Cart-Power Add-On: Power Blog

Friends, our Power Blog add-on was updated to version 2.20!

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Why You Should Use Blog?

Power Blog is a unique tool for reactivating existing customers and attracting new people to your store. Visitors who come to your site for info purposes can subscribe to your blog news or even buy something!

Power blog allows you to work with a variety of content and publish not only text articles, but also image galleries, videos, posts on places and events tagged on maps.

Work with different content - text articles, image galleries, videos, posts on places, and events tagged on maps to write useful articles for your store and get **additional search traffic**. We made sure that your articles appear in search results. You may automatically generate SEO data and include new blog pages into the XML sitemap.

Want to save articles from the default CS-Cart? Import them into one of the Power Blog categories in a few clicks. You don’t have to start from scratch!

After attracting a visitor to the site, the work does not end. Our goal is to get a new client (sell a product) or a subscriber (try to sell a product later). Power Blog allows you to do both: attach related products to posts, send articles to subscribers via email.

Power blog allows you to **link articles to products**, product categories, brands, and events - create a single space with easy navigation between articles and associated products.

Take the opportunity to expand your readership many times over - post blog articles on the popular services Yandex.Zen, Yandex.News and Yandex.turbo. The process of updating news feeds is automated with the help of the CRON command.

Create Blog author profiles and customize the All authors page - editable SEO data on these pages will help you make your blog more visible to search engines.

With the growing number of blog posts, it’s crucial that your articles are not lost. For easy navigation, Power Blog uses a convenient structure with categories and sections, a separate search form, and article tags. You can easily create and customize blogs for each storefront separately in the multi-storefront versions of the platform.

Use All Power Blog Features:

  • Style selection for articles list pages (text list, list with images, various grid styles, scroller);
  • Sections and categories structure for posts;
  • Ability to create an additional Blog author profile for administrators (and vendors in the Multi-Vendor edition);
  • Ability to create pages for authors of articles;
  • Layouts configuration for blog sections display;
  • Color scheme configuration for separate blog elements: buttons, hyperlinks, background, etc.;
  • Watermarks support for blog images;
  • 5 article types: text article, image gallery, video, place, and event with map tags;
  • Ability to display author, article type, short description, views counter, approximate reading time and tags on the article;
  • Availability periods for articles;
  • Ability to export RSS feeds to Yandex.Zen, Yandex.News, Yandex.turbo;
  • Import articles from default CS-Cart blog into Power Blog;
  • Full integration with default Comments and Reviews add-on for user communication;
  • Tags for articles;
  • 7 new blocks for blog managing: “Blog Archive Block”, “Blog Search Block”, “Blog Subscription”, “Blog Articles List”, “Blog Categories”, “Blog Tags”, “Filter Articles by Type Block”;
  • Ability to customize the display of blog articles on any store page: product, product categories, vendor articles, or brands page;
  • Ability to display the “Event” articles in a special block with an indication of the start date;
  • Ability to display the reading progress bar on article pages;
  • Display related products at article page;
  • New article notifications for blog subscribers with the ability to unsubscribe;
  • Statistics on sending notifications for each article with detailed information about site visits they generate;
  • Separate section for blog categories in the Sitemap HTML;
  • Articles and blog categories are included to Google Sitemap XML automatically (integration with the built-in CS-Cart “Google Sitemap” add-on);
  • AB: Advanced sitemap supported.
  • Auto generating meta data and meta key words for every category and article;
  • Integrated Rich snippets and FB Open Graph markups;
  • Ability to enter data for Open Graph manually on the blog article and category (in integration with Cart-Power: Open Graph markup);
  • Build in search by blog;
  • The SEO is optimized, there are several SEO URL options for blog articles and blog categories. Ability to edit the meta description, meta keywords, page titles, H2 for every category and article manually;
  • Integration with the CP: SEO templates add-on - generation of SEO data for blog articles and blog categories by template;
  • Ability to limit access to publishing articles for vendors depending on the vendor plan in Multi-Vendor;
  • Vendor article moderation by admin;
  • Support of the vendor panel configurator;
  • Ability to create and configure separate blogs for each storefront in Ultimate editions;

Support:

Learn more in documentation.

Need modifications or any assistance? Please, feel free to contact us via HelpDesk system.

Upgrades:

6 months of free upgrade period included.

Compatibility:

- CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor versions 4.10.x - 4.16.x

- Works correctly with the popular themes YOUPI and UniTheme.

Buy Power Blog add-on now.

Try free demo.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Best regards,
Cart-Power

ok so when I spazed out and bought lots of addons the other day this was another one I got and wanted to use to help categorize my installation documents. I've been very happy and think it turned out very nice, you can see what I've done here:



http://www.snorocket.com/docs.html

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ok so when I spazed out and bought lots of addons the other day this was another one I got and wanted to use to help categorize my installation documents. I've been very happy and think it turned out very nice, you can see what I've done here:



[url=“http://www.snorocket.com/docs.html”]http://www.snorocket.com/docs.html[/url]

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We are glad that it is useful for you. Looks comfortably.

Dear friends,

We are glad to inform you that we have made new version of [url="http://www.cart-power.com/cs-cart-power-blog-add-on.html"]CS-Cart "Power Blog" add-on[/url]. New release includes:

ability to customize blocks for each category and main blog page



ability to add the description for main blog page




ability to add the description for each category



We will be happy if you leave any comments.

Dear friends,

One another good news. We have made compatibility of CS-Cart "Power Blog" add-on with basic CS-Cart responsive themes.

Please, take a look a screen-shot:



Updated demo is available:

  • [url="http://demo.cart-power.com/blog/index.php?dispatch=blog.list"]customer area[/url]
  • [url="http://demo.cart-power.com/blog/admin.php?dispatch blog.manage_desc"]admin area[/url]

is there anyway to get wordpress connect with cs cart… Thank you.

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is there anyway to get wordpress connect with cs cart… Thank you.

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Could you please describe how you see connection process? May you should just install WordPress to subdomain and use it?

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Could you please describe how you see connection process? May you should just install WordPress to subdomain and use it?

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i saw some shoping store connect the wordpress with the shopping cart, it looks like the wordpress and the shopping cart is combined.

Not as the one use the subdomain.

[quote name='londonman' timestamp='1403880686' post='186555']

i saw some shoping store connect the wordpress with the shopping cart, it looks like the wordpress and the shopping cart is combined.

Not as the one use the subdomain.

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Do you wish use admin panel of word press, create post on them, but posts must be displayed in CS-Cart? You could create posts in “Power Blog” add-on. If you describe how do you see functionality, we will consider suggestion.

Just two quick questions.


  1. Does this addon support multi-stores? different blog posts for each store?


  2. The posts store in the same tables of pages or in it's own table? If I uninstall this addon, will all articles be removed?

[quote name='Cart-Power' timestamp='1403938502' post='186577']

Do you wish use admin panel of word press, create post on them, but posts must be displayed in CS-Cart? You could create posts in “Power Blog” add-on. If you describe how do you see functionality, we will consider suggestion.

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yes

the wordpress looks like it is in the shopping cart. when viewers come to view the post on wordpress, they still in the shopping cart front store but not go to the individual sub-domain.

when they view, they can view the products by the way.

i hope that this can explain more

[quote]1. Does this addon support multi-stores? different blog posts for each store?[/quote]



Yes, it does. You can create posts for each store separately.


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[color=#282828][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]2. The posts store in the same tables of pages or in it's own table? If I uninstall this addon, will all articles be removed?[/font][/color]

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Separate table is created for blog posts. If you uninstall add-on, all posts will be removed too.

[quote][color=#282828][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]yes[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]the wordpress looks like it is in the shopping cart. when viewers come to view the post on wordpress, they still in the shopping cart front store but not go to the individual sub-domain.[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]when they view, they can view the products by the way.[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]i hope that this can explain more [/font][/color][/quote]



Well why you can not use just our add-on? If you have wordpress blog, we can just export all posts to your add-on as custom development service.

I bought this mod and have worked with Rusian at Cat-Power to improve it. He's been very willing to listen to users, fix bugs and make improvements quickly. I would recommend this not only as a “blog”, but as a way to organize articles.



It does not use standard content pages, but sets up a separate system of categories and posts. This is good and bad in that you can't easily back up your posts. I think they were going to improve this in the future. What I have done is create the posts in regular content pages that are hidden and then copied them over. I ten also have a block of regular content pages and links as well.



They've given the user a very flexible way of creating their own layouts and most of the mod titles, etc can be altered in the templates and languages section.



Very fast and flexible way to create a nice library of info, and I appreciated their good service. A bargain at his price too.



You can see it here: Blog



Jack

Can you please add “Meta Page Title” to this addon?

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Can you please add “Meta Page Title” to this addon?

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Thank you that informed us about it! We just missed it. It will be done today. We will inform about it additionally in this topic.

[quote]Can you please add “Meta Page Title” to this addon?[/quote]



We are glad to inform you, that we have fixed this issue.



Thank you.

I purchased this addon. It works great as a simple blog.



There are two things missing for SEO: the social share buttons, and canonical URLs.



I hope this addon can be improved to include these features.

[quote name='ghostrider' timestamp='1404993687' post='187327']

I purchased this addon. It works great as a simple blog.



There are two things missing for SEO: the social share buttons, and canonical URLs.



I hope this addon can be improved to include these features.

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Yes, we will correct it in the nearest time.

Dear Friends,

We improved our blog add-on last time. It has much changes and we hope you like them.

Here is new full list of features:

  • fully compatible with CS-Cart responsive themes and CS-Cart v4.2.x
  • ability to create [url="https://www.cart-power.com/cs-cart-images-gallery-add-on.html"]images gallery[/url] in the articles (Using our "Image gallery" add-on)
  • ability to create different categories of articles
  • ability to add description for each category
  • ability to attach articles to different categories
  • comments system for blog articles (with "Comments and reviews" add-on)
  • ability to list articles in blocks using three different types of block (vertical block, horizontal, grid, text links)
  • three types of filling of blocks (manually, random, latest)
  • ability to customize blocks for each article
  • ability to customize blocks for each blog category page and main blog page
  • ability to use an image for blog preview from blog content
  • ability to set images size for blocks, articles lists pages
  • blog archive with a search
  • ability to subscribe to blog
  • ability to manage subscriptions in administrator panel
  • separate section for blog categories in the sitemap
  • ability to add blog in Google sitemap xml (integrated with standard Google sitemap add-on)
  • SEO friendly (SEO friendly URL for blog articles and categories)
  • ability to set Meta Description, Key words, Page title for each category and article
  • automatic generation of the Meta Description and Meta Keywords
  • Rich Snippets ready
  • ability to list by author, date, category, tags
  • social share buttons for each article
  • A great amount of settings and configurations

Blog looks more attractive now. Just take a look:




New demo is available here:

  • [url="http://demo.cart-power.com/cscart421/blog/"]customer area[/url]
  • [url="http://demo.cart-power.com/cscart421/admin.php"]admin area[/url]

Compatibility with 4.0.X, 4.1.X, 4.2.1

Let us know if you have any questions.