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Magento or Wordpress?

by Mikeporetti
7 replies
I am starting up an ecommerce site where i sell a service based on templates (quite like the cinematic logos from videohive)

My question is, should I use wordpress for my ecommerce site or magento? I wont have a gigantic product list, probably wont hit more than 50 products.

In which cases is it necessary to move from wordpress to magento for ecommerce?

Also are there other forums that focus more on developing ecommerce websites?


here is what i have so far:


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#magento #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Smidid Sammia
    Magento is better for paying directly in the website, wordpress is really changable if you are quite aware of the system!!!
    Maybe you can try jommla Joomla! • Index page
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  • Profile picture of the author Anthony Gibson
    Nice site Mike! I don't have much experience with Magento, actually none lol but from the looks of it WordPress should be perfect for your needs! Also, try "e-commerce" in the "Search" box right here on the forum.
    Hope that helps!

    Anthony
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  • Profile picture of the author dwoods
    Magento is a nightmare to work with. Very complicated code and difficult to learn. It's MVC overload. I wouldn't suggest it unless you are trying to recreate amazon.

    It's extremely server intensive, and quite frankly it's overkill 99% of the time.

    I've used it on a few sites in the past when it was *hot* and found it difficult to learn, almost impossible to find support/help for and a real resource hog.
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    • Profile picture of the author phpindia
      Magento is better for developing ecommerce websites. Its specially designed for developing e-store to sell our business product online and it has also all tool to manage stores. WordPress is good for developing simple sites and can manage all content of website easily.
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  • Profile picture of the author eve2
    I've worked with Magento, ZenCart and WordPress, and my opinion is, for 50 products, save yourself the headache of setting up a full ecommerce site (and the time wasted on learning a new CMS if WP is what you're familiar with).

    WordPress with plugins or a shopping theme would be the way to go for 50 products.
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    For 50 products I would use WordPress and ecWid.
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  • Profile picture of the author GoBlog
    My suggestion is choose WordPress and stick with it. WP is #1 CMS so you can create a beautiful and powerfull ecommerce site with it.
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