OpenCart is easily one of the best opensource shopping carts you can use for your online store whether you have your own products or dropship. The interface is very userfriendly and you can literally get started selling products in a few hours or less.
However, the OpenCart platform is only designed as a CMS for adding products and creating a nice store but it lacks one feature that distinguishes many of the most successful websites: a blog.
Can’t I just install WordPress?
You might be thinking to yourself that you can simply install a WordPress blog to another directory on the site (i.e. site.com/blog) or even as a new subdomain (i.e. blog.site.com) but the downside is that the WordPress blog becomes its own instance and there is no clear integration between the blog and the shopping cart.
The best solution then is for an OpenCart blog integration that integrates the power of an online shopping cart combined with a blog module that perfectly blends everything together.
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