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1. download and unzip MagePress.zip
2. Open the [your magento folder]
   
3. if you’re using a custom template rename the following folders from default to the name of your template:

• [your magento folder]/skin/frontend/default/default
• [your magento folder]/app/design/frontend/default/default
• Upload the contents of [your magento folder] to, (where else would it go) your magento folder…
  

Open the [your wordpress folder]

• upload the file: [your wordpress folder]/wp-content/themes/default/magepress.php
• to the wordpress template folder you are currently using
  

Open the index.php file of your wordpress template.
at the very top of the page you’ll see

<?php
/**
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Default_Theme
*/

Directly below that add the following lines:

/*    start    add magepress        */
if($_GET['magepress']) { require_once('magepress.php');return true;}
/*    end add magepress            */

That’s it. Save everything. We’re ready to go to the Magento Admin panel and set it up…

Log in to your Magento Admin panel

http://[your_domain.com]/admin

go to: >system>configuration>web

add the url to your wordpress blog here (see image below):

click the ’save config’ button
next we’ll create a post

from the top menu select >CMS>Wordpress Pages ( see below):

that takes us to the Wordpress Page Manager:

Click on the ‘Add New Wordpress Page’ button at the top right corner of the page…

Wordpress Pages work similar to Magento CMS pages

* Custom Design and Meta Data not yet implemented
Title and SEF URL Identifier work just like any cms page.

Category: lists all your Wordpress categories. If you add a new category
it will automatically appear here. Same goes if you delete a category
it will disappear from here.

Post: will list all the posts in the current category. If you change categories it
will automatically update.

Page or Block: not yet implemented.

Store View and Status work the same as a CMS page

Don’t forget to save when finished!

Here is our saved page in the Wordpress Page Manager:

We call it in the frontend by ID like this:

http://westgardiner.net/wordpress/index/index/id/1

and here’s the page

Click here to visit the actual page and watch the video

more to follow but this should get you started…