A complete blogging and content module for Miva Merchant.
Updated December 2023: v3.524
Scot's Blogger uses store templates to display content in any way you can imagine. SEO, ecommerce blogging, landing pages, marketing, managing old static html pages, and more, all within one system that makes it easy and convenient to manage your content.
You might have the slickest store around, but if you don't have enough SEO related content your visibility suffers.This modules helps you get the most out of your SEO key words and phrases.
Create store page template to serve up unlimited content! Templates are store pages which means you can use any kind of page template coding you need.
"This product is a dream come true for many of us!" - Lynne Phelps, Digital Branding & Information Architext, Sy-Klone International
"We really like how Blogger integrates with Miva so smoothly." - http://ClassicCarInterior.com
"Perfect! Thanks for all of the expert support you have provided. This module has evolved into a very useful tool for me now and I would recommend it to others wanting a built in blog for Miva stores." - Kris Larson, Larson Shutter Company
Scot's Blogger is constantly being developed to offer more features and usability. Don't hesitate to ask a question or send in a request for something new.
If you are looking for a way to create more "pages" in your store for content, documentation, journals, and that sort of thing but don't need a full featured blogging system, please take a look at Instapages.
Instapages is our new flagship module and the easiest and most powerful content management system we've ever built.
3.526 Sept, 2024
New:
Added option in Blog Social Settings to automatically use the first image of the post as the featured image.
Related posts auto-generate based on category and tags using a checkbox option at the bottom of the post
Optional auto-set auto related posts option for any post that does not have them.
-- Check the updated "content" template and uncomment the code in the AUTO GENERATE RELATED POSTS LIST comment.
Authors can set their own editor window width. Helps visualize the final product.
Added option to turn off auto sitemap creation and instead create sitemaps in the Scheduled Tasks.
-- If you are using scheduled tasks to auto publish then you can turn auto sitemaps off because sitemaps are automatically created during that process.
-- The setting is near the top of "Misc Settings" when editing a blog in the admin.
Simple utility to import SEO meta title and desc from a csv file (useful for importing seo data from wp)
Added private author notes.
Updated:
Category "Blog It!" UI cleaned up.
Blog custom home page now checks to see if URI already exists in miva URI system.
Fixed:
Data issue with basic related posts
Cleaned up "author" dropdown in the editor page (no more duplicate authors)
Current author is auto selected in a new post
Turning off ratings setting now works as expected. Also hides css/js so ajax can't be spidered.
Many small UI and performance updates.
3.525 Feb, 2024
Bug fix: Sometimes loading a list of posts includes information from previous posts
Bug fix: Blog-it for categories now works if there is only one blog
Updated wordpress json api import to handle some outliers
Editor updates with new font size, color, and family options
Added fb, google, schema validators/testers to information box
General UI and other updates
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