FYI,
Your site loads VERY slow, and though my screen resolution is set to 1152 X 864, the left and right side of your site extends OFF my screen without even a scrollbar to see the far left and far right of the layout..
ALiepinieks:
Anyway, I simply gave up in the end and stopped trying a full integration, which might sound like a lazy approach, but check out the site to see how i've integrated it first: www.qualityhomebrew.com.au.
I don't think what you're doing is lazy.. I too gave up on full integration using WOZ because it was far too aggravating for me trying to work through all these hiccups for every site I tried using this module with.
I posted this earlier in the WOZ support thread: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=693495&postcount=655. These are my down and dirty instructions I came up with for using only the sideboxes from the WOZ module. I have since tweaked this process to include removing quite a bit of the code from the wp-configure.php file which interferes with other Zen Cart mods (Google feeds and SEO mods in particular). The code I removed was not needed for the WOZ sideboxes to work standalone.. I’ve also removed any files that were only used for the WOZ blog embedding, and were also not needed for the WOZ sideboxes to work standalone.
I'm also gonna create a 'wp_posts' sidebox which displays the same content as your WordPress latest posts widget (I'll be creating this sidebox based on these two links: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts & http://www.dezinashop.com/demo/?p=4) Hira has code in the language files that implies that this sidebox exists, but it is not included in the WOZ files..
I have been giving some thought to packaging this up as an alternate add-on, or as an alternate install option in the WOZ app.. (Giving all credit to Hira of course..:clap:) It's another option that folks might wanna give a try..
Not to take anything away from Hira, but IMO a better method for blog embedding can be found here:
http://www.numinix.com/blog/2009/09/26/integrating-wordpress-into-zen-cart-1-3-8a/
As of this writing, I have taken a quick glance at the instructions and supporting files provided by Numinix. Numinix's embedding/integration method would appear to work with my WOZ sidebox only method. However, in order to make this look aesthetically pleasing, I probably should disable the display of the blog sidebar on most of the blog pages while still being able to enable/display the WP widgets elsewhere. I believe some variation of this would work:
I will be editing the following files within my blog’s theme:
- index.php
- page.php
- single.php
- archive.php
- search.phpWithin these files I’ll find and delete the following line:
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
```The sidebar will no longer display, while the WOZ sideboxes will continue to display. I could then continue to activate and use my WP widgets, but they will only display within the WOZ sideboxes.
I’ll be testing this over the weekend of course, but IMO this is a better solution for those who must embed WP content.. Best of both worlds IMO.. Again no disrespect to Hira, but I have never had good success getting the embedding portion of this module to work trouble free..
