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

Big thanks for Paul for all his help on this one today.

Cheers again

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

If you guys have any other feature requests I'd be happy to hear them.

Off to a Father's Day picnic here ;)

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

Paul,
In the forum text editor, to prevent random spaces in code, wrap all code text in the [code] tag. Like this:


and


You can also select the code to wrap and press the "#" button. That's for standard code. If it's php code, use the "php" button.

Hope this helps..
J

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

Welcome back Jon, it's been a while...

I already posted some feature upgrade wish list.

But another thing from day one is searching for content...

Luckily for us, Bill at Altered Cart with his smart search mod has provided us with a powerful search integration to query xcms with entries related to search terms... Our search results page now shows xcms entries as well.

Way back when you l first launched your mod, you also provided us with some search integration...

I think this needs to be functional out of the box.

And yes, an easier way to integrate images would be appreciated. May be integrate with Bills new image upload system? For my staff to integrate images into xcms is a real night mare. First upload to server via ftp and then use the url... not working for all my challanged staff..

Can't wait to see your new features.

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

Search will be created out of the box. It will be xCMS only on the blog pages and won't integrate with the product search though.

Image uploading would be very useful. I will look into options for this at the time of implementation. This will be available in Q1 of 2014.

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

That's fine, but we still need to be able to find content (entries) on the main search page using the main search box... this is the part where every popular cart software falls short...

Bills integration sets us way ahead of the competition.

Offer it as an add on module to your standard xcms and I'm sure you'll sell it. I'll be your first buyer.

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

Jon
What is the timescale for XCMS on 4.6? We really need this and CDSEO so we can move off 4.5 as its becoming a problem for us.

Cheers

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

I'm working on compatibility for end of day August 1.

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

xCMS is now 4.6 compatible.

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

xCMS improvements have been scheduled for completion in September.

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

We have just installed this mod. It's a fantastic mod and great with CDSEO. I'm wondering if...


1.) .... there can a writer be attached to an article.

2.) ... signed in customers can leave comments with their username


I'm not sure if the 'News' section of xcms is replacing the other XC news. There is the RSS option which I see but I kind of miss the option to subscribe to the newsletter.

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

I am currently testing up a round of new features to xCMS that among other changes, includes Google Authorship and Facebook Comments integration, however posting comments with their x-cart username won't be supported.

xCMS does not modify the default X-Cart news in any way.

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

xCMS has just received a major update and includes new SEO and Social Media integrations.

Here are some of the highlights:

Added a Home/Index

- Recent Entries
- Most Viewed Articles (All | Last 30 Days | Last 7 Days)
- Most Commented Articles (All | Last 30 Days | Last 7 Days)

http://www.websitecm.com/images/D/xcms-blog-home-index.gif

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Integrated Google Rich Snippets

http://www.websitecm.com/images/D/xcms-blog-rich-snippets.gif

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Integrated Google Authorship with support for multiple authors


http://www.websitecm.com/images/D/xcms-blog-google-authorship.gif

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Added easily embedded YouTube videos and YouTube subscription.

http://www.websitecm.com/images/D/xcms-blog-youtube-videos.gif

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Integrated Facebook comments

http://www.websitecm.com/images/D/xcms-blog-facebook-comments.gif

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Other features include:

• An xCMS search functionality
• Ability for the admin to reply to comments when approving.
• Setting to support template integration on no-column layouts.
• Integrated CDSEO so SEO values can be customized directly from the add/modify admin screen when CDSEO is installed and enabled.
• Google News Keywords meta tag
• ... and more

View the complete changelog and purchase/upgrade at http://www.websitecm.com/x-cart-mods/x-cart-blog-cms.html

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

Looks great! Would be good to have Disqus on board and as already written the ability to have the thumbnails displayed above the text to make it look a bit more like modern blogs.

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

All looks great, Jon. We would be lost without this mod. Looking forward to upgrading ASAP.

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

I am interested in this mod. Some questions about it.

1. Does it use the same login and password as x-cart, i.e., user just login only once to access both x-cart and WP?
2. Does it support x-cart Platinum 4.6.1?
3. Does it has the same multi-language feature as x-cart?

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

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. No, to us multiple languages you would want to create a category for each language.

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

hi, jon, i got error sql notification when i tried to upgrade the latest version, i could not apply the patch, but there was not problem when i upgraded the csseo, below is the error message:

SQL errors:
[13-Jan-2014 00:10:55] (shop: 13-Jan-2014 03:10:55) SQL error:
Site : https://www.personalizedgiftsmall.com
Remote IP : 66.249.66.46
Logged as :
SQL query : SELECT
if(e.allow_comments=0,0,e.comments_count) as comments_count,
c.category,e.entryid,e.categoryid,e.subject,e.body ,e.synopsis,e.date,e.expiry,e.views,e.allow_commen ts,e.login,e.status,e.authorid
FROM
wcm_cms_entries as e,
wcm_cms_categories as c
WHERE
e.categoryid=c.categoryid AND e.categoryid IN (4) AND c.status!='0' AND e.status='1' AND e.date < 1389571855 AND (e.expiry = '0' OR e.expiry > 1389571855) ORDER BY
date DESC LIMIT 0, 3
Error code : 1054
Description : Unknown column 'e.authorid' in 'field list'
Request URI: /cdseopro.php
Backtrace:
/home/iphoneca/public_html/include/func/func.db.php:320
/home/iphoneca/public_html/include/func/func.db.php:217
/home/iphoneca/public_html/include/func/func.db.php:516
/home/iphoneca/public_html/modules/xcms/xcms_func.php:0
/home/iphoneca/public_html/modules/xcms/xcms_customer_init.php:57
/home/iphoneca/public_html/auth.php:126
/home/iphoneca/public_html/cdseopro.php:11


i also submitted the support ticket last week, the ticket number is WCM #KYT-645-39534, thanks

albert

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

We just upgraded to the latest version.

While we appreciate Jon continuing to develop this invaluable mod, we miss one of our requested features a while ago: Rating/Voting of articles.

But this is where Phil comes in with his Ajax Product Rating mod:http://www.xcartmods.co.uk/x-cart-ajax-product-rating-system.html

It is easy to integrate into xCMS:

If you want to display the rating feature on the Article List, add the code to the following template:
xcms_customer_display.tpl
{rating_bar id=$xcmsEntry.entryid}

If you want to display the rating feature on the article page, add the code to the following template:
xcms_customer_display_entries.tpl
{rating_bar id=$xcmsEntries[entry].entryid}

While Phil's mod is for xcart 4.1.x, it's easy to figure out how to make this work for 4.5.x

Note: Make sure you don't use Phil's mod for any other ratings, such as products ratings. Otherwise you will have to change the productID variable.

Caution: Googlebot and others are rating automatically. Haven't found out yet how to prevent this. Just like xcart out of the box, ratings are spammed.

We are now trying to figure out how to get google news snippets to pick up the article ratings... hope to post a solution in this thread once we find a solution... unless Jon jumps in :lol:

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

1. Can I update the xcms without loosing design adaptions?


2. Anyone can tell me how to implement disqus.com properly? It showed up but not correct.

Thanks.

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

You would want to merge any customizations into the xCMS files. I use BeyondCompare from http://www.scootersoftware.com/ for this.

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

Your support ticket has been addressed.

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

Did you try using a wildcard on the review variable in robots.txt?


Google will pick these up automatically. I will be adding a google news sitemap to CDSEO in the next CDSEO upgrade (v2.0) which is in active development.

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

What is the correct method for upgrades?

Just tried the upgrade and patch.sql will not run. It comes back with errors.

Now none of our entries show although they are still there in CDSEO

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

OK - I fixed this now by only running the new parts of the SQL query used in the patch.

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

The upgrade instructions can be found in the README.txt. After loading the new files accessing the xCMS admin section will prompt you with necessary changes and provide an SQL patch that needs to be applied.

Applying the SQL differences directly will prevent this from displaying the needed file changes. If you had xCMS installed prior to upgrading, you will still need to make those additional file changes. If you submit a ticket to https://www.websitecm.com/support/ I can send you those file changes.

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

I don't see the option to link products at the bottom of the entry anymore, has this been removed or replaced by something else?

Also is it possible to completely remove the top menu box that contains the search/most read links as this box is not required on our site.

Thanks

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

Hi, Jon,

We just cleaned some old products from the site and of course that will generate lots of 404 errors. I tried to forward to the home page, could not find out how. These products were deleted from the db. All other 404 errors direct to the custom page.

Then, after I played with setting, the 404 became a default page that does not even match the site's template.

How can I forward 404 to home page, please? I could do it easily in my older version of th emod but can't figure it out now.

Thanks!

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

After you add an entry you can add the linked products. The Upselling Module must be enabled for it to appear.



You can open the menu_customer.tpl to remove the code on lines 43-72.

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

CDSEO directs SEO friendly links to the x-cart default. X-Cart directs all product links to product.php which is always a valid url. X-Cart then delivers its own 404 page. Instead of deleting products it is best to disable them and then 301 redirect them via the CDSEO Admin section.

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

How to get Google Authorship to work? Website is claimed and all but there's no author appearing within the drop down in the backend.

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

Did you add an author in the xCMS "Authors" section?

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

Where can I do this?

I only see:

xCMS
- Categories
- Entries
- Comments
- Settings

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

Anyone knows how to do this?

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

Custom Modules > xCMS > Settings: The last option toggles on and off Authorship.

Custom Modules > xCMS > Authors takes you to the screen for managing Authors.

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

I know, it's activated already but still doesn't work.
The dropdown appears in the new entry section but there's no author to choose from.
Thanks

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

You have to add an author for one to be selectable. All works very well for us.

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

That's my question: where to add this author as there is nothing in the drop down to select from.

I finally found it on the server. /xcms_admin_authors.php
There was the link within the xcms missing that's why the complete section authors was missing.
Thanks!

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

You might have an error in your install or sometimes it's necessary to clear the template cache for the change to take place.

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

Jon, I'm not seeing any place to put author info although it's enabled in the settings.
Kara
vs 1.4.1