Page Title

Enter the name for your blog.

Note : If your site has SEO dynamic turned on, you are not allowed to use the specialcharacters below in the blog title :
<br>-""\/().,:*!@#$%~&amp;?--|

Headline

Enter the title or headline of the blog.

Content Body

Enter the full description of the blog, you can add images,do HTML formatting here and other features using the HTML Editor.

Hide

Setting this to Yes will hide the blog from the site.

Show on box

Setting this to Yes will display the blog in the left column of the Blogs section.

Show on Home Page?

Setting this to Yes will display the blog in the homepage as a box.

If you want to display a blog in the homepage, make sure you also set Archive (see below definition) to Noas archive blog will not be displayed in the homepage.

Archive?

Set this to Yes to include the blog in the archive listing. So when a customer clicks to see than archive listing of the blog in blogs page, this blog can be found. (shopblogslistings.asp)

Start Date

Enter a start date for the blog to be published online.

End Date

Enter an end date for the blog to expire.

Meta Title

Meta title for this blog.

Meta Keywords

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

Meta Description

Meta description for this blog.

Access Level

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

Registered Customers Only : Only registered usesr or logged in customers can view this blogs page.

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

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

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

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

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 blogs page because the customer is in the customer group Reseller, which is in excluded list although the customer is also in the other group Wholesale. This is how the VPCart system works to take the excluded list as basis when a customer belongs to both groups in the included list and excluded list.

Image

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

Template File

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

Language

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

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

xBlogsBoxTemplate

Used as the Template for Home Page Blogs Box.

xBlogsBoxHeadLinesOnly

Show only Headlines inside the Blogs Box.

xBlogsfullstoryHomeBox

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

xBlogssummarylengthHome

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

xBlogsHomePageTemplate

Used as the Blogs Template for Home Page.

xBlogsarchiveavailable

Allow customers to view an archive of blogs items.

xBlogsindexcalendar

Option to display the index of blogs items as a calendar (blog style) or as a list of links.

xBlogsallowreviews

Allow people to post reviews of your blogs items.

xBlogsreviewsonpage

Show reviews on the blogs page - if No, then reviews link goes to separate page.

xBlogsreviewsauthrequired

Yes means that reviews need to be authorized before they are shown on the site.

xBlogssummarylength

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

xBlogsfullstory

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

xBlogsReviewTemplate

This is the Template used to generate the email sent to the merchant when a review is added to a blogs item.

XBlogsReviewMailtoMerchant

If set to Yes, the merchant will receive an email whenever a review is added to a blogs item.

xBlogsTemplate

The Template used to display blogs items.

xBlogsFullTemplate

This is the Template used to display the full blogs article.