Power Blog

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! 

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.

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;
• 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;
• 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;
• 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 and H3 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;
• Ability to create and configure separate blogs for each storefront in Ultimate editions;

Support

Learn more in add-on documentation.

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

Upgrades

6 months of the free upgrade period included.

Attention: risk of the data loss during the upgrade!

To upgrade the add-on from version 1.0, you need to uninstall the old version. All add-on data will be lost. Please contact our technical support before starting the upgrade. We will help you to migrate your data from the old version of the add-on. 

Works correctly with the popular themes YOUPI and UniTheme.