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Kaizen04 wrote:Alright well today just isn't my day. Been trying to get the storebuilder to work, then finally went to wordpress and got the plugin. I did everything you mentioned, yet when I post the code nothing shows up. Here is my test post (the site is a test site): http://burningtoday.com/archives/89I'm a little lost on the shortcodes part. You say to put [ztore] in a post, and that's it? Publish? Or do you put in everything specifically. I mean the settings portion takes care of all of that. Also, do you need to edit any of the storebuilder files, or just make sure they're there? This stuff is driving me nuts today since I've been working all day trying to somehow modify the original storebuilder files to include links, then I finally decided to go with wordpress to make it easier only to find out it's not working for me either.  Thanks for the help. *edit* So yeah I realized I had my files in the zstorehelper folder instead of the zstore folder. I guess I forgot there was another folder in there. Geez I'm an idiot. Well least today wasn't a loss then.  Glad to see you got it working.
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LisaMarieArt wrote:chitchatshirts wrote:fotoblography wrote:Hey I just had a question. Does this plugin sometimes give refferals to the author of the plugin if a user clicks on the product on my blog and buys the product? No - you host it - you get everything if you have added your rf id in the right place. There can be many reasons why you did not get the referral. If you search the forum you find many threads about this. As chichat said, there are many reasons why you don't get the referral: The person has cookies disabled. You won't get a referral if a cookie isn't saved to their computer. They are copying and pasting the links and removing the referral part or changing it to their own. They clicked someone elses referral link before purchasing. Thats just a few reasons. cool thanks for explaining! It has been working fine since my post a couple weeks ago so I guess my friend must have clicked another referral link after leaving my blog. Anyways thanks for this plugin its great!
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Alright so I have a wordpress site up with the plugin working, but I have a few questions:
How can I display multiple stores on one page? If I had a t shirt page I would like to have a ton of different t shirts from a bunch of stores. I experimented with this last night by having two different [zstore] short codes. The first one being just [zstore] and one underneath it saying [zstore contributorhandle="storename"] with a "storename" obviously being the store I want.
Second, I was able to do this using multiple products on one page. I had the same setup as shown above except the second short code said [zstore producttype="cards"]. So on one page I had t shirts and cards, only thing I didn't like was that there was a noticeable gap between the shirts and cards. It also had the "date created, sort by" and number of pages directly above each "set" of products. Is there a way to get rid of this so it flows better?
Thanks.
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I am really baffled with this. I just set up a wordpress blog on my site today with the intent to feature my zazzle items. I thought I installed everything correctly, but I am only getting one long list of items, not a grid. To see what I mean, go here: http://eyebalm.com/art/storeWhat am I doing wrong?
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You need to make the width of your site bigger. Least the area that contains the products, that's why they're being shown as a list. Go into the editor (under appearance tab) and find the CSS file and find the width parameters and change it. Or you could also change the grid width through the settings of the zstore helper under "Settings>ztore helper". The latter might be easier than editing the CSS file, especially if you're not familiar with CSS.
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How wide does it need to be? Is there a minimum?
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Well minimum is whatever you need to show one product. So the width of one grid. Off the top of my head I'd say maybe 200 or so, that's for showing products "in line" like a list. The default is 700, which is enough to show 3 products across. Just play around with it and you'll see how it works.
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I don't think it is the width of my column that is the problem. I tried enlarging it to about 800px, and I still got the single row display. I suspect it is something else, which I really don't want to poke around under a php hood for.
Considering that there doesn't seem to be a way to really customize this, i.e., the ability to set up separate pages and sub-pages for one's own galleries and sub-galleries, I'm going to go ahead and and do this manually. I have a grid template set up for wordpress, so all I need to do is go to my own zazzle galleries, get the product link info from zazzle, and plop it in my own grid cells, and create customized pages and sub-pages in wordpress. Infinitely less stressful (no-brainer cut and paste vs. trying to scour forums for solutions and potentially messing up something in code), infinitely more customizable.
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It's not the width, it's something else. I don't know what, because I don't go messing with the code.
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For whatever reason, the CSS for ZSB is not being recognized. It in the head so it knows it's there but none of the styles are being applied.
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It might be your theme...or another plugin could be buggering things up a bit, or you might have 'Grid Cell Spacing" too high between each item (In Zstore Helper Settings), forcing each product to flow beneath each other. I'd start by disabling plugins one at a time, starting with Google Analytics first if you have it. I'd also try a one column instead of two column theme. If you have other themes and I highly recommend 2010 or twentyten themes, you might try activating another theme, see if the grid shows up there.
I also see you have a theme switcher, that might be conflicting. But I'd start with just trying a 1 column, disabling some plugins, checking the Grid Cell Spacing in Zstore Helper settings....
Good Luck
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Are you messing with the width of the wordpress theme, or the width of the grid through the zstore helper settings? If the former, are you sure you're adjusting the width of the correct section? I know I keep bringing up the width, but honestly that seems like it's the problem. Mine works perfectly fine. If it's too small it'll automatically fill it in however it can. I'd adjust the settings first and make sure you're actually editing what needs to be edited. Maybe try a default wordpress theme just to see if it's working properly. Anyways if all else fails, then yeah you could do it manually. I thought about doing that myself, but that would take forever. If it's just your store then have at it. Good luck.
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I thank you all for your suggestions, but I have gone ahead and done it manually. It was quite quick to cut and paste and edit, and it works like a charm. It's all done now. And I can feature different products on different pages, unlike what the zazzle store builder helper seems to do.
As I add more products, I'll have grid templates set up to just plop in the zazzle product code. It's very easy to do.
Yes, I adjusted the width of the correct section. I use a template creation program to use with my own graphic headers, so I'm sure it knows what it's adjusting. I love the graphic-creation and artistic part of designing wordpress sites but hate the difficult areas of coding, which is why I use a program that does it. Maybe there's something in the code the program generates that conflicts with this script..I don't know. I've not had any problem with any other widgets or plugins, and I have several sites that utilize wordpress.
I'm not going to worry about it anymore, however, I'm satisfied with my results doing it manually and customizing it even more that way.
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Is there any way to change the distance between the products (vertically)? I forget the name of that, but I figure I'm going to change that through the zstore settings. I also have another question, I'm trying to include other products. If say they only have 3 products, and I add ONE other product how can I get it so that it looks flush across rather than going underneath? For example: [zstore producttype="product" showhowmany="3"] [zstore producttype="product" showhowmany="1"] It'll show up like this: Quote:Product 1 | Product 2| Product 3|
Product 4| I need it to go across like this Quote:Product 1 | Product 2| Product 3| Product 4| Thoughts?
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Kaizen04 wrote:Is there any way to change the distance between the products (vertically)? I forget the name of that, but I figure I'm going to change that through the zstore settings.
You need to add margin to the bottom of .gridCell in the zstore CSS. Kaizen04 wrote:I also have another question, I'm trying to include other products. If say they only have 3 products, and I add ONE other product how can I get it so that it looks flush across rather than going underneath? For example: [zstore producttype="product" showhowmany="3"] [zstore producttype="product" showhowmany="1"] It'll show up like this: Quote:Product 1 | Product 2| Product 3|
Product 4| I need it to go across like this Quote:Product 1 | Product 2| Product 3| Product 4| Thoughts? The only way I can think of is to put each call to zstore in its own container, float them next to each other and use CSS to sort out the margins etc.
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LisaMarieArt wrote:
The only way I can think of is to put each call to zstore in its own container, float them next to each other and use CSS to sort out the margins etc.
Thanks, yeah it was Margins I couldn't remember that. I think that can take care both of my issues. I could have them in their own containers but I think that's much more work for little return. Thanks though!
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Alright another question, I know a lot of stuff is dependent on the zstore files and not the plugin but hopefully this can be resolved. If I wanted to hand pick products, or say have one page display 20 products (out of 40) and display the other 20 on another page. How would I do this? If I do:
[zstore producttype="235" showhowmany="20"]
Second page:
[zstore producttype="235" showhowmany="20"]
It displays the first 20 products each time. It would be nice if there was a way to at least randomize this, but even better if I could specify which products show up. I know you can have the "productlineid" but some products aren't like that. Thoughts?
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Kaizen04 wrote:Alright another question, I know a lot of stuff is dependent on the zstore files and not the plugin but hopefully this can be resolved. If I wanted to hand pick products, or say have one page display 20 products (out of 40) and display the other 20 on another page. How would I do this? If I do:
[zstore producttype="235" showhowmany="20"]
Second page:
[zstore producttype="235" showhowmany="20"]
It displays the first 20 products each time. It would be nice if there was a way to at least randomize this, but even better if I could specify which products show up. I know you can have the "productlineid" but some products aren't like that. Thoughts?
Well the way I do it is set showpagination to true. It doesn't go to another wordpress page, but it does allow you to page through however many pages of 20 products there are. As for putting them on 2 wordpress press pages... I don't know if it can be done. Randomizing can't be done as the feed used to populate zstore only has popular and newly created as options. Popular can work as a randomization but only if you sell enough products daily to make it change on regular basis. The only way to specify which products you want to show is give those products a unique tag and use the keyword parameter. Can't think of any other way as we're limited by the options available. Handpicking is something which can really only be done the old fashion way of copying and pasting the HTML from 'link' on each product page.
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Thanks, I figured as much but wanted to ask in case I was wrong. I don't have "pagination" enabled on my site. I have "disabled" a lot of the default settings to make it look cleaner with my site. All my questions are really just nitpicking and wanting more customization options.
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After a couple months of putting this problem aside, I decided to take a look at it again. To make a long story short, I did a lot of troubleshooting, and discovered the zstore-helper folder that I downloaded from that site and then re-uploaded to my own had its permissions set to 700, which meant all the other files like the style sheets weren't showing up. I changed it to 755, and it works now. Had nothing to do with my column being too narrow, although I did opt to go for a single column design anyway. My Store
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