Wordpress On ZC [Support Thread]

loosefast:

Then I don't see how you can say it is not an issue in this installation.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.

DivaVocals:

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!

loosefast:

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..

Agree totally with Diva's post at

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=822597&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...

DivaVocals:

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?

misty:

Agree totally with Diva's post at

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=822597&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...:smile: nods in agreement

loosefast:

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/showpost.php?p=822597&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.

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.

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

shawna:

Thanks DivaVocals for those links you suggested on pg 107 of this thread!You're very welcome..

**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?

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。

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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.

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? 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..

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?**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.. 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 ...

misty:

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..

misty:

*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)

swamyg1:

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!:unsure:

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.

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.

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

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

Thanks, Kim

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!