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

[Amethyst_fairy]

Hi,
I am on zencart 1.5.5a with sterling grand template pretty new install. Have imported database so zencart and wordpress on same database and they are on the same server. Now don't know if makes a difference but have wordpress on sub domain blog.thedragonskeep.net. I am tying to install on www.thedragonskeep.net but every time enable sideboxes the product pages go blank. I have installed and reinstalled.

[05-Oct-2016 13:34:56 America/Denver] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_list_pages() in /home1/thedrah1/public_html/includes/templates/stirling_grand/sideboxes/tpl_wp_pages_sidebox.php on line 15


Any help would be extremely grateful.
Thanks
Sandria

[lat9]

Sandria, did you make the update to your template's /common/html_header.php, adding the following code fragment just before the <DOCTYPE> specification?

<?php
/**
 * WordPress for Zen Cart (wp4zen)
 * call for WordPress code
 * 
 */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require_once(DIR_FS_WORDPRESS . 'wp-load.php');
?>

[soxophoneplayer]

Hi,
I am on zencart 1.5.5a with sterling grand template pretty new install. Have imported database so zencart and wordpress on same database and they are on the same server. Now don't know if makes a difference but have wordpress on sub domain blog.thedragonskeep.net. I am tying to install on www.thedragonskeep.net but every time enable sideboxes the product pages go blank. I have installed and reinstalled.

[05-Oct-2016 13:34:56 America/Denver] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_list_pages() in /home1/thedrah1/public_html/includes/templates/stirling_grand/sideboxes/tpl_wp_pages_sidebox.php on line 15


Any help would be extremely grateful.
Thanks
Sandria

Your Wordpress folder needs to be in same domain, in your root - ie in the same folder where your zen cart admin, includes etc folders reside. So your blog url would then be www.thedragonskeep.net/wordpress

You can see my example in my sig file. (Its zc 1.5.5a with Resp Sheffield Blue and WP4Zen).

[Amethyst_fairy]

Thanks lat9 that worked. Sidebox now working. :-)

[Nick1973]

When I install this module, I get a blank white screen on my website. All the admin bits seem to be working and I can see the sideboxes etc. However, when I apply:

<?php
/**
* WordPress for Zen Cart (wp4zen)
* call for WordPress code
*
*/
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require_once(DIR_FS_WORDPRESS . 'wp-load.php');
?>

in my html_header.php file it crashes the site and all I get is a blank page. I am running Zen Cart 1.5.4

[Nick1973]

Fixed it....I didn't have a trailing slash after WordPress Blog Path in the admin

[ShopVille]

Can this plugin be used to show the full wp blog and load posts within zencart not just the side boxes so that the WP site does NOT have to be styled to match the store?

[soxophoneplayer]

Can this plugin be used to show the full wp blog and load posts within zencart not just the side boxes so that the WP site does NOT have to be styled to match the store?

No. I was surprised by this as the mod demo site seemed to show it being done.

I ended up looking for a WP template (Ribsome Pro) that most closely resembled my ZC template (Responsive Sheffield Blue 2.0). I got the pro WP template as the free version limited the styling changes. In the end it only took a few hours of css fiddling to get a pretty good match. I think the pro WP temp was about 35 euros. I also used the pro version of WP4 to get the added features.

(Can't show you as I dropped both when I upgraded to zc 1.5.5f.)

[ShopVille]

No. I was surprised by this as the mod demo site seemed to show it being done.

I ended up looking for a WP template (Ribsome Pro) that most closely resembled my ZC template (Responsive Sheffield Blue 2.0). I got the pro WP template as the free version limited the styling changes. In the end it only took a few hours of css fiddling to get a pretty good match. I think the pro WP temp was about 35 euros. I also used the pro version of WP4 to get the added features.

(Can't show you as I dropped both when I upgraded to zc 1.5.5f.)

Have you tried https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=465 ?

[lat9]

Can this plugin be used to show the full wp blog and load posts within zencart not just the side boxes so that the WP site does NOT have to be styled to match the store?

I'm sure it can; that's a variant of the "Latest Blog Posts" sidebox, which is part of the plugin's premium version (per its readme).