Wordpress On ZC [Support Thread]

[hedgehog72]

Hi all. Thanks for all the pointers and tips throughout this thread. I think Ive managed to get it working properly, although, even with the patch my side bar links are /?p=<number> and not /index.php?mainpage=wordpress&p=<number> and if I try to change the permalinks within wordpress it gets really confused and wont display anything properly!

Anyway, to help others get towhere I am, ive put a small howto together which hopefully will get some people up and running, even if the permalinks are not right yet.

heres the link http://www.techize.co.uk/news/57-how...er-nicely.html

Now if someone might help out and show me how to get the permalinks working properly I would be for ever greatful! The site that wordpress is on is here http://www.papatheo.co.uk/.

Many thanks to all.

Jonathan

[DivaVocals]

Strange..not had a problem on test site using WordPress 2.7
and posting on different days, after using kiddo's fix..

Except there are variables on my blog that may not apply to your test blog.
1. There are two admins posting on this blog.. and what's strange is that it's almost as if as soon as the 2nd admin posted a blog article that the issue surfaced.. Though I'll need to do a lot more testing to see if this is related to this issue..
2. The blog was updated to Word Press v2.7.1 and this may be a contributing factor..

I need to rule out a few things so I am going to do some more testing tonight to see if I can figure out exactly what combo of things might be causing the posting issues..

[DivaVocals]

Except there are variables on my blog that may not apply to your test blog.
1. There are two admins posting on this blog.. and what's strange is that it's almost as if as soon as the 2nd admin posted a blog article that the issue surfaced.. Though I'll need to do a lot more testing to see if this is related to this issue..
2. The blog was updated to Word Press v2.7.1 and this may be a contributing factor..

I need to rule out a few things so I am going to do some more testing tonight to see if I can figure out exactly what combo of things might be causing the posting issues..

Well more testing and I have determined that this is definitely not an issue due to the slightly updated version of WordPress, or the two admins.. I can't imagine that it's some conflict with an add-on I am running as there really isn't any obvious conflict between this add on and any other Zen add-on that I can see.. if there is the link is not clear..

What I do know is this.. The first posts for this particular blog were created on Feb 15th. Any posts dated after Feb 15th will NOT show up via WOZ until I go into the WordPress admin and change the posting date on them to February 15th. BUT if I view them using the WordPress index.php, I can see posts dated after Feb 15th just fine.. So what the heck is going on is anyone's guess..

So that said I have little patience at this point to try and figure out what little tiny thing is making this add-on go bonkers.. Gonna skin the WordPress blog to match the site, and move on.. Client is okay with this solution, so all's well I guess.. Might look at that RSS mod myself now..

[misty]

The blog was updated to Word Press v2.7.1 and this may be a contributing factor..

Have you tried wordpress site/forums...see if anyone else had this problem on updating..

[supersnow]

This is one of the slickest mods out there!

Thank You!!!

It works very well with both ZC and WP installed in the site root.

Sharing the database makes the MySQL Backup mod grab all the data.

The Google Sitemap mod works perfectly in harmony with the WP sitemap plugin and includes the WP pages in their own entry in the sitemap index file.

Add a few plugins like NextGen and cform II...

This really puts the icing on Zen Cart.

Don't use a wimpy server and all will be well.

Which WP sitemap plugin is the best? Does this intergrate into the zencart sitemap addon too?

I have the core zencart sitemap with ezpages integration plus I have the goolge XML sitemap installed to communicate with Google on zencart 1.3.7.1.

I really like wordpresss but I want Google and our customers to be able to locate both pages and posts from our integrate wordpress module from our sitemaps.

Please help!

[DivaVocals]

Have you tried wordpress site/forums...see if anyone else had this problem on updating..

I've searched the WordPress forums, and found nothing.. Then again, I didn't really expect to find anything there.. Based on my testing, it seems clear that the problem is not within WordPress, but with the WOZ add-on.. If I run WordPress as a standalone blog, the problem is non-existent. I'm plum out of ideas..

[misty]

You mention have 2 admins posting..are they admins for
wordpress or zencart or both...just wondering if conflict
there

[DivaVocals]

You mention have 2 admins posting..are they admins for
wordpress or zencart or both...just wondering if conflict
there

Nope that's not the problem either.. Even if I delete all the posts and have only one admin re-enter them all.. (Which is what I did to test this) The very next day the same admin added one additional post, and it would not show up in WOZ, but was visible if I viewed WordPress standalone. Once I changed the posting date of the new post to match the posting date of the other posts, then WOZ displayed the new post just fine.. Whatever this issue is, it has everything to do with the posting date and WOZ. Running WordPress standalone displays no such issue.. Very odd..

[DivaVocals]

Nope that's not the problem either.. Even if I delete all the posts and have only one admin re-enter them all.. (Which is what I did to test this) The very next day the same admin added one additional post, and it would not show up in WOZ, but was visible if I viewed WordPress standalone. Once I changed the posting date of the new post to match the posting date of the other posts, then WOZ displayed the new post just fine.. Whatever this issue is, it has everything to do with the posting date and WOZ. Running WordPress standalone displays no such issue.. Very odd..

There is one bright side to all of this.. I decided to forego using this mod, and simply have a standalone blog that is skinned to look like the main site.. So on my dev site, I moved the blog to it's own directory, made the changes necessary to the WordPress options table to reflect the new blog location, and uploaded and applied my new WordPress template.. THEN.. Just for fun, I decided to see if the links in the WOZ sideboxes would now point to my new blog location.. And WHADAYAKNOW, they did.. All the darn sideboxes work perfectly with my standalone WordPress blog!!! (I'm testing this on my dev site now to be COMPLETELY sure that this is not some fluke..)

Though the thing is, I'm not completely clear why they work.. Gonna do some testing to see if I can figure out the WHY. If I can get the sideboxes to consistently work, I think I will be okay with simply running WordPress as a standalone blog and using the WOZ sideboxes on the ZenCart side.. I'm using the links widget on the WordPress side to link back to featured product categories and the ZenContact form..

[misty]

Well done for trying every possible scenario..might actually
be another bonus...always found in live zencart production site with
numerous categories, products, attributes etc,
that wordpress and zencart each run quicker when run seperately but dont
envisage problem using sidebox links..