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New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
xCMS for X-Cart is a fully integrated, full featured content management system that allows you to post blogs, information, news, articles and more to x-cart.
Questions? Call us! 1.604.477.7049 FULLY INTEGRATED WITH CDSEO! We've updated our SEO optimization module, CDSEO Pro for X-Cart, to provide xCMS with all the SEO optimization tools of CDSEO including xml sitemap integration, search engine friendly urls, custom page titles, meta descriptions, meta keywords and link titles. Category Features
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Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
I just bought it, so hopefully it will work out. The idea behind it sounds great.
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Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
I just bought it too. I'm hoping this mod will increase our google rankings once we begin adding lots of articles, blog content, etc. to the site. It is a nice looking mod. I've only been using it for a little while but here's my feedback so far.
Pros: - support is excellent (really - very fast and helpful)! - interface is user friendly - very flexible in terms of setting up your own categories and subcategories and arranging them in order, etc. - flexible in terms of what you would like to display on the home page - ability to add pictures - ability to link "related item(s)" from the store to a particular blog or article (this is a bidirectional link which also shows on the product page - very cool!) - wysiwyg editor for blog/article entries - integrates nicely with CDSEO Pro (it creates seo friendly urls for your blog entries automatically, etc.) - offers rss feed option Cons: - there's no option to have thumbnail images for articles, which means I've spent a lot of time re-sizing images in photoshop to get things looking "clean" and symmetrical - it seems to me this would be easy to add because x-cart already has the ability to do this, but I'm no programmer so I'm not sure. - when you add a "related product" it doesn't display the product images thumbnail size the way they appear in the product listings, it shows them full size for some reason. This means if you use x-cart's automatic resizing for your product thumbnails (which I do, see the above mentioned dislike of resizing stuff in photoshop) all the previews of your "related items" will have large images. - no option to have tags for entries the way you do in Blogger - no option to order blog entries or articles - they are sorted by date. This is a bit of a pain because if you edit something it resaves it as the first (or most current) entry. There is the option to order the categories the way you like so it would be nice to add it for the entries as well. - no option to subscribe to blogs by means other than rss (email, "following", etc., although maybe these things are particular to Blogger? (sorry, I'm not that blog savvy!)
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Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
Thanks for the wonderful feedback. The image system does use the same image system that x-cart does so the image issues you are experiencing seems odd. The user can sort the entries by date/views/comments. We'll definitely consider your feedback for new options/features as we will continually improve the product based on feedback.
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Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
Here's an example of the image issues. The image on top has been manually reduced to appear thumbnail size otherwise it would be large as well (it does not automatically get reduced to a thumbnail. Maybe giving the user the option of having it thumbnail size or large when uploading would be better). Also the image for the "related item" on the right hand size appears full size which is too large:
http://www.lebabyshop.com/news/whats-new/whats-grrrrrrowling-around-at-le-baby-shop.html Ideally it should appear thumbnail size like it does here: http://www.lebabyshop.com/ride-on-toys.html
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Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
Any thoughts on fixing the image issues?
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Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
Love this product! So easy to use and quickly installed by Jon. We love to see our customers commenting on our news, blog and video library. Easy to set-up categories, add/edit entries, review comments and it integrates perfectly with CDSEO.
Great product and excellent support - Well Done!!
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Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
I have installed it but it seems to be missing a file xcms_admin_category_add.php. You cannot delete a thumbnail image. Plus when you change a blog icon all blog icons seem to change.
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Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
Sounds like there may be some install issues, please open a support ticket with us and provide FTP and we'll help get you fixed up.
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Re: New Release: xCMS - Blogs, Information, News, Articles and more!
ive raised a ticket for the missing file.
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