Already have a blog on another platform and want to find out how to use it with Americommerce Spark Pay Online Stores ?
There are a few different ways you can go about merging the two and having them work together.
Using the RSS Widget - For more info on Widgets Click Here!
You can add this to any section of your store to display information and updates from your RSS feed of your blog and is great for SEO purposes.
You can place the RSS feed of your other blog in the section for Feed Url below:
Adding your blog to your menu bar-
You can add a link to your existing Wordpress or blog into your top navigation menu.
This will be found under Content > Menus & Navigation.
For more info check out How To Edit Site Navigation And Links.
Embedded Commerce -
Want to utilize your existing blog as your storefront?
You may want to look into the embedded commerce. Basically if you build the products on the site, you can use the embed tools to have the link on the site, but when clicked it will add the item to the cart on the Americommerce Spark Pay Online Stores site. You'd have to use the cart functionality of the site to be able to track the orders, customers and other data.
If you have your own store on another platform that is not hosted with Americommerce Spark Pay Online Stores but you use the shopping cart aspect of the software, you can use any platform you'd like and as long as the products are coded to add the product to the cart, you're good to go.
For more info, check out our article on Getting Started With Embedded Commerce
Domains -
Q. I want to host my blog on Americommerce Spark Pay Online Stores such that the link displays http://mystore.com/blog is there a way for me to host our blog on Americommerce Spark Pay Online Stores or would I have to use an external hosting platform and redirect it to our URL?
A. Unfortunately we do not currently support Wordpress installations on our server but this can be done with Embedded Commerce, (see above) or this can be setup as blog.yoursite.com. You'd have to purchase the Wordpress domain service for the sub-domain pointing to the Wordpress blog to work.
More Info -
Depending on how your WordPress site is set up, it may automatically strip out <form> tags, which prevents our standard button code from working. Instead of forms, you may have to use links.