Wordpress On ZC [Support Thread]

[misty]

My zencart is still at version 1.36 and Wordpress is installed in a sub-folder named "blog" under my catalogue (home/mysite/public_html/blog).

Latest version of Zencart Wordpress module works
when installed into your actual zencart folder/site
and not separate folder as you have stated.

[HeathenMagic]

Hello there,

Thanks to everyones help. I think I have it cracked. Please check out site below to see if I have. I was wondering how you guys managed to seamlessly pop the blog into Zencart, when you click on a sidebox link. contrary to readme with mod, I put index.php back in wordpress/ because when I clicked on sidebox links, it went awol. So I am guessing I haven't fully installed it.

Cheers!

[misty]

HeathenMagic...
http://www.dezinashop.com/demo/
Above shows how WordPress module should look when seamlessly integrated into zencart

[HeathenMagic]

Hello Misty,

Thankyou for helping me. I must admit, my installation also is in public_html/wordpress etc....

If I put a direct url to wordpress, it is integrated.

http://thegemtree.com/index.php?main_page=wordpress

I know I have to alter css, footer and header files also.

But the sidebox links and some links on the page above, have a /?cat=1 ending, which makes it go back to the home page.

So I am getting! there. lol

[misty]

Hello Misty,

Thankyou for helping me. I must admit, my installation also is in public_html/wordpress etc....

If I put a direct url to wordpress, it is integrated.

http://thegemtree.com/index.php?main_page=wordpress

I know I have to alter css, footer and header files also.

But the sidebox links and some links on the page above, have a /?cat=1 ending, which makes it go back to the home page.

So I am getting! there. lol

The problem/s you are having is because you have installed mod into it's own folder i.e. wordpress...it should be installed directly into your zencart folder....HTH

[HeathenMagic]

Understood. I installed it through Fantastico, which wouldn't let me install it in the root. So I will install it manually. Hope this helps others out, as I know Fantastico is popular.

Cheers for the pointers!

[Dorn]

Hope someone can help

I've installed Zencart 1.3.7 (with Future-Zen template), and the latest Wordpress release, using the mimetastic theme (for the fluid aspect of the theme).

I have everything running fine at the moment, except the wordpress sideboxes don't display the same as the rest of the sideboxes.

Can somebody please point me in the right area to modify to fix this?

I have ordered the book, and waiting for it to arrive, but want to fix this ASAP.

Thanks in advance

Duane

Demo of the problem:

www.rndsolutions.com.au

[Stenrique]

Dorn,

I had the same problem and I resolved it by editing the /includes/templates/template_default/sideboxes/tpl_wp_cats.php file:

$content = "";
$content .= '<div id="' . str_replace('_', '-', $box_id . 'Content') . '" class="sideBoxContent centeredContent">';

if($woz_install){
	
  //start wp output
  ob_start();
  wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0');
  $out = ob_get_clean();
  //end wp output

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

Hope this help.

[Dorn]

Stenrique,

If you could see me now, I am on my knees praising you, thanks, it worked perfectly.

Dorn

[Stenrique]

Glad I can be of help Dorn.

My praise to the Zen Cart team and community.