Wordpress On ZC [Support Thread]

**loosefast** · 24 Nov 2009, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by digidiva-kathy

Wordpress 3.8.5?? You mean 2.8.5? I'm running 2.8.6, maybe that's the problem. It seems that several of us are experiencing the same thing so I don't think it's us...

Ooops, I meant WordPress 2.8.6.
Here is the site http://berkautoguide.com/zen/

**thevintagesound** · 24 Nov 2009, 05:32 PM

I'm running 2.8.6 here with that problem.

**loosefast** · 24 Nov 2009, 05:50 PM

have you tried a fresh install of zen and wordpress and the latest WOZ?

**thevintagesound** · 24 Nov 2009, 06:14 PM

Brand new install on both. Here's what you get.
http://attentiontodesign.com/teststo...page=wordpress

**loosefast** · 24 Nov 2009, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by thevintagesound

Brand new install on both. Here's what you get.
http://attentiontodesign.com/teststo...page=wordpress

what version of php on your host? I've got 4.4.9

**thevintagesound** · 24 Nov 2009, 07:37 PM

PHP Version: 5.2.9 (Zend: 2.2.0)

**loosefast** · 25 Nov 2009, 05:21 AM

Originally Posted by thevintagesound

PHP Version: 5.2.9 (Zend: 2.2.0)

I think Hira mentioned a few pages back that he developed this mod on PHP4. Does your host allow you to switch back and forth to PHP 4 or use an .htaccess to assign version?

Is anybody else using this on PHP 5 with no issue?

**ALiepinieks** · 25 Nov 2009, 05:54 AM

Hi RMelick,

I had a similar problem (from memory) when performing my own 'manual' redirects from the root index.php file. I actually fixed it once (no idea how) however a subsequent re-install of ZC meant i could not reproduce my feats of the past.

**An interesting point - I noticed certain WP templates raised the error where others did not. Some in fact raised more errors, however I have yet to understand how I originally fixed it**

Anyway, I simply gave up in the end and stopped trying a full integration, which might sound like a lazy approach, but check out the site to see how i've integrated it first: www.qualityhomebrew.com.au.

the primary reason for 'giving up' was actually conflicting CSS, which I had neither the time or the patience to fix. Instead, I installed wordpress in a subfolder, used a redirect for the variable index.php?main_page=wordpress, and then incorporated wordpress entries manually into my zen-cart layout. i actually learnt quite a lot in the process, and as the whole purpose of wordpress in this site was to improve SEO and make it a 'sub-component' of ZC, i think it works quite well.

last but not least, there is a wealth of information on calling wordpress functions and variables directly from your ZC templates, so in a funny kind of way i have made my implementation a little more robust as no longer is WP relying on ZC or vica-versa.

I'm unfortunately not in a position to test using this site anymore as the one site I implemented it on is now LIVE, and just a tad busy this week to go from scratch again but if I can find a solution i'll post it here.

Good luck!

**DivaVocals** · 25 Nov 2009, 06:47 PM

FYI,

Your site loads VERY slow, and though my screen resolution is set to 1152 X 864, the left and right side of your site extends OFF my screen without even a scrollbar to see the far left and far right of the layout..

Originally Posted by ALiepinieks

Anyway, I simply gave up in the end and stopped trying a full integration, which might sound like a lazy approach, but check out the site to see how i've integrated it first: www.qualityhomebrew.com.au.

I don't think what you're doing is lazy.. I too gave up on full integration using WOZ because it was far too aggravating for me trying to work through all these hiccups for every site I tried using this module with.

I posted this earlier in the WOZ support thread: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=693495&postcount=655. These are my down and dirty instructions I came up with for using only the sideboxes from the WOZ module. I have since tweaked this process to include removing quite a bit of the code from the wp-configure.php file which interferes with other Zen Cart mods (Google feeds and SEO mods in particular). The code I removed was not needed for the WOZ sideboxes to work standalone.. I’ve also removed any files that were only used for the WOZ blog embedding, and were also not needed for the WOZ sideboxes to work standalone.

I'm also gonna create a 'wp_posts' sidebox which displays the same content as your WordPress latest posts widget (I'll be creating this sidebox based on these two links: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts & http://www.dezinashop.com/demo/?p=4) Hira has code in the language files that implies that this sidebox exists, but it is not included in the WOZ files..

I have been giving some thought to packaging this up as an alternate add-on, or as an alternate install option in the WOZ app.. (Giving all credit to Hira of course..

) It's another option that folks might wanna give a try..

Not to take anything away from Hira, but IMO a better method for blog embedding can be found here:
http://www.numinix.com/blog/2009/09/...n-cart-1-3-8a/

As of this writing, I have taken a quick glance at the instructions and supporting files provided by Numinix. Numinix's embedding/integration method would appear to work with my WOZ sidebox only method. However, in order to make this look aesthetically pleasing, I probably should disable the display of the blog sidebar on most of the blog pages while still being able to enable/display the WP widgets elsewhere. I believe some variation of this would work:

I will be editing the following files within my blog’s theme:

index.php
page.php
single.php
archive.php
search.php

Within these files I’ll find and delete the following line:

Code:

 
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

The sidebar will no longer display, while the WOZ sideboxes will continue to display. I could then continue to activate and use my WP widgets, but they will only display within the WOZ sideboxes.

I’ll be testing this over the weekend of course, but IMO this is a better solution for those who must embed WP content.. Best of both worlds IMO.. Again no disrespect to Hira, but I have never had good success getting the embedding portion of this module to work trouble free..

**loosefast** · 25 Nov 2009, 07:08 PM

It seems to me that we are getting away from discussing WOZ here.

Most recent posts are instead discussing other methods of using WordPress together with Zen Cart.

That's fine, but really not what this forum topic is about. I don't think it helps the folks having issues with this mod.

Has anybody setup the version 1.4 of WOZ with zen and gotten it to work?