Wordpress On ZC [Support Thread]

[kiddo]

Misty, quick update...

I did the same install but with WP in a different directory. ie: ZC in the root dir, and WP in /blog and it works just fine.

PM me if you want the link to that demo

[misty]

Vanilla ZenCart 1.38a installed...now for WordPress

Installed WordPress, integrated into zencart.. get following error..

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/myusername/public_html/includes/templates/template_default/common/html_header.php:22) in /home/myuser/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850

[kiddo]

Good! Now try adding the patch.

[misty]

Good! Now try adding the patch.

WITHOUT patch..possible to access via

http://www.mydomain.co.uk/?

WITH patch..access via BOTH..

http://www.mydomain.co.uk/index.php?main_page=wordpress

AND

http://www.mydomain.co.uk/?

Conclusion...patch not absolutely essential to access, BUT have to test blog and all sideboxes yet to confirm this..

[kiddo]

One place where I see this fix things is in the blog sidebar where the sidebox heading text is clickable and the link is /index.php?main_page=wordpress

If you leave the wp sideboxes in the default position, they work well, but I think if you try moving them to the right column a few things break that need a few tweeks to the WP default template. I've had to fix that before and I think it had to do with commenting out calling the proper wp side column. (comment it out I think.

[misty]

One place where I see this fix things is in the blog sidebar where the sidebox heading text is clickable and the link is /index.php?main_page=wordpress

If you leave the wp sideboxes in the default position, they work well, but I think if you try moving them to the right column a few things break that need a few tweeks to the WP default template. I've had to fix that before and I think it had to do with commenting out calling the proper wp side column. (comment it out I think.

Tested all zencart WPress sideboxes, both left and right side..
only place where patch is required would be more link on
Blog Sidebar.
Installation/all testing using Classic Template on brand new Vanilla install of zencart 1.3.8a..
Good work with patch Kiddo...

[DivaVocals]

Tested all zencart WPress sideboxes, both left and right side..
only place where patch is required would be more link on
Blog Sidebar.
Installation/all testing using Classic Template on brand new Vanilla install of zencart 1.3.8a..
Good work with patch Kiddo...

Wow.. You ladies had a busy night I see.. I haven't tried this patch yet.. (gotta get ready for work right now) But I plan to do it tonight.. Your patch is in the file that I suspected needed to be modified.. I just had NO CLUE what the modification was.. I was (kinda) okay using any of the three the workaround links except that I wouldn't be able to use the link on the Blog Sidebox header.. (and I was sorta formulating a workaround for that)

In any case I concur with Misty.. Good work on the patch! You totally ROCK!!!!

I have been playing with this mod, and doing minor tweaks to the WordPress styles.. I like WordPress, but WordPress is soo not like Zen.. Some styles are located in places you may not intuitively think to look for 'em.. (at least IMO)

[DivaVocals]

Okay.. so I took two seconds out to do this while I was brushing my teeth.. and dammed if this didn't do the trick!! Thank you thank you thank you Kiddo!!! You sooo totally rock girl!!! Now I just have to reactivate the link on the blog sidebox header again, and I'll be cooking with Crisco!!!

No, it just didn't work. I spend some time figuring it out. Oddly, other sites I've upgraded to 2.7 seem to have no problem. But as someone point out, this may be because of other (seo) mods masking the problem.

So I read these posts and try to figure out what it's really supposed to do (or what you think it's supposed to do) and set up test to see if it breaks for me too.

Yes it breaks for me.

So if the demo I make is what you are expecting to do, I post it here. I just trying to be sure Im not misunderstanding and post foolishness. If above is what you want, do this:

In includes/extra_configures/wordpress-config.php
find:

    $i=strlen(DIR_WS_CATALOG);
    $req=substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$i,1);
    if($req=='?') {
        $_GET['main_page']='wordpress';
    }

and just BELOW that block, ADD this:

    // kiddos patch for WP 2.7
    $i=strlen(DIR_WS_CATALOG);
    $req=substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$i,1);
    if(($req=='i') && ($_GET['main_page']=='wordpress')) {
        $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = str_replace("index.php","",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
    }

Only do this if the above demo is acting like you think it should.

If this makes other things explode I'll try to fix if I can reproduce the problem.

[misty]

Pleased to hear working for you, Diva...now got to find that shovel...been snowing here in UK for past 8 hours..
need to dig myself out of 6 inches snow..

[DivaVocals]

Just wanted to add this.. I tried Kiddo's update on both a vanilla install of Zen Cart and on a modded Zen Cart install (dev site).. Works fine on both.


Wanted to make sure I included my install details:

• Installed with WordPress integrated into Zen Cart (i.e. both Word Press and Zen Cart files are in the same root directory)
• WordPress tables are in the same database as the Zen Cart tables (used "wp_" table prefix for the Word Press tables)

Thanks again Kiddo for coming up with the magic fix!