Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Hi Jon,

I assume you received it as you have responded to my ticket, I'll post the info in your ticking system as some of it could be sensitive.

Thanks again

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Hi Jon,

Just a little reminder to please check the ticket.

Thanks

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Does xCMS work with Dynamic Search-Engine-Friendly URLs DSEFU mod, so that all the links are html ?

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Anyone heard from WebsiteCM. Sent in some support tickets on 10/25 ?

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

SEO friendly links for xCMS is only available via CDSEO, otherwise it will use dynamic php urls.

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

xCMS is now 4.5 compatible:
http://www.websitecm.com/x-cart-mods/x-cart-blog-cms.html

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Was there an update to the files or is the current version work as is?

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

There's an update as file edits were needed to account for various changes most namely removing the "product" field from the xcart_products table.

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Hi Jon, I just made xCMS Facebook friendly on my site. Please look over this post when you have time and see if there is anything you'd like to modify for the xCMS section.

http://forum.x-cart.com/showpost.php?p=355997&postcount=1

Thanks!

Paul

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Jon, still one of the best CMS mods out there, but needs upgrading:
Will you add voting features for entries?
Will you add "Rich Google Results"?
That would be awesome (a must have)

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

We have plans to do an upgrade but have yet to be able to schedule it. The upgrade will include google author compatibility and rich google snippets. I will consider adding the voting for entries feature but may opt to do facebook comment integration instead.

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

I want to integrate a blog into my site.
Is xCMS *THE* solution?
Are there alternatives?

Anyone USING xCMS and care to share your URL with me via PM? Not thrilled google snippets aren't being tagged.

Jon, I sent you a pre-sales ticket. Please let me know if you are going to continue to sell and support x-cart mods.

Thanks,

Jeremy

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Yes will be continuing to sell and support x-cart mods for XC4. I'll be making an official announcement on the forums soon.

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Jeremy, I have been using it for several years and do like it.

My only comment is now we have upgraded to 4.5.5 and are using a custom template (reBOOT). Love the template, but do not like how I have had to integrate it to make it work with the template. It is one of those projects that is going to take me some time to adjust.

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Jeremy I updated your ticket with some examples.

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Hi,

Just had it installed, working on look and feel. It is a great mod! Having some difficulty adapting what I want the blog to look like and what is out of the box.

I want to have the entire post appear on the categories page instead of the synopsis and make it between 3 and 5 posts per page. It would be closer to my old blog. Is there a way to do that? That would be a nice feature for the mod, to have the ability to choose between displaying just the synopsis or the whole post on the category pages.

Integration with Facebook comments will be awesome if it works for 4.4.5 (Being a bit selfish here). It does need more Social features.

It is a dream to have it so well integrated with XCSEO. It would be even better if it would integrate on the actual category and post pages in admin so that it can be customized on the fly when they are added rather than having to go to the XCSEO interface. Just like the nifty modification available for XCSEO in product pages. Is there such a code snippet, please?

All in all, it may take a bit of work to customize but I am a real novice at this so it may not be so difficult for others. The structure and performance are truly great.

All I can say is that I wish I had it sooner! Thanks for another fabulous mod, Jon!

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Good suggestion. In the meantime you can modify the xcms_customer_display_entries.tpl and find:

{$xcmsEntries[entry].synopsis}

and change to:

{$xcmsEntries[entry].body}



You can change the listings per page in the module settings.


I'm assuming you mean CDSEO ;)

I will be adding this as native functionality to xCMS when CDSEO is installed and enabled in an upcoming release.

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Hi, Yes, CDSEO, of course - my apologies! I'll try the changes.

Will you let us know when the upgrade is available, please?

Thanks!

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Yes I will let people know.

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Jon,

Thanks - it changed the display exactly to I wanted.

Would you have a suggestion as to what the best way to move the articles to the xCMS posts? Simply 301 the page? It would be great to keep the SEO.

Thanks again!

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

John - I need to modify a template (reBOOT) so that I can have the sidebar entry list like we did on our older versions. Not sure where to start looking.

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Hi Jon, Nice to see you back! Have you tested CDSEO Pro on 4.6.0 yet?

Hi Carl, Try adding the following to the reBOOT bar.tpl

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Hello Paul - The stressed out kids are on the way north tomorrow morning....

I did try that with fairly ugly results. It is up there now if you want to take a look at it.

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

If possible it is best to keep the same urls. Next best solution is to keep the old urls active for a time with canonical link tags to the new urls and then 301 redirect after they are reindexed. Last best solution is to 301 redirect the urls immediately.

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

I've gone through 4.6 doing a comparison of every file change against 4.5.5 to see what exactly they've done and there shouldn't be any issues with CDSEO on 4.6. That said I haven't had a chance to test yet, will do so as soon as I get client work and support up to speed (sure wish X-Cart would provide notice of upgrades so I could set time aside for compatibility testing).

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

I don't recall how it used to look. Can you elaborate?

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Hi, Jon,

Can't keep the same url, my old blog is on a subdomain and on a different platform (WP). Just did some more research but can't figure out how to use the canonical url which I imagine would have to be used on each page/old post to redirect to the new page/same post in x-cart.

I just noticed that on the category pages after I changed from the synopsis to the complete post, the posts do not have the related products on the category pages. Is there a way to add that? It makes it much more attractive.

Thanks again!

Vera

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Hi, Jon,

Just thought of another suggestion for a feature. It would be wonderful to be able to insert a gallery of images in the posts.I am using Phil's galery mod. His mod works great too, it would be wonderful to join the two. It would mimic the Gallery plugins in WP. Just a thought!

Thanks again!

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Hi Jon, I've already skinned xCMS to be seamless with the reBOOT template as I'm using reBOOT too. I'll contact Carl directly. Thanks for the 4.6.0 notes! Paul

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Thanks Paul!

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

This would require some more significant customization. I've added this to our list of features for development.

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

That would be a very neat feature but wouldn't be something I would consider implementing unless there was a lot more demand for it - currently you are the first and only to request :)

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

For Phil's reBOOT Template Users:

Send me a PM with your email and I will send you the modified xCMS menu_customer.tpl file.

You will need to do one small CSS tweak.

In xcms.css comment out background-color: #c5d0e1; as shown below with /* background-color: #c5d0e1; */

Thank you,

Paul

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Thanks for posting up the code.

It all looks great but for some reason mine shows no links.

The entries are shown in the menu but no links or buttons work. They seem to be missing entry id's

http://www.xxxxxx.com/xcms_entry.php?xcmsentryid=

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Please send me a PM with your URL. Thanks! Paul

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

I appreciate you taking the time to post the code for others.

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Please take out the extra spaces in the variables below.

Change

{$lng.lbl_xcms_r ss_title} to {$lng.lbl_xcms_rss_title}

and

{$xcmsNavigationSubC ategories[subcats].categoryid} to {$xcmsNavigationSubCategories[subcats].categoryid}

I tried to re-paste the code from my text editor but the forum editor keeps putting the extra spaces...

Everyone else please PM me with your email address and I'll send you file. There is a problem between my text editor and posting it into the forum editor.

Thanks,

Paul

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Paul, is this the same code you had me do? I don't want to redo if it is. :)

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

Hi Carl, since I emailed you the file as an attachment all is good. The problem only exists when I paste the code from my text editor into the x-cart forum editor.

Happy Father's Day! Paul

Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
 

ah ok. Yep You too! We're on our way to brunch as we speak.