Stupid Questions :)

Perhaps a bit of a unique position, perhaps not, but we are the manufacturers of a software product that use nop for our online shop. As such, we have to have a bit more than just an online shop, so we also have a general website, and support forums.

For reference:

Company/product website: www.LASRapp.com (Using an Azure Template, please note the various sub-pages)
Our store: www.LASRapp.com/store
Our forums: www.LASRapp.com/forum (Using Simplemachines)

Yup, all under the same domain, but as you can see, not integrated very well. No consistent look and feel, much less UI. Lately, simplemachines has been giving us headaches with deleting its own config file randomly (sometimes once a week, sometimes three times a day). So we are obviously looking to replace that, and the obvious choice are the forums in Nop.

Whilst pondering this decision, I would also like to integrate the main website (www.LASRapp.com) under nop as well. Basically creating a bunch of new pages with their own style, modifying the overall theme quite a bit, etc, to bring it all "under one house" as it were.

Obviously alot of style changes could be made with a template (would probably just buy one), and I've figured out the basics of how to create new pages, but am also considering the issues that would arise when we update Nop in the future. Is there a plugin, or some easier/more robust way of brining out main website under the Nop house that I am missing? Any suggestions?

I would be looking at re-writing all the pages for the "non sales stuff" anyway, if that makes any difference.

You may want to build your own theme.
Following URL of nop documentations may be helpful for you


Designer's Guide
Creating / Writing your own theme (using current / default theme)

I figured that would be the answer, but best to ask before barking up the wrong tree. New theme is done (for now, have some more changes planned for the future)

So now I found a plugin that I like, purchased it, blah blah: HERE

Followed the instructions exactly, didn't work.
Redid it. Didn't work.
Redid it again. Still didn't work.
etc, etc
And as it stands now, I can't get that plugin, or the "core" plugin (that the documentation says you need) to show up at all. On the store admin side.

What I'm doing:
Unzipping folder
Verifying that folder and all sub-folders are unzipped
Grabbing the two folders for the 3.5 version (yes, that is what version of NOP we are using)
Copying to (store)/Plugins
Verifying that file transfer was successful (using filezilla, if it matters)
Go to store/admin/configuration/plugins
Clicking on "reload list of plugins"
And... nothing. It is not showing up in the list at all.

I've googled and banged my head against the wall. Can't get it to show up. I've double double checked that I'm doing it right, as near as I understand it. I've also cleared the cache, deleted the index.cshtml in \Plugins\bin (the only thing in there), then replaced it when that didn't do anything. I've clicked on "Clear Cache" on the admin side, redid everything... and getting nowhere.

So, I am either a special snowflake, am completely misunderstanding the instructions, or missing something really obvious. Anyone have a thought?

wallace11bravo wrote:

Hi,

We think you are missing something really small. We suggest you to raise a ticket in our ticketing system. Our support staff will be kindly help you to find what you missed.

Did so, and thank you for the prompt follow up.

I don't think it is your plugins specifically, as I have another one from a different publisher now that I can't get to show up either. So it is either me, or our specific store.

If anyone has any thoughts, feel free to share.

Figured it out, and as I suspected the answer is "I'm dumb"