Numinix Blog Embedding Issues/Questions

Hello,

followed all instructions for Numinix Integrating WordPress into Zen Cart 1.3.8x to 1.3.9x. Everything is ok except appearamce of blog in zencart and that I cannot go to the administration since when I enter the admin url I get stack on the blog homepage.

http://www.naturalfinesse.com/blog

The categories on the left are shifted towards the left and the header search part is somewhat displaced. Also I cannot go to my dashboard.

Any clues?

Thanks

Glad to see you took my suggestion to create a new thread!! :clap:

I can't provide any specific help, but the issue you are having has everything to do with your blog stylesheet being applied to your Zen Cart store. You need to figure out which styles in the blogs stylesheet are the cause.

That said IMHO, the EASIEST way to resolve this is to make the blogs stylesheet as generic as possible. You can start doing this by removing any styles that are already managed by the Zen Cart stylesheet. (things like body, li, ul, p, etc) What should be left in the blog stylesheet are only those styles which are specific to the blog. (sidebar styles, etc)

Does this makes sense???

Let me modify what I said in part.. (see red italicized text below)

DivaVocals:

Glad to see you took my suggestion to create a new thread!! :clap:

I can't provide any specific help, but the issue you are having has everything to do with your blog stylesheet being applied to your Zen Cart store when you navigate to the embedded blog page. You need to figure out which styles in the blog's stylesheet are the cause.

That said IMHO, the EASIEST way to resolve this is to create a generic blog template. This way the blog's stylesheet will have MINIMAL impact on Zen Cart. The WordPress Template Generator is a great tool for doing this work for you.. Using this tool you can create a very PLAIN WordPress template. Once you have your plain/generic template, you should the edit the blog stylesheet and remove any styles that are already managed by the Zen Cart stylesheet. (things like body, li, ul, p, etc) What should be left in the blog stylesheet are only those styles which are specific to the blog elements. (sidebar styles, etc).* All shared elements will use the styles applied from the Zen Cart stylesheet.
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Does this makes sense???

DivaVocals:

Let me modify what I said in part.. (see red italicized text below)

I do understand what you are saying but unfortunately have no clue with css so cant do much on my own. Thanks :blink:

Yiannis:

I do understand what you are saying but unfortunately have no clue with css so cant do much on my own. Thanks :blink:There is a fair amount of work that needs to be done so that the blog stylesheet does not interfere with the store and vice versa. If you are not familiar enough with CSS to make these changes on your own you may want to consider hiring someone to help you with this work. Otherwise, if you want to be a DIYer then you will need to roll up your sleeves and try giving what I suggested a whirl :smile:..

How do I desable Magic Seo URLs from the whole wordpress blog?

I disabled magic seo urls and still i cannot access my wordpress admin...

any clues?

Yiannis:

I disabled magic seo urls and still i cannot access my wordpress admin...

any clues?Magic SEO is a Zen Cart mod, and would/should have NO effect on your ability to access the blog. If you are unable to access the WP admin, it is likely that you missed the step in the Numinix setup for configuring the blog settings. (It's the step in which requires you to log into the WP admin and enter in the URLS for the blog and the home page.) If you configure this incorrectly this could cause issues.. Re-review your install..

Does anybody know of an integrated login solution that will work with the Numinix solution? I would like to install a WP blog on an existing ZC site, but would prefer current users to not have to log in twice. Barring that, I would prefer that accounts are automatically created with the same credentials.

Thanks in advance.

applynx:

Does anybody know of an integrated login solution that will work with the Numinix solution? I would like to install a WP blog on an existing ZC site, but would prefer current users to not have to log in twice. Barring that, I would prefer that accounts are automatically created with the same credentials.

Thanks in advance.There is no Zen Cart plugin which provides this kind of functionality. There is an old WP plugin, but it relies on WOZ to work.. I'm sure it could be adapted to work with the Numinix solution, but I'm afraid you would have to inquire over on the WP forums about this if you need more details. (don't want this thread shut down discussing WP specific support issues..)

To those of you looking for a sidebox solution that works with Numinix, install the blank sideboxes mod and add the wordpress loop to the end of includes/modules/sideboxes/blank_sidebox.php (alternatively: includes/modules/sideboxes/MY_TEMPLATE/blank_sidebox.php). The code will look like this:

<?php
  $show_blank_sidebox = true;

  if ($show_blank_sidebox == true) {
      require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_blank_sidebox.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'sideboxes'). '/tpl_blank_sidebox.php');
      $title =  BOX_HEADING_BLANK_SIDEBOX;
      $title_link = false;
      require($template->get_template_dir($column_box_default, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'common') . '/' . $column_box_default);
 }
?>
<?php define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('/MY_ABSOLUTE_PATH/blog/wp-load.php');
query_posts('showposts=5');
?>

<?php while (have_posts()): the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" style=""><?php the_title(); ?></a><br>
<?php endwhile; ?>

I left an empty style tag in there, because I found that I needed to do some selective styling to get this to blend with my other sideboxes. I am sure that there are more elegant solutions, but this one works.

joeyrocket:

To those of you looking for a sidebox solution that works with Numinix, install the blank sideboxes mod and add the wordpress loop to the end of includes/modules/sideboxes/blank_sidebox.php (alternatively: includes/modules/sideboxes/MY_TEMPLATE/blank_sidebox.php). The code will look like this:

<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" style=""><?php the_title(); ?></a><br>

I'll be saving his for future reference :cool:
thanks!

Once I had the Wordpress installation embedded (and the default 2011 template seems to work best), I removed all the content from style.css (leaving the empty file) and removed all mentions of body in blog.css, letting the Zencart stylesheet handle the body rules. Worked for me.

I am not sure if this is for me. I am looking for a solution to have the flexibility of the wordpress template look and feel and the power of zencart for the ecommerce part. If I understand right, this mod does the opposite? Adding blog power into a zencart page?

Is there a solution the other way around? Wordpress site with a shopping portion?

I looked around and have found DivaVocals very active looking for something like this in Joomla and WordPress forums.

@DivaVocals how do you now solve this?

There are several 'carts' that are Wordpress plugins. I looked at a few and wasn't impressed.

That is exactly my beef. And I know Zen Cart pretty well but find creating templates and changing looks is some what limited. But that is topic for another day or thread.

Hi i wonder if someone can help me, i have followed all the steps and found it fine and styling is not an issue either, however as i understand the whole install should be embeeded within the ZC header and footers, when i click on a blog page link it takes me to the blog itself outside of the ZC headers and footers, is this something that is supposed to happen or does someone have a suggestion of what is wrong? thanks x

mydanilo:

I am not sure if this is for me. I am looking for a solution to have the flexibility of the wordpress template look and feel and the power of zencart for the ecommerce part. If I understand right, this mod does the opposite? Adding blog power into a zencart page?

Is there a solution the other way around? Wordpress site with a shopping portion?

I looked around and have found DivaVocals very active looking for something like this in Joomla and WordPress forums.

@DivaVocals how do you now solve this?
I only actively sought after a Joomla solution on the Joomla forums.. Have not had active discussions on the WordPress forums on this..

I suggest taking a look at some of the articles on the web and on the WordPress site which talk about pulling in WordPress content into a non WordPress sites.. I have been experimenting with using these methods to wrap WordPress' look and feel around Zen Cart..

How would I go about using the code above to add widgets? I can get the widgets into the sidebar, but they sit on top of blank_box on the sidebar and I can't style them, even if I wrap them in a new div, and do i need to add anything to the tpl_blank_sidebox?

Hi

Out of curiosity. Has anyone tried using the Numinix Wordpress solution with ZenCart 1.5?

cheers

mark