Wordpress On ZC [Support Thread]

[DivaVocals]

1. I do have two sideboxes enabled (as a test sort of) on the lower right side of the webpage. They are 'blog links' and 'blog pages'. Mostly this page is relying on the wordpress sidebar itself (displayed in the blog part) as opposed to the sidebar appearing in the zencart sideboxes. On another note, when I enabled the sidebar sidebox, it would display the sidebar in the sidebox (on the left column) and would not display the blog in the page.

So the sidebar sidebox would cause the display of the blog to fail.. hmmmmm...

what about the other sideboxes, did you find you had issues with those and the ability of the blog to work?? (categories etc..)

[bumba000]

Hey,
Thanks rainthebat. Haven't tried this yet I wanted to get this info out there first.

My install is in the root. Both ZC and WP are in the root. By root I mean inside of public_html.

I don't have the wp sidebox turned on but I do have some others. I don't use the manufacturers sidebox either.

This problem spawns when clicking the manu name in a product listing > being taken to the manufacturers page and give the option to then sort by category / see all products by that manu in a certain category. That's when ya get taken to the blog. Is this still apha sorter?

I will use DTK in admin to find the code that you refered to and try that out in just a min. I'm still not well versed in php but am on my way!

Thank You,
John

[bumba000]

No Go.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':' in /home/****/public_html/includes/modules/product_listing_alpha_sorter.php on line 29


any other ideas?

[rainthebat]

So the sidebar sidebox would cause the display of the blog to fail.. hmmmmm...

what about the other sideboxes, did you find you had issues with those and the ability of the blog to work?? (categories etc..)

The other sideboxes work. Just the sidebar sidebox does not. This box makes the function call: get_sidebar();

When the sidebox sidebar is on, funky things happen - the identical sidebar that is usually in the blog doesn't load - probably because it already has on a sidebox on column one. Also if on the home page the main blog won't display (just a message that says "oops, couldn't find that page", but the sidebox sidebar does display.

[rainthebat]

No Go.
any other ideas?

When you are brought to the blog page, what page are you brought to?

Is it
site.com/?yadaYada
or is it:
site.com/index.php?main_page=wordpress

I don't have any ideas, just trying to help come up with something.

[rainthebat]

any other ideas?

I go here:
http://www.12volt-travel.com/12-volt...ies-c-688.html

and select a manufacturer, and brought to the blog page at this url:
http://www.12volt-travel.com/?main_p...&filter_id=168

notice this from the link above:

.com/?main_page

something is missing from there, and it is the word index.php.

o.k., o.k., It seems to be a conflict between another module you have. I believe it is the seo module of some sort. I've never used this, but did see some posts just a few pages back with some people dealing with problems associated with the seo addon.

Let me know if you come up with anything on this.

[bumba000]

The address in the address bar is correct

.com/?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=2&sort=20a&filter_id=88

But the page that is being displayed is the blog home.

the breadcrumbs also read - home :: manufacturers name :: blog home.

[bumba000]

Ha Ha. I just found my old posts from a year ago about this same issue. No answers there though. Someone else mentioned it and the author pointed them to instructions for installing WOZ and using SEO URLs. I have done this. It doesn't work.

I turned off the URLs a sec went to the front side ran through the same routine to get the alpha sorter and it worked just fine.

Also after I turned the URLs back on I went through it all again and ended up back at the blog home page. Since the address bar had the right address (as before) for the page I was supposed to be seeing I added " index.php " where RainTheBat pointed out it was missing from.

I was taken directly to the page I should have seen before.

I sure hope this helps someone help me because I'm still lost here.

Thanks,
John

[rainthebat]

because I'm still lost here.

Hey John,

This is why any page with a question mark at the beginning will go to wordpress, it is located in /includes/extra_configures/wordpress-config.php:

if($req=='?'){
        $_GET['main_page']='wordpress';

if the requested url has a ? at the beginning, then have that page load wordpress_default.php.

o.k., o.k., tried this out:
12volt-travel.com/?main_page=index&cPath=96&sort=20a&filter_id=306 <-goes to blog

now add the word index.php before the question mark.
now you get to the right page!
12volt-travel.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=96&sort=20a&filter_id=306 <-goes to correct page
forwards you automatically to:
12volt-travel.com/12-volt-hair-dryers-curling-irons-c-96.html?filter_id=306&sort=20a <-goes to correct page

It really seems like adding the index.php in there is the way to go unless of course that would screw up the url mod.

I think that mod does something with your .htaccess file? If it does, perhaps this is where you need to add in 'index.php'

[bumba000]

Would this be easier? >> Can I somehow remove the ? from the address?