Integrating pre-existing wordpress?

31 Oct 2012, 22:34

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Integrating pre-existing wordpress?

I have been running a blog for some time now on my site, http://marginallyclever.com/
I've recently added the zencart store and I'd like to integrate the blog into the main page of the store, a bit like http://adafruit.com
Should I "pull" the sidebars into wordpress or should I pull the wordpress blog into the main page of zencart?
Not sure the best way to go about this. Trying to think ahead about ease of upgrading both systems.

Thanks!

31 Oct 2012, 22:41

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kobra

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Re: Integrating pre-existing wordpress?

There are a couple of 3rd party plugins - not sure if they were successful or not

http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1013
http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=465

31 Oct 2012, 22:55

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picandnix

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Re: Integrating pre-existing wordpress?

try this, by far the best method I have used https://www.numinix.com/blog/2009/09/26/integrating-wordpress-into-zen-cart-1-3-8a/?main_page=blog&/2009/09/26/integrating-wordpress-into-zen-cart-1-3-8a/=/

01 Nov 2012, 09:24

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stevesh

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Re: Integrating pre-existing wordpress?

I agree with picandnix - I've used numinix's method several times.

02 Nov 2012, 00:47

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i_make_robots

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Re: Integrating pre-existing wordpress?

"So firstly, this tutorial assumes you have one the following setups:

Situation 1

Zen Cart installed to the root
WordPress installed to a sub-folder such as /blog/

We’ve also achieved the following situation:

Situation 2

Zen Cart installed to a sub-folder such as /shop/
WordPress installed to a sub-folder such as /blog/"

Neither of these applies to me. Wordpress is in ./ and zen cart is in ./shop I tried to follow the steps and broke my dev server.

02 Nov 2012, 03:34

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i_make_robots

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Re: Integrating pre-existing wordpress?

Ok, I set up a server @ http://test.reverb-marketing.com/ wherein I put ./blog/, ./shop/, and ./forum/. I copied over all the existing code and databases, so everything functioned the same. I followed the steps in the NUMINIX doc. I'm not seeing my blog on the homepage of my shop. What have I missed? Sorry for being so dumb.

02 Nov 2012, 07:53

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picandnix

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Re: Integrating pre-existing wordpress?

have you added a link/ez page to your blog? the numinix mod is to build your blog into you store as an additional page or pages not to replace the homepage. If I understand correctly perhaps you need your WordPress site as your homepage with a link to your store in a menu?

The alternative would be find a way to set an ez page (your blog) as the homepage within Zen cart, but this in my opinion is missing the point of having a store and its objective of selling things.

02 Nov 2012, 09:39

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Re: Integrating pre-existing wordpress?

That's right. The numinix mod doesn't replace your Zencart main page with the Wordpress main page. It embeds Wordpress in the Zencart center column when the browser is pointed to yoursite.com/blog. You could redirect your main page to /blog.

02 Nov 2012, 16:30

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i_make_robots

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Re: Integrating pre-existing wordpress?

Ok, how do i redirect it? Remember that I want the home link at the top of zencart to also go to the blog page, and I don't want to prevent access to any other pages (such as the root category page).

I like the blog on the main page. Sparkfun and Adafruit both do it and it seems to work well for them.

02 Nov 2012, 17:06

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stevesh

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Re: Integrating pre-existing wordpress?

The easiest way is probably through your hosting control panel.

02 Nov 2012, 17:07

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picandnix

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Re: Integrating pre-existing wordpress?

You could use a redirect by creating a htaccess file in your root folder on server, or your hosting panel (cpanel?) should have the facility to redirect.

02 Nov 2012, 17:08

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picandnix

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Re: Integrating pre-existing wordpress?

stevesh:
The easiest way is probably through your hosting control panel.

damn it! lol he strikes again.