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Magento & WordPress Multisite: a challenging marriage

For the relaunch of a project’s website, we chose to use two CMSes: Magento for managing products and being able to actually sell products online and WordPress for good old content such as news around products and company, information about the products’ designers and other similar stuff. But we were also having “satellite sites” / microsites around specific products or brands that were managed in different content management systems on different servers. This made publishing content to those different websites challenging and confusing for the editors as well as maintaining the sites for me as developer.

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Magento development environments with different database connections

After explaining, how to use Different database connections in WordPress development environments, I’m going to show, how to set up Magento development environments with different database connections. Magento works a little different here, since it has its database connection in an XML file rather than a configuration .php-file.

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Different database connections in WordPress development environments

Since I am using version control with GIT, I have set up different environments for my current WordPress/Magento-married project. For this project, I did not want to continue “cowboy coding”, so I set up a remote staging / testing / development site and multiple local development sites. Each site has its own purposeĀ and needs its own MySQL database. So I had to handle different database connections in my WordPress installations. Well, I could work with only one DB,

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Setting up a BitBucket git repo with A2 Hosting

Recently, I moved this website to A2 Hosting. Since I am using git at the office intensely for developing the company’s website, i felt like I’d have to continue using git for my home-story blog, too.

When I was a little more new to git, I chose Bitbucket as the service to host my repo. There I can have unlimited private repos with up to four more users and “sync”

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