Wordpress On ZC [Support Thread]

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The problem with WOZ is that for some very limited purposes, it does work.

Only if you consider "working" to mean a mod that doesn't APPEAR to be broken, but behind the scenes is written ALL WRONG. Then yes WOZ is fantastic.. For shop owners that buy into the "if it don't LOOK broken" theory, then great have at it and install WOZ..

I think that most small shop owners who are NOT code savvy and are NOT able to know good from bad mods need to know that even IF this mod looks like it's working, it's a BAD IDEA to install a module that is FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED..

As long as you don't use any the other conflicting Zen mods (or maybe I should say ANY other mods) mentioned in the course of this thread, you can have a Zen Cart that displays content from your WordPress blog

And this is not a reality for shopowners.. Heck it's not even a reality that they won't use other WordPress plugins..

Visitors can add items to their cart, look at some posts, while they are at the same one site, same one navigation, same one template, and the checkout is displayed throughout. This is the experience that WOZ promised.

Unfortunately, for real world situations, where your Zen and WordPress are upgraded, you add other modules to your Zen installation as you need the additional function, the WOZ mod will drive you out of your mind and it will have to be dumped.

So, WOZ does not work.

And having blog posts under ONE navigation can be achieved in so any other ways without WOZ. Starting with the most obvious, making an attempt to style the WordPress theme.. THIS would be easier for most shop owners to achieve than trying to get WOZ to work.. IMHO if they would just try to put in the SAME effort they do into styling their Zen Cart stores as they do in styling their blogs then WHY is an "embedding" solution needed??

NOT ONE PERSON advocating blog embedding has ever shared a REAL benefit to having an embedded blog other than NOT having to style the blog..

It would be great if Zen store owners could download something from the Free Software Add Ons that does this. However, if they search on "wordpress" there, they will see two contributions - WordPress On ZenCart and WordPress On ZenCart - Sideboxes Only Edition v1.0. There are no other Add Ons that combine Zen And WordPress.

Not true.. search this forum for "WordPress" and there's a couple more contributions for WordPress.. (RSS feed contributions)

Some of us still have hope that this mod, or the concept behind it, will be taken on by a contributor that could benefit from all the feedback and discussion on this thread and 'fix WOZ' so to speak.

Gonna say this again.. WOZ REALLY can't be "fixed" it needs a re-write. As Schoolboy aptly pointed out, the Numinix solution works. Why would any contributor take on writing something that's already written..