Wordpress On ZC [Support Thread]

[loosefast]

Because it's NOT an installation issue.. This isn't an issue at all.. THIS is how WordPress works..

The WOZ Blog sidebar only displays the contents of the WordPress sidebar. When you install WordPress and do not activate any widgets in the sidebar, WordPress by default displays a generic sidebar (which is what you see on my test site). If I were to activate widgets in Wordpress, the default WOrdPress sidebar would be replaced by the widgets I activated, and as a result the WOZ blog sidebox would display those widgets..

You don't see the recent posts in the blog sidebox because I haven't activated the recent posts widget in WordPress.. Like I said this is NOT an installation issue.. I simply haven't configured WordPress to display any widgets so the default sidebar is displayed instead.

I understand that.

What I am addressing is the "Post not found" issue that occurs when you click on a link to a POST in the WOZ WP-sidebar. You don't have any links to posts in your sidebar!

[DivaVocals]

I understand that.

What I am addressing is the "Post not found" issue that occurs when you click on a link to a POST in the WOZ WP-sidebar. You don't have any links to posts in your sidebar!

Your previous posts weren't clear on what you were asking..

I added some widgets to the sidebar.. As you can see the there are no "Post not found" errors..

[misty]

Agree totally with Diva's post at

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...postcount=1076

Tested extensively today, latest zencart with Woz 1.4 and Word Press 2.9, using PHP 5.29.
This mix does not integrate correctly with zencart.
Using Latest zencart/WordPress 2.9 with WOZ 1.301 does...

[loosefast]

Your previous posts weren't clear on what you were asking..

I added some widgets to the sidebar.. As you can see the there are no "Post not found" errors..

Sorry for my lack of clarity.

This is a test install is WOZ 1.3 and zen 1.3.8?

I think you said that you tried WOZ 1.4 and Zen 1.3.8 and was getting the blank post issue, that is, the breadcrumb links would appear, but not the post content below them?

[DivaVocals]

Agree totally with Diva's post at

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...postcount=1076

Tested extensively today, latest zencart with Woz 1.4 and Word Press 2.9, using PHP 5.29.
This mix does not integrate correctly with zencart.
Using Latest zencart/WordPress 2.9 with WOZ 1.301 does...

**nods in agreement**

Sorry for my lack of clarity.

This is a test install is WOZ 1.3 and zen 1.3.8?

I think you said that you tried WOZ 1.4 and Zen 1.3.8 and was getting the blank post issue, that is, the breadcrumb links would appear, but not the post content below them?

Yes and yes.. Also as I stated in my earlier post (http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...postcount=1076) I am using the latest version of WordPress (v2.9)

My conclusion is this:
WOZ v1.4 is buggy and simply does not work. NO ONE should be using this module unless you are ready and able to troubleshoot and correct the issues with this module yourself

MY Recommendations???:

• Roll back to v1.3 (make sure you use Kiddo's Patch and Josh's install instructions as they are MUCH clearer than the ones included with WOZ v1.3)
• Use the WOZ Sidebox Only Solution
• Use the Numinix Blog Embedding Solution
• Use That Software Guy's Embedded Blog feed Solution

Here's a thread that discusses all the various blog embedding options. http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=144224

Frankly the only thing I will probably continue to use from this module are the sideboxes. Even if v1.3 works, it falls to hell in a handbasket when I apply any SEO module to it.. I know that the key to the conflicts with WOZ and SEO modules lies in the code that is in the WOZ configuration file. (I'm just not sure what the correction to the code should be)

I will continue to monitor this thread, and try testing things here and there, but frankly IMO there are BETTER methods for embedding blogs that don't require this much hammering to work. I wish Hira could help, but sadly that doesn't seem to be a reality.

[DivaVocals]

Posting additional testing results from my test WOZ store. As before ANY blog posts dated AFTER the initial blog posts will throw the "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria." error.

So here's the full description of the behavior:
Day 1:
Admin A adds 2 posts to the blog
Admin B adds 2 posts to the blog
All posts appear in recent posts, the blog front page, the category listings

Day 2:
Admin A adds posts to the blog
Admin B adds posts to the blog
While these posts will appear in the recent posts list, they will not appear in the archives, main blog page, or in the category listings. If you click the link to any of these posts from recent posts, you will get the "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria." error.

Examples:

Posts from Day 1 (12/29/2009)

• Another post from 2nd Admin
• Test Post New Admin
• Adding Another Post
• Test New Post
• Hello world!

Posts from Day 2 (12/30/2009)

• Day 2 – 2nd Admin post
• Day 2 – 1st Admin post
• Day 2 – New post after system time change
• Day 2 – 2nd Admin Post (w/publish date modified)

Conclusion:
There are still issues with v1.3 of WOZ. If I were to change the settings in Wordpress to set the "Blog address (URL)" to match the actual blog location versus my Zen Cart folder (as is required to get the posts to embed in Zen Cart versus opening in their own window), then all the links work as they should. This leads me to conclude that this issue is ALSO related to something being incorrect with the WOZ configuration file.


This issue in particular is WHY I came up with a method to use ONLY the sideboxes from this module. So again for me, I will continue to use the WOZ sideboxes (they DO work without embedding the blog), but the embedding features of WOZ do not work consistently.

[shawna]

Thanks DivaVocals for those links you suggested on pg 107 of this thread!

[DivaVocals]

Thanks DivaVocals for those links you suggested on pg 107 of this thread!

You're very welcome..

[misty]

Diva....so to clarify you have never been able to successfully install/embed WOZ into zencart as per test site at

http://www.dezinashop.co.uk/?

which uses only woz install and sideboxes included in woz zip?

[loosefast]

If this is a stock install of WOZ 1.3 or 1.4 and Zen 1.3.8 at dezinashop.co.uk I wonder if PLACEMENT of the WP Sidebar makes a difference, i.e right sidebar as opposed to left sidebar, and having WP links to posts below pages links?

これが在庫WOZ 1.3または1.4および左のサイド・バーおよびWPを持っていることに対するすなわち右のサイド・バーがページリンクの下でポストにつながったらWPのサイド・バーの配 置は違いを生じるかどうか私が疑問に思うdezinashop.co.ukの禅1.3.8の取付けなさい、か。