I’m currently working on a Magento WordPress integration. One of the requirements is to display a list of products in a WordPress post, based on the tags in WordPress. Since Magento also supports tagging, I decided to ab(use) that functionality.

The build-in functionality of Magento’s tagging, allows to display a list of product only by giving the tag’s corresponding id. That leaves me with two problems:

• How to display Magento products for multiple tags?
• How to display Magento products for a given tag name?

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I made this little snippet, that you can use to change the page template within a Magento controller:

This particular example changes the template to ‘page/axjax.phtml’ if the ‘ajax’ get parameter is set to true (?ajax=true).

This is my first post. I’ll start blogging soon.