Wordpress On ZC [Support Thread]

**DivaVocals** · 26 Mar 2010, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by 350125

I'm working on a site that's kind of a blog with a shop attached, rather than the other way around. The site owner wants the index page to be the blog itself, and the shop secondary.

Right now I have Zen Cart installed in the main directory and Wordpress installed in /blog. Everything's working fine, but I can't figure out a good way of making the blog the main page. A 301 redirect on index.php makes every page on the site redirect in an infinite loop. Is there a file that's a template for the blog, that I could just copy to the index?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

Depends on what the owner means by " kind of a blog with a shop attached"

Is it important for the blog content to be incorporated (embeded) into the store? OR could the blog be styled like but have a separate URL than the store/site?
ie:
http://www.mysite.com (store/site)
http://www.mysite.com/blog (Blog)
Are you interested in Zen Cart as the e-commerce solution because you've compared it to the WP e-commerce plugins?

There are a TON of options to achieve what you want, and it depends on what you want as an outcome. For example you can do any of the following:

ZenCart as your main site/store with a seperate blog linked to your site via WordPress content sideboxes (Zen Cart sideboxes which pull in WordPress post content/links)
ZenCart as your main site/store with WordPress content integrated (embedded).
WordPress as you main site with one of the WordPress e-commerce plugins for your store. (there are pretty decent ones)