Magento is a shopping cart script that I do not recommend under any circumstances.
Click here to see an image of the magento database structure. Now imagine what it must be like to code a magento plugin.
It is over 1 million lines of code, it crashes on shared hosting so you have to run it on a VPS, and the database structure is complex, so just imagine what coding a plugin for it is like! The search feature did not work on a fresh install and the documentation isn't explanatory. The support on the official magento forums is abysmal.
I made a Brands plugin so products could be assigned to brands, brands could be browsed and was visible on the product page , search results, category page and search results, and you could filter by brand.
I also made a Showdown plugin where 2 products were chosen at random in a match, and the general public had to vote for which product they liked the best. A new match happened every day.
As I made 2 Magento plugins, I should be able to make a plugin for any shopping cart or CMS. With Wordpress, most plugins cost $50, $100 maximum, but I've seen Magento plugins that cost $800, so you need real programming talent to make a Magento plugin. It's not simple.
These plugins were made for Magento 1.x and was tested with 1.2.1.7 in 2012, so it wouldn't work with Magento 2.x now as that isn't backwards compatible.
