title: Full Magento / Wordpress integration
body: <p>Can anyone offer any advice on the best way to <strong>fully</strong> integrate a wordpress blog into a magento store?</p>
  
  <p>I have seen many different approaches of this integration (lazzymonkeys, sonassi etc), but none seem to fully integrate the entire blog, i.e. posts, categories, archives, search etc.</p>
  
  <p>So far, I have created a module that is essentially a stand-alone blog with seperate blocks, controllers and templates for each part of the blog.  Instead of using my own models for the data though, I am calling wordpress functions from my blocks to get the data and then building the templates based on this.</p>
  
  <p>This method allows me to avoid relying on url re-writes and provides full control over the content and layout of the blog. Unfortunately though, it requires a lot of work building all of the different aspects of the wordpress blog back in the magento store.</p>
  
  <p>Basically, I am creating a blog in magento which uses data from a wordpress blog.</p>
  
  <p>Is this a good solution, or can anyone offer some ideas on a better way to approach this?</p>