Title: zencart categories in wordpress
Author: madabtwp
Published: <strong>October 18, 2011</strong>
Last modified: November 15, 2011

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# zencart categories in wordpress

 By [madabtwp](https://profiles.wordpress.org/christyageorge/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/zen-categories.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/zen-categories/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/zen-categories/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/zen-categories/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/zen-categories/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/zen-categories/)

## Description

This is a sidebar widget which is useful in displaying the zencart categories and
subcategories in wordpress.just drag and drop the widget in the sidebar it will 
display all the zencart categories.

For using this plugin user need to make 2 changes

 1. change the table prefix in the zen_categories.php to the prefix of their own categories
    and categoriesdescription tables
 2. specify the zencart folder name in $shop variable for me it is store so i have 
    put that user needs to change that according to his folder name in zen_categories.
    php

For Ex: Now I have used the prefix as zen_ which is commonly used. if you are using
another one please change the prefix by opening the zen_categories.php ie change
the zen_ in

    ```
    $table1 = "zen_categories"; $table2 = "zen_categories_description"; 
    ```

also change “store” according to your zencart folder

    ```
    $shop="store"; 
    ```

**Features**

displays the categories and subcategories from zencart in an easy manner

## Installation

Installation with widget:

 1. Upload the zen-categories folder to your wp-content/plugins/ folder.
 2. Activate the plugin and widget from the “plugins” page.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“zencart categories in wordpress” is open source software. The following people 
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ madabtwp ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/christyageorge/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zen-categories/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/zen-categories/), or 
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## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **15 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  Tested up to **3.2.1**
 * Tags
 * [categories](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)[display](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/display/)
   [subcategories](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/subcategories/)[widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
   [zencart](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/zencart/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/zen-categories/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ madabtwp ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/christyageorge/)

## Support

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