WordPress® for Zen Cart® (wp4zen) [Support Thread]

[stitchnkitty]

OK here is a stupid Q? for all you supper smart gurus..

I am to upload all the contents of the "folder" into the root.. Not the folder itself....

all folders and files are names with a prefix of wp_ to differentiate them from the admin ;includes of the zencart.. except the index .php which already exists in the root.... I will assume that the "new" index is agreeable and is to integrate the two programs together???? and is necessary to overwrite the existing one.

[DivaVocals]

OK here is a stupid Q? for all you supper smart gurus..

I am to upload all the contents of the "folder" into the root.. Not the folder itself....

all folders and files are names with a prefix of wp_ to differentiate them from the admin ;includes of the zencart.. except the index .php which already exists in the root.... I will assume that the "new" index is agreeable and is to integrate the two programs together???? and is necessary to overwrite the existing one.

I don't know where/how you see an index.php file, but it is NOT part of this plugin..

On that same note I just noticed that I didn't seperate out the the uninstall SQL and readme from the rest of the install files.. You do NOT need to copy those files to your store root..

[stitchnkitty]

I don't know where/how you see an index.php file, but it is NOT part of this plugin..

No you are very correct.. I notice that the index.php is actually a part of the Wordpress package and if I install wordpress folders and files in the root directory, it will overwrite the existing Zencart index.php...

[DivaVocals]

No you are very correct.. I notice that the index.php is actually a part of the Wordpress package and if I install wordpress folders and files in the root directory, it will overwrite the existing Zencart index.php...

Truly this thread is NOT the place to walk you through how to install WordPress, but IN GENERAL you need WordPress in a subdirectory of Zen Cart or Zen Cart in a sub-directory of WordPress. You don't install them BOTH in the root of your domain..

[stitchnkitty]

Hea thankyou for you time - that pretty well answered it -

[ohmslaw]

Greetings DivaLocals!

I mistook the instructions about the database and put Wordpress into its own database. After seeing the error of my ways, I removed the separate database and put it into the zen database. Wordpress is working and I can post to it using the URL, but when I turn on any one of the sideboxes to access it from my cart, all of the other sideboxes after it in the sort order disappear and don't show up until I turn it off again. If it's the last sidebox, everything shows up except the footer. If it's first in the sort order, nothing appears. I'm not sure where in the zen database this is influenced, or if it's in the header file. The path to the Wordpress location is correct in the admin and has the trailing "/". Any suggestions?

[lhungil]

A partial page (missing content) may indicate an error occured. Zen Cart 1.5+ will usually generate a debug log when an error occurs. Can you check if any debug log was generated?

There could also be an issue with some malformed HTML... When you view the HTML source, are the other sideboxes / footer present? Or does the HTML content just "end" after the added sidebox?

It may also be useful to know which versions of Zen Cart and WordPress are involved.

[ohmslaw]

Thanks for the reply. The error message I'm receiving is strange:

Failed opening required 'includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_wp_pages_sidebox.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/<my-user>/public_html/store/includes/modules/sideboxes/<my-custom>/wp_pages_sidebox.php on line 7

I receive to similar warnings prior to that. The oddity is that the TPL files were copied into <my-custom> templates folder, and not into the template_default location. For kicks, I copied them into the default, but received the same results. All of the Wordpress mod files have been copied to the respective custom folders where indicated to do so.

The versions of Zen Cart and Wordpress are 1.5.1 and 3.9.1; I have this working on another store, using the correct procedure to install it. I tried to reproduce the correct procedure on this store after trying to repair the damage.

[DivaVocals]

Thanks for the reply. The error message I'm receiving is strange:

Failed opening required 'includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_wp_pages_sidebox.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/<my-user>/public_html/store/includes/modules/sideboxes/<my-custom>/wp_pages_sidebox.php on line 7

I receive to similar warnings prior to that. The oddity is that the TPL files were copied into <my-custom> templates folder, and not into the template_default location. For kicks, I copied them into the default, but received the same results. All of the Wordpress mod files have been copied to the respective custom folders where indicated to do so.

The versions of Zen Cart and Wordpress are 1.5.1 and 3.9.1; I have this working on another store, using the correct procedure to install it. I tried to reproduce the correct procedure on this store after trying to repair the damage.

You need to roll back to the point the store was before you installed this and START OVER with installing this module.. Your issues are CLEARLY related to an install gone wrong, and I would be guessing at what is the actual issue.. Suggest going over EVERY SINGLE step of the installation..

[ohmslaw]

Thank you for the reply. I've looked at the SQL logic for the uninstall and compared that to a dump of the database. I'm wondering if there are other database entries that have to be removed. Please advise. Thank you!