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Installation document for OpenBlog 2.x-3.x --Blog and news for Opencart site

Introduction

mBlog goes along with 6 sub-modules below:

Sub-modules

All sub-modules of mBlog also use with multi stores of Opencart based on setting layouts mechanism. Latest Articles, Popular Articles and Free Box can extremely edit image height and width sizes.

mBlog - Latest Articles will show newest articles.

mBlog - Popular Articles: Show based on highest pageviews of all articles.

mBlog - Free Box is special module of mBlog. You can create many particular boxes with selected articles, custom header and description.

mBlog - Categories: It shows blog categories and both sub-categories are consisted of in there together.

mBlog - Cloud Tags: All tags in each articles are shown together with colorful and animated performance.

mBlog - Copy Sources: To avoid wasting time, if you can not translate much languages for blog categories and articles, copy buttons will help you in copying data entry from default language.

Requirements

Administrator permission for OCMOD
How to use OCMOD Opencart
Check if you get error
Set FTP configs and must enable it
How to setup FTP for Opencart
Require to upload

Please make sure you have checked above requirements.

1. Upload

Unzip downloaded package and choose exact folder for your Opencart version.

Then you will see the file mBlog & News OC v2.x OC v*.* - v*.*.ocmod.zip or only ***.ocmod.xml.

Go to your Opencart admin panel ➔ Extensions ➔ Extension installer.

Upload file ***.ocmod.zip or ***.ocmod.xml ➔ Continue as image 1.1.


Image 1.1

Go to Modifications ➔ Click clear ➔ refresh buttons as image 1.2. This will remove and regenerate new cache for extension.


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2. Add permission

Login to your Opencart admin and go to System ➔ Users ➔ User Group.

Click edit your user group name (Opencart default user group name is Administrator as Image 2.1).


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Check both Access permission, Modify permission for mBlog & News OC v2.x as image 2.2.


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3. Installation

In admin menu click mBlog Manager then click install as image 3.1.


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Installation

There are 6 sub-modules to install. After having installing, you click edit button next to installing button.


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4. Configuration

Set Blog or News page name and its title to identify another pages as image 4.1.

Establish meta description & meta keywords for search engines.


Image 4.1

Activate SEO URL, fill email and choose default layout are also important for broadcast.


Image 4.2

Consider picture frame sizes to show exactly for each sections.


Image 4.3

Edit blog buttons and colorful features for your favorite styles.


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Insert social links for connecting it from your website.


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Tutorial for creating Facebook app ID:https://mmosolution.com/blogs/How-To-Create-Facebook-App.html.

After getting Facebook app ID, you insert that ID into red section as image 4.6 and save it.


Image 4.6

Take Google sitemap link.


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Configuration

1. we edit submodule mBlog - Latest Articles.

Set favorite module name, layout frame sizes and enable the status.


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For example such as image 2.2


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2. we edit submodule mBlog - Popular Articles.

Set favorite module name, layout frame sizes and enable the status.


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For example such as image 2.4


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3. we edit submodule mBlog - Free Box.

Set favorite module name, layout frame sizes, import articles, select stores to appear, fill box header, description and enable the status.


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Our sample.


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After that, you will have result similar to Image 2.7


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4. Enable sub-module mBlog- Categories.


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5. It's great to use sub-module mBlog - Cloud Tags to collect all article tags.


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To show above modified sections, please go to System -> Settings -> Design -> Layouts and edit any position you need to show such as Image 2.10


Image 2.10

6. Now, you edit sub-module mBlog - Copy Sources to create quick language input button for multi languages.

Don't forget to enable the status and you will avoid filling form errors in case of your website has many languages.


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Activate Copy Source buttons for quick data entry.


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Similar to Categories section


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5. Content

Firstly, go to mBlog Manager -> Categories. You can create one or more categories.


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Choose Top to show category if you want to add in menu bar of the website.


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Secondly, go to mBlog Manager -> Articles and you write articles.

Short description will appear next to article image to introduce content briefly, so this field is also important.


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Edit SEO keyword, thumbnail, publish data and choose status for it.


Image 5.4

Related Articles makes internal back links for your website.

Related Product is unique features of mBlog to broadcast for main selling store.


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Continuously, you should check installation guide for sub-modules below to express content in the best way.

That's almost complete. Thank you for your installation.

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