Wordpress On ZC [Support Thread]

[HomsteadMom]

See Post 275..similar problem..fixed by ensuring wp-config.php is correctly
set..

Thanks I kept trying and finally got it working. Just need a bit of tinkering to get the look right now...

But I would still like to have the blog assessable from the drop down menu and not the side bar. Can anyone point me in the right direction to set that up?
Thanks,

[misty]

I would like to have the blog accesable from the drop menu. Any advice on how to add it there??

Suggest you search/post request in support thread for css dropdown header mod..
i.e how to add external/extra links at
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=58629

[mafiasam]

Okay I have been searching for two days for an answer for this and couldn't get any help on the wordpress forums either.

I believe this has something to do with the fact that wordpress is integrated into zen cart.

If you take a look at my main page for my blog
Old West Gambler's Press
you will see that it opens on the archive for October 8th, 2007 even though I have added more posts since the 8th. Also when you click on the archives for October in the sidebar you still get only the single post.

I have looked at the archive.php in the theme editor
here is that code...

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
<?php is_tag(); ?>
		<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

 	  <?php $post = $posts[0]; // Hack. Set $post so that the_date() works. ?>
 	  <?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category()) { ?>
		<h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for the ‘<?php single_cat_title(); ?>’ Category</h2>
 	  <?php /* If this is a tag archive */ } elseif( is_tag() ) { ?>
		<h2 class="pagetitle">Posts Tagged ‘<?php single_tag_title(); ?>’</h2>
 	  <?php /* If this is a daily archive */ } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
		<h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for <?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?></h2>
 	  <?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
		<h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for <?php the_time('F, Y'); ?></h2>
 	  <?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_year()) { ?>
		<h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for <?php the_time('Y'); ?></h2>
	  <?php /* If this is an author archive */ } elseif (is_author()) { ?>
		<h2 class="pagetitle">Author Archive</h2>
 	  <?php /* If this is a paged archive */ } elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged'])) { ?>
		<h2 class="pagetitle">Blog Archives</h2>
 	  <?php } ?>


		<div class="navigation">
			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
		</div>

		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<div class="post">
				<h3 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
				<small><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?></small>

				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content() ?>
				</div>

				<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>

			</div>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

		<div class="navigation">
			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
		</div>

	<?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
		<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

	</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Is this normal for a Wordpress on Zen Cart installation?

Can anyone give me any suggestions?

thanks for your help

[misty]

mafiasam..I have installed wordpress zencart mod(different versions) several times, on
different zencart installs/domains, and have never experienced problem you describe in your latest post..however, I see from your post 274, that you installed wordpress in it's own folder(blog), and not into zencart install..to date, this method has never worked for me..have always had to resort to installing directly into zencart..suggest you try
this method.

[mafiasam]

mafiasam..I have installed wordpress zencart mod(different versions) several times, on
different zencart installs/domains, and have never experienced problem you describe in your latest post..however, I see from your post 274, that you installed wordpress in it's own folder(blog), and not into zencart install..to date, this method has never worked for me..have always had to resort to installing directly into zencart..suggest you try
this method.

I wish I could do that but I am determined to make this work. This is obviously a problem with the presentation of data and not something that is going to be a deal killer.

I need to find out what files exactly are being called. do you have any suggestions?

I may have tracked it down to the wp_get_archives tag located in the zen cart file /includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_wp_archives.php

here is the code for that file...

<?php $content = "";

if($woz_install){
	
  //start wp output
  ob_start();
  wp_get_archives('type=monthly');
  $out = ob_get_clean();
  //end wp output

  $content .= '<ul>'.$out.'</ul>';
	
}
?>

[misty]

Suggest you contact member hira, dev of this mod, either via personal message here, or via his website..

[mafiasam]

Suggest you contact member hira, dev of this mod, either via personal message here, or via his website..

Thanks Misty.

Now it is getting really interesting.

I changed a couple things and now it is giving me the posts I want but it is not staying in zen cart when it does it.
I changed the WordPress address (URL): to http://blog.oldwestgames.com
and the Blog address (URL): to http://oldwestgames.com/blog
I also added a line to .htaccess -

RewriteRule ^blog/ index\.php?main_page=wordpress&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

This was explained by the developer Hira in this post in his blog for using wordpress with zencart with seo urls.

I'll contact Hira.

Thanks again Misty.

[mafiasam]

Does ANYONE have wordpress installed in the zen cart directory and use Ultimate SEO URLs as well?

[billybonds]

Hi

Firstly thanks for sharing this mod and for the support...

I think I've got it up and running correctly and am now at the tinkering around stage.

I have the blog set up to show threads on the home page of my site. My URL is http://africanartandmasks.com/index.php.

My problem is that the blog post are not 'obeying' the constraints of the div they are contained within.

I have looked through style.css and changed a few values but have not resolved the problem.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

[billybonds]

Sorry for the bump but I have still not resolved this...

http://africanartandmasks.com/

Firstly, I cannot see where to get rid of the divider between posts. I am also getting confused because I cannot work out which stylesheet is affecting the blog on the home page since it appears different to the blog on its own page.

http://africanartandmasks.com/?.php

I still cannot get the blog on the home page to fit inside the div. If I narrow the settings for width for the div #page - it narrows on the blogs page but not on my home page.

Any ideas?

Thanks.