blog for xcart vs xCMS?
 

We are looking into a blog function to integrate with an existing site that is about to be upgraded to 4.4

Rather than a separate WordPress blog, I'd prefer an integrated solution. I've bought from both safetynet and websitecm in the past, and both are excellent.

Based on the description pages: http://www.safetynetweb.com/Blog-for-XCART.html and http://www.websitecm.com/x-cart-mods/x-cart-blog-cms.html, the latter seems to have more features.

Anyone evaluated them or had good experiences?

cheers

Re: blog for xcart vs xCMS?
 

Moving to Third Party Add-Ons

Re: blog for xcart vs xCMS?
 

I just installed xCMS and can only rave about the mod and Jon from websiteCM.

I tried connecting Joomla and Wordpress to xcart and it just didn't work.

Jon has just upgraded this mod to:

I can now relate entries (blogs) to any product category or product.

So, while browsing a category, you can now display related entries (blogs) specific to that category.

While displaying a Product, you can now display related entries (blogs) linked to its product category in a tab for example.

I also noticed that google picks up the entries from the blogs within hours. Not sure if it is due to the xCMS alone or in combination with the CDSEO-Pro I installed. But this combination of the 2 mods has definitely helped our google ranking.

This is truly the best content management system that integrates with x-cart. I've been waiting for years for this to work.

Re: blog for xcart vs xCMS?
 

Let me know if you have any xcms questions.

Re: blog for xcart vs xCMS?
 

Hi Jon,

Overall xCMS is impressive - it's just what we needed in terms of getting our site noticed by the search engines.

However we are having a problem with getting the articles related to a particular category displaying - they just don't. Is there a setting that we're missing?

As far as I can see we're doing everything correct i.e. relating the article to the category in the article editing screen.

Regards,
Chris

v4.1.5
CDSEO
xCMS

Re: blog for xcart vs xCMS?
 

Hi Chris,

If you send us a support ticket with FTP information we'll ensure it is working for you.

Jon

Re: blog for xcart vs xCMS?
 

Hi Jon,

All fixed now - thanks for your help. Just a bit missing from the installation instructions.

For future editions of the mod I might suggest including the ability to 'feature' articles or at least the ability to display in a rank order and also change the default sort display.

Re: blog for xcart vs xCMS?
 

Thanks for the feedback, it will certainly be considered. If you have any other feedback it is always appreciated.

Re: blog for xcart vs xCMS?
 

Would anyone have a store with xcms running on it that I could have a look to see it up and running ? or is there a demo site for xcms ?

Re: blog for xcart vs xCMS?
 

We have a demo at http://demo.websitecm.com/ (customer) http://demo.websitecm.com/admin/ (admin).

You can see it active also on http://www.websitecm.com/

Maybe some users wouldn't mind offering their sites as demos also.