Comments on: Magento vs Wp-E-Commerce: a comparison case study

By: Amir Blackburn

Amir Blackburn — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:11:36 +0000

At first I was confused that which platform should I used. But finallly I prefer Magento as it added blogging as a plug-in and for a pure e-commerce site, Magento may be the best answer.

By: Jim Markos

Jim Markos — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:53:40 +0000

I considering to migrate my store to Wp eCommerce, and I wonder about their support? I am going to use Cart2Cart tool to migrate data, because if I understood correctly, I should built my store design by myself in any case. I see comment from Dan who is the developer if this plugin. It is always pleasure to meet people from the backside. Nevertheless, thanks for comparison

By: Web Design

Web Design — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:34:14 +0000

Nice Blog on WP-e-commerce…

Thanks for Sharing !!

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 22:02:32 +0000

As payment gateway developer for wp based ecommerce solutions I really liked this article. Regarding your conclusion: “So yes, for sufficiently small store projects, I’d do it again.”
Why not for a big store project? 🙂

This is by the way a question I’d like to invite the development teams of Woocommerce, Jigoshop, WPEC, Cart66 to consider as well. Why can a platform which is actually more lightweight, more user and seo friendly not be brought to the “next level”?

As far I can see it might these reasons:
– Anybody developing WP ecommerce systems has simply accepted the idea that WP based ecommerce is “of course” only for small shops
– there is not enough ecommerce infrastructure products around there for WP (e.g. ERP systems)

By: John William Johnson, LMT, MFCC

John William Johnson, LMT, MFCC — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 05:51:29 +0000

Thanks for the article. Would be nice to see an update. I’ve spent the last year moving all my sites from a customized php/mysql pfiend format to Magento. I have one site left, and now i’m going bonkers. It doesn’t make sense to have one site in WP and all the rest in Magento. But magento certainly does require me to have a programmer help me out. And i’ve spent thousands of dollars making these changes.
Any comments on the SEO aspects? I’m not sure if it was google panda or the site re direct, but when i moved one of my sites (www.AllAboutChi.com) from php to magento, i totally lost my # 3 ranking on Google. Now i’m about 734!
I’d appreciate any comments you might have.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:34:44 +0000

I have used wp e-commerce on several occasions and I am pretty pleased with it so far. It is very customizable if you know what you are doing. Great job.

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:43:18 +0000

Hi Ashley,

I am a Web Developer by profession and we design and develop websites at Brandmantra.net.
I completely agree with what you have written in the article, to be more precise we offer wp-ecommerce solutions to 90% of our clients and except those you have a robust online store with lot of products we offer Magento.
Thanks for writing the informative article.

By: Yohan

Yohan — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 22:06:36 +0000

Hi Ashley. Thanks so much for the post. Great insight. I’m getting involved with a site right now that’s currently on Magento and feeling like I could do so much more for this business if it were on wordpress. Site will have maybe 10 products, but potentially very high traffic…(at least that’s the goal.. hmmmn, no really…)
If you have a moment, I’d really appreciate your thoughts on speed, etc with wordpress. Looking into wpengine as well…
Regardless, thanks so much for the insight.
All the best,
Y

By: Albert

Albert — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:36:52 +0000

Enjoyed the article. Thanks. I was wondering what the comfort zone is for using a wp e-commerce shop in terms of products and customers?

By: Matt Rhys-Davies

Matt Rhys-Davies — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:20:40 +0000

Thanks for the comparison Ashley.
I’m about to dive back into Magento after building sites in WordPress. I’ve found the woocommerce framework to be really great, but for larger operations WordPress just won’t cut it.