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[Jon]

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.

[carpeperdiem]

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

[Jon]

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

[Vacman]

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.

[Jon]

Jeremy I updated your ticket with some examples.

[Acquamarina]

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!

[Jon]

Originally Posted by Acquamarina

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

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}

Originally Posted by Acquamarina

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?

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

Originally Posted by Acquamarina

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?

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.

[Acquamarina]

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

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

Thanks!

[Jon]

Yes I will let people know.

[Acquamarina]

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!