Wordpress On ZC [Support Thread]

[eggdashure]

I would say that before messing with the .htaccess file that if eggdashure reviewed WOZ install instructions he will find he missed a step that this would resolve this issue... If I had to hazzard a guess I think that the WordPress setup portion of the WOZ instructions should be reviewed.

Why the third person rhetoric? LOL I'm right here, I feel like I'm in the principal's office and your talking to my parents.

To be honest I was working on the whole blog thing at 1AM and my brain was toast. I was just happy to see it loading on the page. I will play with the settings of Wordpress to finish up. Thank you though for taking the time to check on that for me.

Now I need to spend some time researching Ajax.

Thanks again.

[bumba000]

Hi All,

rainthebat

I do have a question, specifically what does BLOGNAMEHERE/ represent? Is it a path?

What I'm doing here is retrieving the end of the url. Whatever is after .com/

In my understanding if WOZ is installed correctly then the address would always be www.domain.com/blog

So with

require(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . 'english/YourTemp/wp_meta_tags.php'); 
function curPageURL() { 
 $pageURL = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
 return $pageURL;
  } 
    $wpPageBase = curPageURL(); 

I have the /blogAddress/whatever/ So now we can see the address that is being generated with the

echo strtoupper($wpPageBase); 

and even copy and paste if need be. This will print out somewhere in the header on the blogs page.

From there you would create your meta defines in languages/english/yourtemp/wp_meta_tags.php with the specific /BLOGADDRESS/WHATEVER/. Then spell out your metas.

I am using the strtoupper because we Like to Cap Every First Letter. That would make defining customs even tougher!

I would be very interested to see someone take what I've done and feed it right from the DB using the Another Wordpress Meta Plugin. This lets you create custom meta info for posts, pages. . . from within the WP admin when creating such content.

So that info all gets stored in the WP DB. I'm sure it wouldn't take much to get it really groovin'. I'm on my way out at the moment and then gettin busy with affiliates, but I think I might go DB with this next!

[DivaVocals]

Why the third person rhetoric? LOL I'm right here, I feel like I'm in the principal's office and your talking to my parents.

No 3rd person rhetoric at all.. I was simply addressing rainthebat's post regarding the fix he was suggesting to you. (because I did not think that editing the .htaccess file was the right approach) The 3rd person reference was necessary (IMO) for clarity..

[kburner]

I loaded word press from my host via cpanel. I have been looking through large thread and can not located what to do next. It is not showing up in my admin tools layout boxes controller. I can access wp-admin. Just do not see on my site or zencart admin.

Can someone show me where thread is or how?

Thanks,
Kim

[cleasterwood]

Then you might want to give following the instructions I posted a shot.. This way you can use the WOZ sideboxes only..

Can you point in the direction of the WP plugin that syncs the users??

Sorry, I missed this post. Here's the link to the WP plug-in that syncs users.
zencart-and-wordpress-user-integration/

[gsdcypher]

ok first a dumb question before i attempt to read through all of the fixes, install and configure woz...
is the main reason for installing a blog inside zc to improve seo? if so, for those that have installed it and have it working, has it noticeably improved your se rankings???

thanks.

[rainthebat]

ok first a dumb question before i attempt to read through all of the fixes, install and configure woz...
is the main reason for installing a blog inside zc to improve seo? if so, for those that have installed it and have it working, has it noticeably improved your se rankings???

thanks.

That is a really good question because seo is probably the reason that many people install the blog inside zc. Zen Cart has been great for search engines with me, and I had read so much about how great blogs are because the content is being updated regularly (theoretically) and the search engines just love fresh keyword rich content.

So, overall I'm not sure that it necessarily improves anything on the seo unless it improves your ability to place content on your webpage (I find it a little easier to work with the wordpress admin then the zc admin).

It can be a quite a time investment if you want heavey customization of the look.

[gsdcypher]

thanks for the reply. that's what i was thinkin'...

cheers!

[DivaVocals]

That is a really good question because seo is probably the reason that many people install the blog inside zc. Zen Cart has been great for search engines with me, and I had read so much about how great blogs are because the content is being updated regularly (theoretically) and the search engines just love fresh keyword rich content.

So, overall I'm not sure that it necessarily improves anything on the seo unless it improves your ability to place content on your webpage (I find it a little easier to work with the wordpress admin then the zc admin).

It can be a quite a time investment if you want heavey customization of the look.

Though I opted not to screw around using the embedding feature of this mod (I am using only this mods sideboxes), the main reason for using it was to give the client the ability to easily add article style content to her site without having to pay me to help her with this task.

While EZ pages could do this, my client was having a difficult time grasping how to add content using EZ Pages, and then adding links to the EZ page in her sideboxes. I needed to give her an easier method for adding content. Plus a nice bonus is that WordPress has built in content archiving features which means my client doesn't have to keep coming to me to create content archives for her. Now she can add pages to her heart's content..

The WOZ sideboxes make the blog content easily available from ZenCart and the regularly refreshed blog content probably has the added bonus of improving her SE rankings.. Though I'm not embedding the blog in ZenCart, I used WP links along with the WOZ sideboxes to tie the two together (very nicelyI'm sure her blog has driven traffic to her website.

[bluechip]

Proper Sequence for installing WordPress 2.7 on Zencart 1.38a

I just want to be sure I have the installation sequence correct, I read the post from about 40 on and realize there are 2 methods imbedded, and stand alone. From what I gather imbedded allows google sitemap to collect posts whereas stand alone (seperate directory) presents SEO challenges.

For the purposes of this query though I just wan to be sure I install in proper order:

• Install Wordpress 2.7 in root of store
• Use existing database making sure to define unique table name extentions
• Install the WOZ addon from addons
• Install the Kiddo mod.
• Tweak from there

Is this correct?

My goal is to then add RSS feeds to the site.

Thanks ahead of time for your reply

Chip,