of Webs Your Way
                  (aka Leslie Nord leslienord)

                  Email me: [email protected]
                  www.lesliekirk.com

                  Follow me: Twitter | Facebook | FourSquare | Pinterest | Flickr

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                    #10
                    Re: Wordpress and MIVA

                    I see Leslie. I posted on your other thread where you offer blog setup services (not for sure that's your company post though) some additional questions: http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/for...ight=wordpress
                    Last edited by InvincibleRecordings; 07-21-12, 02:33 PM.
                    http://www.invinciblemusic.com

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                      #11
                      Re: Wordpress and MIVA

                      Hopefully Chuck will chime in, it's his service.

                      Leslie
                      Leslie Kirk
                      Miva Certified Developer
                      Miva Merchant Specialist since 1997
                      Previously of Webs Your Way
                      (aka Leslie Nord leslienord)

                      Email me: [email protected]
                      www.lesliekirk.com

                      Follow me: Twitter | Facebook | FourSquare | Pinterest | Flickr

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                        #12
                        Re: Wordpress and MIVA

                        Originally posted by Rick Wilson View Post
                        Best Practices goes one step beyond what David mentioned and would separate the subdomains between WordPress and Miva Merchant (or any shopping application).

                        WordPress is a great blogging platform and is a gigantic security risk, so it should be cordoned off from the Shopping Application as much as is feasible.

                        The ideal setup would be www.mystore.com has your Miva Merchant (or any store application) and blog.mystore.com running in it's own set of databases and as it's own essentially separate website for WordPress.

                        Of course from a web user perspective they can all be seamless (other than the subdomain url change) and have the same look and feel, same navigation, etc...
                        Does maintaining a separate subdomain eliminate lost session issues if a customer who is 1/2 through an order decides to click on the blog link? When he returns to checkout from the blog will the session be timed out because of cookie issues? I have a customer who wants to add a wordpress blog to his site and make it look seamless and I'm just getting prepared for the secure session issues that may crop up.

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