Blog Extension by aheadWorks
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| Created |  aheadWorks
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| Last Updated | Mon, February 8, 2010 |
| Version | 1.0.17 |
| Compatibility | 1.2 - 1.4 |
| Stability | stable |
| Locales available in this package | English (United States) - en_US, Czech (Czech Republic) - cs_CZ, English (United Kingdom) - en_GB, German (Germany) - de_DE |
| Downloads | 20983 |
| Community Rating | |
| Categories | Interfaces, Catalog, Admin, Other, Templates, Layouts |
| License Type | GNU General Public License (GPL) |
| Tags | free, article, tag, aheadworks, extension, blog |
Overview
Full featured blog extension for Magento
PLEASE USE THIS FORUM TO REQUEST SUPPORT
Support messages to private board, reviews, aheadworks.com site or any other place are NOT welcome and unlikely to be considered!
Due to high level of interest in this extension we have no ability to support each user of Blog extension personally.
We do our best to deliver a great product and dedicate a lot of time and resources to the development, testing, working with feedback and frequent delivery of new versions, but it's impossible to study all problems and questions appearing on the forum. We contribute the code - users please contribute by communicating with other members. Let us all do Magento a better platform!
NOTE: If your store uses Monk_Blog, this extension is designed to replace it. Please disable Monk_Blog before install.
Edit app/etc/modules/Monk_Blog.xml: change true to false
Due to the lack of activity in this highly demanded extension development, aheadWorks has agreed with the owner and previous developer lazzymonk on moving the ownership rights to our company.
We are already well known in modules development sphere and decided to take our chance to make a valuable contribution to the community.
So we must answer the first question that could arise immediately - yes, the extension continues to be free and open source despite it changes its license and owner.
We'll try to dedicate more efforts to the development to make this extension better and better and satisfy growing needs of the community.
Compatibility
Sure, we made the new version compatible with the previous one. It doesn't delete any information, everything from your old blog will be integrated. To ensure proper migration please refer to the upgrade instructions and follow them thoroughly.
Features
The following bugs have been fixed:
Development and updates information
Here in aheadWorks we try to make our processes transparent for our clients. You can always find actual development and updates information in our blog and Magento group. Do not forget to subscribe to the topics of your interest.
New EULA, please read before download.
Support messages to private board, reviews, aheadworks.com site or any other place are NOT welcome and unlikely to be considered!
Due to high level of interest in this extension we have no ability to support each user of Blog extension personally.
We do our best to deliver a great product and dedicate a lot of time and resources to the development, testing, working with feedback and frequent delivery of new versions, but it's impossible to study all problems and questions appearing on the forum. We contribute the code - users please contribute by communicating with other members. Let us all do Magento a better platform!
NOTE: If your store uses Monk_Blog, this extension is designed to replace it. Please disable Monk_Blog before install.
Edit app/etc/modules/Monk_Blog.xml: change true to false
Due to the lack of activity in this highly demanded extension development, aheadWorks has agreed with the owner and previous developer lazzymonk on moving the ownership rights to our company.
We are already well known in modules development sphere and decided to take our chance to make a valuable contribution to the community.
So we must answer the first question that could arise immediately - yes, the extension continues to be free and open source despite it changes its license and owner.
We'll try to dedicate more efforts to the development to make this extension better and better and satisfy growing needs of the community.
Compatibility
Sure, we made the new version compatible with the previous one. It doesn't delete any information, everything from your old blog will be integrated. To ensure proper migration please refer to the upgrade instructions and follow them thoroughly.
Features
- Switchable categories ID in blog post URL
- Switchable menu categories
- Last Magento version compatibility
- Switchable WYSIWYG
- Excerpt field
- Tags added
- Tags cloud block added
- If user is logged in comment fields are pre-filled
- Ability to show blog menu only on blog page
- Settings menu shortcut
- Add post menu shortcut
- .htm rewrite added to post link
The following bugs have been fixed:
- SQL error while retrieving posts for store on frontend fixed
- Post is accessible from inaccessible store fixed
- Hardcoded labels
- Sitemap containing posts from other stores was generated for store
- Categories not shown in menu if there are no categories
- If category is not assigned to any store, it is shown by default at all stores
- Admin 404's when "add store code to url" is on fixed
- Non-clear posts delete
- Recent posts display fixed (0 caused unlimited posts instead of disabling)
- Auto-focus to comments form removed
Development and updates information
Here in aheadWorks we try to make our processes transparent for our clients. You can always find actual development and updates information in our blog and Magento group. Do not forget to subscribe to the topics of your interest.
New EULA, please read before download.
