Hi, new to WordPress and lots of questions

  • rikas

    (@rikas)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I am new to both, WordPress and this forum. Since I am not sure where to post this, I choose “miscellaneous” – if I was wrong, I apologize, feel free to move to a more appropriate place!

    I am currently investigating for a customers solution:

    1. selling semi-products (metal)
    2. some explanations and technical data for products shall be provided
    3. products are sold by material type, dimensions and weight
    4. payment through PayPal and MasterCard
    5. invoice printing (PDF)
    6. import / export of products, pricing
    7. export of orders
    8. product selection in shop area should be done in a “spreadsheet like” maner: ItemNbr(= materal type), length, width, height, number of items. As I could see, WooCommerce provides this, but each item is listed on its own and quite opaque for my customers clients

    I was told to take a look at WordPress and WooCommerce – which I installed last week on my internal server (therefor no link to any site!)

    All but the last point (product selection in a “spreadsheet like” maner) of my list above seems to be possible with WordPress.

    Now my questions:

    • is there / could anybody give me a pointer to a plugin, that provides “spreadsheet-like” shopping form or could act as a base for customization?
      I would not fear writing or extending a plugin (using PHP almost 20 years now), but I would prefer to concentrate on the final solution.
    • as part of my investigation, I tried the JSON-API with very little success: I can’t acces the REST API (see below)
    • Any advice on best practice or import / export?

    BTW: I hardly ever could get a “CMS” running and do almost everything, I wanted to do in such a short time! (at a quite basic level of course!)

    Regards
    Richard

    —-

    Problem to access REST API:

    WordPress: 4.5.3
    Installed plugins:
    – “WP REST API”
    – “WP REST API (V2) Woocommerce endpoints”
    – “WooCommerce” + “Storefront”

    PHP: 5.6.24
    Host System: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

    <br />
curl http://fixwp2.rfk.priv/xmlrpc.php?rsd</p>
<p><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rsd version="1.0" xmlns="http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/rsd"><br />
  <service><br />
    <engineName>WordPress</engineName><br />
    <engineLink>https://wordpress.org/</engineLink><br />
    <homePageLink>http://fixwp2.rfk.priv</homePageLink><br />
    <apis><br />
      <api name="WordPress" blogID="1" preferred="true" apiLink="http://fixwp2.rfk.priv/xmlrpc.php" /><br />
      <api name="Movable Type" blogID="1" preferred="false" apiLink="http://fixwp2.rfk.priv/xmlrpc.php" /><br />
      <api name="MetaWeblog" blogID="1" preferred="false" apiLink="http://fixwp2.rfk.priv/xmlrpc.php" /><br />
      <api name="Blogger" blogID="1" preferred="false" apiLink="http://fixwp2.rfk.priv/xmlrpc.php" /><br />
      	<api name="WP-API" blogID="1" preferred="false" apiLink="http://fixwp2.rfk.priv/wp-json/" /><br />
	    </apis><br />
  </service><br />
</rsd><br />

    and this one:

    <br />
root@fixwp2:WP-KITS$ curl -I http://fixwp2.rfk.priv<br />
HTTP/1.1 200 OK<br />
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 14:03:17 GMT<br />
Server: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)<br />
Link: <http://fixwp2.rfk.priv/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"<br />
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8<br />

    … which seems fine to me, but:

    <br />
root@fixmwp2:WRK$ curl http://fixwp2.rfk.priv/wp-json/<br />
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"><br />
<html><head><br />
<title>404 Not Found</title><br />
</head><body><br />
<h1>Not Found</h1><br />
<p>The requested URL /wp-json/ was not found on this server.</p><br />
<hr><br />
<address>Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at fixwp2.rfk.priv Port 80</address><br />
</body></html><br />

    same for this:

    <br />
root@fixmwp2:WRK$ curl http://fixwp2.rfk.priv/wp-json/wp/v2/posts<br />
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"><br />
<html><head><br />
<title>404 Not Found</title><br />
</head><body><br />
<h1>Not Found</h1><br />
<p>The requested URL /wp-json/wp/v2/posts was not found on this server.</p><br />
<hr><br />
<address>Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at fixwp2.rfk.priv Port 80</address><br />
</body></html></p>
<p>

    gives me some headache! What am I missing here?

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