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[designguru]

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.

[Jon]

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.

[Jon]

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

[designguru]

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.

[Kman]

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

[ledeem]

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?

[Jon]

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

[albertchui]

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

[espresso]

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

[designguru]

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.