Wordpress On ZC [Support Thread]

[DivaVocals]

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[misty]

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?

Should not make any difference at all...install is latest zencart
with Woz 1.301 'cos woz 1.4 just does not work correctly.

[DivaVocals]

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?

Yes that is exactly what I am saying.. I NEVER had any success embedding a blog using WOZ. I no longer use the blog embedding for my two clients which is why I put up the test site to demonstrate clearly the issue that I was having..

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?

I'm not clear on what you are asking/saying here.. If you are asking if the placement of the sidebox (left side versus right) makes a difference. Then the answer is yes it appears that when the blog sidebox is placed on the right side (versus the left) ALL posts in my test store will display versus the Day 2 posts throwing the "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria." error.

I wonder if the blank posts error present in v1.4 would be affected by the sidebox placement..

Misty.. can you try this on your store and see if you get the "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria." errors that I was getting in my test store..

Conclusion: This is not acceptable behavior. Not all site designs use both left and righ columns and some do not use the right column at all.. This means there is STILL a number of issues with this mod that will cause errors. Couple that with the SEO compatibility issues, and this module is only PARTIALLY viable IMO..

[misty]

Misty.. can you try this on your store and
see if you get the
"Sorry, no posts matched your criteria." errors that I was getting in my test store..

Tested..sideboxes tried both right and left sides...no problems
encountered...

The only time had problems with woz was when installing WordPress into
different directory to zencart, so since then
always use following method...

Install zencart first, with own seperate database...TEST...
then install
Wordpress into same root/directory as zencart, uploading all WP files.

Temporarily RENAME ZENCART INDEX.PHP file FIRST
or it will be overwritten by wordpress index.php file.

WordPress has seperate database to zencart...
Get wordpress working on its own, testing admin functions/posting functions...

Rename WordPress index.php file and reinstate zencart index.php

Then add WOZ 1.301...following Hira's instructions..

Suggestion.. always have ZenCart using Classic Template when installing
wordpress/woz ...

[DivaVocals]

Tested..sideboxes tried both right and left sides...no problems
encountered...

If you take a look at my test store, you can see that (oddly) everything is working as it should once I moved the sidebox to the right side..

The only time had problems with woz was when installing WordPress into
different directory to zencart, so since then
always use following method...

Install zencart first, with own seperate database...TEST...
then install
Wordpress into same root/directory as zencart, uploading all WP files.

Temporarily RENAME ZENCART INDEX.PHP file FIRST
or it will be overwritten by wordpress index.php file.

WordPress has seperate database to zencart...
Get wordpress working on its own, testing admin functions/posting functions...

Rename WordPress index.php file and reinstate zencart index.php

Then add WOZ 1.301...following Hira's instructions..

Suggestion.. always have ZenCart using Classic Template when installing
wordpress/woz ...

In all of my previous testing it never mattered whether WordPress was installed in it's own directory or a seperate directory, had it's own database or shared a database, the result was ALWAYS the same as I posted in my previous posts.. (which is why for this round of testing I didn't try any of these alternate installs..)

I'll try what you suggest later today on this test store, and post my results here..

However, I'm also gonna test the Numinix embedding this weekend too to compare.. (which IMO seems like a better less troublesome solution) All this head banging to get THIS module to work may be for nothing IMO. There are still compatibility issues with this module and other modules (SEO, and Google Feeder modules come to mind)

[chebert9]

I've seen this question asked before but I can't seem to get pretty permalinks to work. When I change my blog address to "whateverblogname.com/blog" and use the following in .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^blog/ index\.php?main_page=wordpress&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

it works but I'm not able to access my admin anymore.

I just looking to get permlinks working for SEO, does anyone know how?

swamyg1, THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

I was starting to doubt that I would be able to use pemalinks with WOZ, but then I came across your post. I had to change my entry a little bit. I don't have "blog" as part of my URL, so this is what I used:

RewriteRule . index\.php?main_page=wordpress&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Thanks again for taking the time to post!

[chebert9]

swamyg1, THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

I was starting to doubt that I would be able to use pemalinks with WOZ, but then I came across your post. I had to change my entry a little bit. I don't have "blog" as part of my URL, so this is what I used:

RewriteRule . index\.php?main_page=wordpress&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Thanks again for taking the time to post!

OK, had to make one more change...

HACK ALERT!

WordPress kept overwriting my .htaccess file regardless of what write permissions I set. So I had to go into the blog/wp-includes/rewrite.php file and comment out a couple of lines. Here they are:

	
	} else {
			//$rules .= "RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f\n" .
			//	"RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d\n" .
				//"RewriteRule . {$home_root}{$this->index} [L]\n";
		}

This prevented Wordpress from printing out the incorrect ReWriteRule to my .htaccess file. Not pretty, but it worked.

[kburner]

I am using Zencart 1.3.8a and trying to get mod working for WordPress.

I am ok with sideboxes linking to my Wordpress site. As long as I can link from WordPress back to my site.

I am following WordPress 1.4 hira.

*I installed WordPress via my host control panel to zen-cart root where admin and includes reside. WP 2.9

*Uploaded all WP_ROOT files to WordPress root directory on server.

*Changed settings in WordPress Admin

*Looked at another post for ABSPATH to work

*Uploaded ZC_ROOT files to Zencart root.

*I am having problems with includes/templates/MYTEMP/common/html_header.php

When I insert code into end of file before </head> my site main page has WordPress on it and messes up page. I can see part of Wordpress behind site.

<!-- for woz BOF -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' ); ?>
<?php woz_wp_head(); ?>
<!-- for woz EOF -->
</head>

Then when I go to http://www.burnerbooks.com/index.php...page=wordpress I just get home page without main column.

site is www.burnerbooks.com
I see WordPress in http://www.burnerbooks.com/blog/
WordPress 2.9

Thanks, Kim

[cslakans]

I'm about to attempt integrating the Wordpress Mod with Zencart. Have read through many of these posts and saw that some moderators said some of the install guides people used were out of date and to use the latest install guide. But there was no link to it. Can someone provide me a link to the latest install guide please?

Also, saw some posts about Kiddo's fixes or mod to install after WordPress? Where could I find information about his fixes? Is it just in this forum that I missed? And, as of today, maybe those fixes our in the latest WordPress Mod?!?

Thanks in advance!

[DivaVocals]

Suggest you read back a few pages in this support thread.. Ver 1.4 doesn't work. End of story.. Read back a few posts lots of details posted..

I am using Zencart 1.3.8a and trying to get mod working for WordPress.

I am ok with sideboxes linking to my Wordpress site. As long as I can link from WordPress back to my site.

I am following WordPress 1.4 hira.

*I installed WordPress via my host control panel to zen-cart root where admin and includes reside. WP 2.9

*Uploaded all WP_ROOT files to WordPress root directory on server.

*Changed settings in WordPress Admin

*Looked at another post for ABSPATH to work

*Uploaded ZC_ROOT files to Zencart root.

*I am having problems with includes/templates/MYTEMP/common/html_header.php

When I insert code into end of file before </head> my site main page has WordPress on it and messes up page. I can see part of Wordpress behind site.

<!-- for woz BOF -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' ); ?>
<?php woz_wp_head(); ?>
<!-- for woz EOF -->
</head>

Then when I go to http://www.burnerbooks.com/index.php...page=wordpress I just get home page without main column.

site is www.burnerbooks.com
I see WordPress in http://www.burnerbooks.com/blog/
WordPress 2.9

Thanks, Kim