Integrating pre-existing wordpress?

[i-make-robots]

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!

[kobra]

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

[picandnix]

try this, by far the best method I have used https://www.numinix.com/blog/2009/09...cart-1-3-8a/=/

[stevesh]

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

[i-make-robots]

"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.

[i-make-robots]

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.

[picandnix]

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.

[stevesh]

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.

[i-make-robots]

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.

[stevesh]

The easiest way is probably through your hosting control panel.