Adding and Updating Content

You can add and edit your pages through the VPCART administration section : Store> Page Manager.



Below is a summary of the fields in the Content record.

 

Page Title

A name for your content

Content Header (message)

You can enter a header for your content using HTML or plain text.

Use as Homepage?

Setting this to Yes will display the content as the homepage content.

Content Body (message2)

This is the main body of information for the page.

Categories

Assign a category for your content page, you can have multiple categories in your content.

Hide (hide)

Setting this to Yes will hide the page.

Showonbox

Setting thisto Yes will display the content in the box.

Start Date

Enter the start date for the content.

End Date

Enter the end date for the content.

URL Link

If you want your content title to link to a url, please enter the url here.

Meta Title

Meta title for this content.

Meta Keywords

Meta keywords for this content, e.g. : keywords1, keywords2, keywords3

Meta Description

Meta description for this content.

Access Level

All Visitors : Unregistered and all registered customers can view thecontent page.

Registered Customers Only : Only registered users or logged in customers can view this content page.

Customer Groups : Select this if you want a  certain customer group to access a content page.

 

If you select the Customer Groups option, there will be two fields displayed below it :

Groups to be included : Select which customer groups can view this content page.

You can select more than one customer group by pressing CTRL + click another group.

 

Groups to be excluded : Select which customer groups cannot view this content page.

You can select more than one customer group by pressing CTRL + click another group.

 

In a certain case where a customer is grouped into more than one customer group, for example, customer A is grouped into customer group Wholesale and customer group Reseller.

 

Then when editing a category, we set the following, for example :

Groups to be included is set to Wholesale.

Groups to be excluded is set to Reseller.

 

Customer A will not able to see the content page because the customer is in the customer group Reseller, which is in the excluded list although the customer is also in the other group Wholesale. This is how the VPCart system works by taking the excluded list as basis when a customer belongs to both groups in the included list and excluded list.

Image

(contentimage)

This is the URL of an image to be displayed on this page.

Template File (template)

If you want to use a custom template to display this information, enter the folder and name of the template here.

In VPCart, we added new global config xcontent_templates. Default value is tmp_content.htm to be used for all content pages.

 

 

Language(contentlanguage)

If you are using the old method of adding translations (xselectproductsbylanguage=Yes) then enter the language that this content entry belongs to.

Other Fields 1

Unused

Other Fields 2

Unused

Other Fields 3

Unused

Include in Google Site Map

 

Choose Yes to include into Google Site Map Lists

Frequency

How frequently the page is likely to change. This value provides general information to search engines and may not correlate exactly to how often they crawl the page. Valid values are: always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, never.

 

The "always" value should be used to describe documents that change each time they are accessed. The "never" value should be used to describe archived URLs.

 

Please note that the value of this tag is considered a hint and not a command. Even though search engine crawlers may consider this information when making decisions, they may crawl pages marked "hourly" less frequently than that, and they may crawl pages marked "yearly" more frequently than that. Crawlers may periodically crawl pages marked "never" so that they can handle unexpected changes to those pages.

 

Priority

The priority of this URL relative to other URLs on your site. Valid values range from 0.0 to 1.0. This value does not affect how your pages are compared to pages on other sites—it only lets the search engines know which pages you deem most important for the crawlers.

 

The default priority of a page is 0.5.

 

Please note that the priority you assign to a page is not likely to influence the position of your URLs in a search engine's result pages. Search engines may use this information when selecting between URLs on the same site, so you can use this tag to increase the likelihood that your most important pages are present in a search index.

 

Also, please note that assigning a high priority to all of the URLs on your site is not likely to help you. Since the priority is relative, it is only used to select between URLs on your site.

 

The following Software Configuration options allow you to set up content management in your store:

 

Xmaxcontentcategories

A limit of the number of Contents / News / BLogs categories. If you get an error editing categories,enter a bigger number.

Xcustomercontentgroups

A comma-delimited list of customer content groups - eg. staff,customers

XcontentBoxHeadLinesOnly

Show only Headlines inside the News Box.

XcontentBoxTemplate

Used as the Template for Home Page Content Box.

XcontentfullstoryHomeBox

Show the full story on the Default Home page Box or just a summary with a [read more] link.

XcontentsummarylengthHome

If xcontentfullstoryHomeBox = No, then this is how many characters should be shown in the summary.

xcontent_templates

This is the default template for all content pages. Default value is tmp_content.htm