Magento
and WordPress are the two famous CMS Platforms which comes into mind when we
talk about the e-commerce development. Both the CMS comes with exemplary
features that help the retailers to give high end functional e-store. Through
this blog, I will provide you today the insight on when you choose WordPress
and when you choose Magento as per yours e-commerce needs.
Purpose: If your objective is to sell the product via
e-shopping then its better option for you to go for Magento because its
functionality is aimed at building a site for selling the products online.
However, if your primarily focus is in managing the content online then
WordPress fits your needs best. Because WordPress is content-driven and one of
the most sough-after blogging platform.
E-commerce Plugins
No doubt, WordPress (WP) is well known for
inbuilt free plugins and also offers a number of third party Plugins. e.g it provides
plugins that helps to integrate your e-store into WP theme, but they are less
secure and reliable, especially when you are selling product.
Magento CMS doesn’t need plugins for
embedding e-commerce features as it was mainly developed for offering
e-commerce solutions. In fact I must say here, that Magento has the capacity to
add better functionality with high security than WP plugins. It comes with
built-in option that enables you to add payment gateways, gift cards, custom
shipping methods etc. In order to get all those features in WordPress e-shop,
you will need to make use of Plugins which is time consuming also.
Development
With
respect to Development of e-commerce site, Magento is bigger and is divided
into a directory structure into deeper level. However WordPress is smaller and simple
to work than Magento. But building an online store with large number of
products is little difficult with WordPress.
To
conclude, choosing WordPress or Magento in building e-commerce site confusion
is now very much clear after reading this article when Magento is best for your
e-store development and when WP is good choice for building online store.
