{"id":1545,"date":"2022-11-27T14:03:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T19:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2022-11-27T14:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T19:04:03","slug":"zen-cart-1-5-8-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/zen-cart-1-5-8-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen Cart 1.5.8 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tis here – tis released into the wild.<\/p>\n

Upgrade or no? As usual for me I won’t be upgrading to 1.5.8 anytime soon. 1.5.7 d came out in Feb of this year. It’s stable. Why should you upgrade? If you are on a server that requires anything below PHP version 7., you’re fine. Version 1.5.8 settles in at max 8.3. So if your hosting moves to dump below 8, you will have to.<\/p>\n

PHP version changes are driving updates\/upgrades in most programs. But most hosting companies don’t dare restrict the level of PHP at the highest – they would lose customers.<\/p>\n

So is there anything to recommend 1.5.8? About us page is included. Code fixes and improved checkout (looks like my recommendations were incorporated. I’ve removed the template pages from my Readytogo template), a Brands page and other minor changes that you can read here: https:\/\/docs.zen-cart.com\/release\/whatsnew_1.5.8.html<\/a><\/p>\n

One irritation, the ability to have sideboxes in the header has been removed. Anyone who uses the search in the header? It’s gone. Sorry, guys. I wasn’t involved in this version recently and wasn’t aware. I would have fought against this change. Weirdly enough, this change is minor – all the plumbing is still there. It just doesn’t display the header boxes.<\/p>\n

I do have my Zen Cart template ready for 1.5.8 – just have to add the header boxes in. I may create a mod for this – or wait for someone else to do it.<\/p>\n

The biggest problem is the plugins as usual. The ones that are being maintained (and there are few) may well be PHP 8 compatible. Too many of the old plugins won’t be.<\/p>\n

I was able to remove a number of template pages, still have no core changes. and it all works fine. I have yet to test it on a PHP 8 installation. I can’t do that yet on my server but if someone is determined to go to Zen Cart version 1.5.8, contact me and I’ll give you a discount to let me play.<\/p>\n

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Author: Delia Wilson Lunsford, Founder & CEO, WizTech, Inc. <\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tis here – tis released into the wild. Upgrade or no? As usual for me I won’t be upgrading to 1.5.8 anytime soon. 1.5.7 d came out in Feb of this year. It’s stable. Why should you upgrade? If you are on a server that requires anything below PHP version 7., you’re fine. Version 1.5.8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zen-cart","category-zen-cart-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}