{"id":2618,"date":"2020-07-12T08:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T12:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2020-07-12T08:50:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T12:50:17","slug":"zen-cart-documentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/12\/zen-cart-documentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen Cart Documentation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Zen Cart documentation site was refreshed as part of the 1.5.7 development process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The big changes are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Migration from phpBB syntax to Markdown.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/zencart\/documentation\" target=\"_blank\">Documentation now stored in Github<\/a> for easier collaboration.   Everyone is welcome to join the fun &#8211; see <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/zencart\/documentation\/blob\/master\/CONTRIBUTING.md\" target=\"_blank\">Contributing to Zen Cart Documentation<\/a> to get started. <\/li><li>Documentation structure and presentation managed by the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gohugo.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hugo<\/a> static site generator, using the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/google\/docsy\" target=\"_blank\">Docsy<\/a> template.  The site is continuously deployed from Github by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netlify.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Netlify<\/a> platform. <\/li><li>Deprecation of old Wiki documentation.<\/li><li>Deprecation of old content from the Tutorials link on the Zen Cart forum.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> There are sub-sites for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.zen-cart.com\/user\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zen Cart storeowner documentation<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.zen-cart.com\/dev\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zen Cart developer documentation<\/a>.  The storeowner documentation is linked from the Admin Page (for on-screen help) in Zen Cart 1.5.7. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the old help looked like: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/old_help.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/old_help.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/old_help-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s the new.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/new_help.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/new_help.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/new_help-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zen Cart documentation site was refreshed as part of the 1.5.7 development process. The big changes are: Migration from phpBB syntax to Markdown. Documentation now stored in Github for easier collaboration. Everyone is welcome to join the fun &#8211; see Contributing to Zen Cart Documentation to get started. Documentation structure and presentation managed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/12\/zen-cart-documentation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zen Cart Documentation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-that-software-guy","category-zen-cart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}