654321 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Hi all,We are in the startup stage of setting up our first web shop. We are quite ambitious about it and want the shop to not just be a shop but also a place for users to find information and be part of a community.In other words, what we want to build is a web shop that has some of the capabilities a web magazine have. Journalists need to be able to write articles with images, organize them with a taxonomy and have manual control over which ones get presented on front pages, e.g. "this months guide to ...". We need more control than just a blog with the most recent article on top. Users need to be able to comment on and share the content. We were thinking about using Drupal + Übercart as Drupal is a powerful CMS that can do all this and much more.But could we also do this with Prestashop and maybe save ourselves some work?Best regards,Kromudh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GottaBark Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Hi,This is the exact same technology issue I'm struggling with at this time. It would appear that Prestashop has great foundation, momentum, features, etc. But--is it capable of taking on the CMS portion. Or, should we jump into Drupal/Uber? We're also at a decision point on which approach. I need to handle a lot of pics, html, subdomains, who know what. The question what will do the heavy lifting best. We could run things all through the SQL for PShop--but will PS get slow--whereas Drupal would stay quick?It's puzzling.Cheers,GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prestanesia Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Ive seen the site where its using Prestashop for its e-commerce and wordpress for news/blogging stuff. Not difficult to install, we just need to create a similiar theme for both of the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GottaBark Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Hi,Wordpress seems to be my best short term CMS choice. They have numerous member-based strategies and a robust development base. I'm thinking I can deloy a straddle strategy whereby I look to WP and PS for some CMS like orientations. WP has some widgets that can lead out of some dynamite themes straightaway into a Prestashop (PS) cart.I think the people of PS appear to have a strong vision. They're developing to stay in the game. I think they should also develop or extend the Prestashop Wordpress iframe plugin that has been idle. Why would they not have some kind of presence there. Below is the addon:WP PrestaShop * Version 1.2.1 * Updated 2010-1-18 * Downloads 5,195I go to WP plugins and see this thing not updated since January 2010. And the connection must be FREE to get me to look at PS. I forgot to type in Wordpress into the addons.prestashop.com, when I did I got the following:Wordpress recent posts 90,00 €Prestashop to Wordpress 60,00 €PrestaShopAPI 75,00 €MODULAR Intense Debate Comments and 3 Free Bonus Widgets 30,00 €4 items to tie into my best CMS solution? Seems light. It would seem the Prestashop to Wordpress should be developed by the PS people, like the newsletter they created, so I have confidence of continued support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prestanesia Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 no need to use iframe. just install WP in sub domain and using same template as PS. Check this website for example : http://www.cadeau-maestro.com/ and look for blog/news link at the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoPas Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 I am struggling with exactly the same stuff, i am running into the fact that it is not only the e-commerce part that needs to be managed but also the static / publishing side. The current setup of the cms module does not fit my needs. I am wondering what other people use to be able to easily manage this? Should i install wordpress and create a new theme? Then i have to manage 2 software installs? Seems somewhat difficult for the end-user the manage etc.But again i am wondering what other people use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbfish Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 If you are good in programming, you can embedded an iframe into Prestashop. The iframe will feature the news feed from WordPress. When user click on any of the news feed, they will be redirected to your WordPress post. You can easily create a directory and install WordPress onto it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurselisa Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Prestashop is a new store CMS with its final realease being launched just this summer. ... it has a clean TABLE-less template and also, it has a very customizable ... Does that work on every operating system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbfish Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 what operating system are you talking about? haha.. Prestashop is written in PHP, run on apache, lighttpd and etc. In another words, get a Linux web hosting and you are done with Prestashop . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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