ECT Blog and Content Management System Version 2

The ECT blog and content management system is designed from the ground up to enable you to easily add extensive pieces of content to your website. It integrates directly into your ECT admin panel which ensures that you can readily access and manage your content. Version 2 adds some heavily requested features, improves the SEO support and enhances the way you post your content. 

Through the use of the ECT Blog and Content Management system you can totally eliminate the need for including any hard coded static pages such as frequently asked questions, privacy statements, etc.

Benefits

• Manage all of your content pages through the Ecommerce Templates main admin panel.
  The ECT Blog and Content Management system integrates directly into the Ecommerce Templates admin panel. This makes it easy to create and modify content while you are managing your store.
• Define a complete menu structure with the ability to integrate blog categories and product categories automatically into the menu.
  The ECT Blog and Content Management system includes an integrated menu management system with a menu output script. By utilizing this menu system you can easily add and remove menu items from your site without ever touching the source code. It also features built in support for exporting your Ecommerce Templates product categories and the blog categories in a specific menu. The menu's are output using nested unordered lists which can be easily styled using CSS and if you choose, JavaScript.
• Write and manage a blog like system with full support for categories, comments and ratings.
  With the ECT Blog and Content Management System you can create categories for your blogs and write blogs. The blogs support comments, multiple pages and ratings.
• Manage and approve comments made to blogs.
  Within the admin panel you can approve or delete pending and approved comments. Comments must be approved before they are displayed on the site.
• Create and Manage Sub-Content Regions
  Sub-content regions allow you to easily create sub content which can be displayed in alternative portions of the page. Each blog or content item can support up to 7 sub-content regions.
   

The ECT Content and Blog Management System is an Add-On

An add-on will not be affected by updates to the core ECT shopping cart. No changes are made to any of the core files of ECT.

Requirements

Requires an Apache server with mod_rewrite or a Windows server with ISAPI Rewrite capabilities.

PHP 5+
MySQL 5+

Demo

Sample Content Management Admin Panel

Username: mystore
Password: changeme

To see the sample, click on the Admin Page link on the main admin page.

Content Features

1. Define content pages such as frequently asked questions, privacy policy, etc. All information is stored in the database
2. Add PHP includes directly into your content such as recommended products.

Blog Features

1. Define blog categories.
2. Write blogs which are displayed from within the categories.
3. Define multiple pages within the blog.
4. Integrate PHP code into the blog.
5. Comments

SEO Features

1. Control the URL using mod_rewrite
2. Fully customizable Title tag
3. Fully customizable Meta Description
4. Fully customizable Meta Keywords
5. Full support for H1-H7 tags

Admin Features

1. Create and manage blog categories.
2. Create and manage content.
3. Create and manage blogs.
4. Create and manage a full menu within the admin panel.

The ECT Content/Blog Management System also has a captcha system integrated into the blog comment system to help reduce spam postings.