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Video: Magento product within Joomla content using MageBridge

Within Magento, the concept of CMS Markup Tags allows you to add dynamic content to CMS-pages. Using the MageBridge Content Plugin the same can be accomplished within Joomla!. This tutorial shows you how to create a link from within Joomla! to a MageBridge product-page.

More possibilities with Markup Tags

Using Magento CMS Markup Tags you can not only add links, but also add URLs to the Magento skin (for Magento skin images) but also any block that is part of the Magento theming engine. This can be powerful when used properly.

By using blocks, you can add any type of Magento content to your own CMS-content: It might be a product-image, a CMS static block, a product-advertisement, product-gallery, listing of random products, etcetera. The wonderful thing is that whatever is possible with Magento, is possible with MageBridge as well.

Smoother with Magento 1.4

The upcoming Magento version 1.4 introduces the concept of CMS Widgets, which basically extends the principle of CMS Tags with a lot more functionality. But Magento 1.4 also ships with a TinyMCE editor, with which these widgets can be added to your CMS-page without knowing about the underlying markup-code.

Magento widgets in the JCE editor

Yireo is already working on a plugin for the Joomla! editor JCE which will allow you to add Magento widgets easily to your Joomla! content. Linking your marketing blog to various parts of Magento becomes much much easier because of this.