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Old 01-20-2010, 10:30 AM
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Lightbulb Re: Hand off X-Cart users to Wordpress

Hello

I would suggest to keep away from tide integration of x-cart with word press, mainly, for performance reasons.
You would essentially be loading up both applications every time you access WordPress, and while WordPress is very fast and light, X-Cart can be very server resource hungry.
Server load means slower site, which is not good.

But that of course leaves you without cart content/status in WordPress.

The easiest way is to have wordpress theme matching the x-cart theme while running WordPress blog completely independent from your X-Cart.

here are couple of examples of that approach:
WordPress: http://www.carttemplates.com/
X-Cart: http://www.carttemplates.com/mods/

WordPress: http://www.outdoorphotogear.com/blog/
X-Cart: http://www.outdoorphotogear.com/store/

And if you want to have recent blog posts on your X-Cart pages you can use this free mod here http://www.carttemplates.com/mods/xcart-wordpress-rss-feed-integration.html

Hope that helps!
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