News Box Manager v2.0.0 [Support Thread]

[lat9]

@sportsguy, I don't think that's as-distributed behavior. The "more_news" page should show the starting date (and ending date, if specified) as its header. Check for any customizations you've made to /includes/modules/pages/more_news/header_php.php.

[bonheddwr]

I have the News Box Manager installed on our site. Is there a way of integrating it with "Ceon URI Mapping" so that we can have for example:

https://www.welsh-lovespoons.co.uk/news/lovespoons-booklet

instead of

https://www.welsh-lovespoons.co.uk/index.php?main_page=more_news&news_id=2

Thanks for any advice.

[lat9]

I have the News Box Manager installed on our site. Is there a way of integrating it with "Ceon URI Mapping" so that we can have for example:

https://www.welsh-lovespoons.co.uk/news/lovespoons-booklet

instead of

https://www.welsh-lovespoons.co.uk/index.php?main_page=more_news&news_id=2

Thanks for any advice.

My guess is that the answer is "Yes", but you'll need to ask in the Ceon URI Mapping plugin's support thread: https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....I-Mapping-v4-x

[bonheddwr]

My guess is that the answer is "Yes", but you'll need to ask in the Ceon URI Mapping plugin's support thread: https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....I-Mapping-v4-x

Thank you, I have now done so and await a reply.

One more question. Is there a way of getting the title that you include when writing an article to appear as the page title, and also the content of the article as the meta description?

At the moment it simply uses the general website title as the meta title for all articles, and the meta description is the list of categories, again the same for all articles. is there a way of deciding the meta tags I want to use for each individual article? Should this happen automatically?

e.g https://www.welsh-lovespoons.co.uk/i...news&news_id=5

Thanks for any advice.

[lat9]

I've created a GitHub issue (https://github.com/lat9/news_box_manager/issues/5) for your request to add meta-tag support (great idea, by the way). I'll post back when the change has been made.

[bonheddwr]

Hi, I've posted this general question elshwere regarding the meta tags issue. If anyone knows how this can be done manually in the meantime whilst you are looking into including it with the News Box Manager as default that would be great! Thanks for any advice.

https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....meter-and-ID-s

[bonheddwr]

Hi, where exactly is the information for the News items stored? I need to change the Article Date(s): on a few of the news items. I cannot do this via backend, so I tried searching the database but no luck. It's probably 'news_last_modified' that I need to change for the articles, but where is this info stored? Thanks.

[lat9]

I've created a GitHub issue (https://github.com/lat9/news_box_manager/issues/5) for your request to add meta-tag support (great idea, by the way). I'll post back when the change has been made.

I've just submitted v2.2.0 of the News Box Manager to the Zen Cart plugins for review. That version now has the capability to define article-specific meta-tags and also corrects the database values stored for the various date fields (required for more recent versions of MySQL).

I'll post back here once it's approved.

[honda-crunch]

Hi,
Just tried installing the latest version 2.2.0 with the added metadata.
Installation was very simple, just had to edit my tpl_index_default file. However, there apears to be a problem with the auto install. The result was; that after you have created a news article then press update, you get a white page with an error message at the top of the page.

After searching the logs, I found that the installer (in my case) didn't add the meta tag columns to the (box_news_content) database table.

I made many backups, exported a sql of the table then added the missing headers. Part the of sql now looks like the version below. The original stopped at 'news_content` text NOT NULL':

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `box_news_content`;
CREATE TABLE `box_news_content` (
`box_news_id` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`languages_id` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1',
`news_title` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
`news_content` text NOT NULL,
`news_metatags_title` text NOT NULL,
`news_metatags_keywords` text NOT NULL,
`news_metatags_description` text NOT NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

The application now works perfectly. Just wondered if all other users are having the same problem.
I'm not a professional programmer and have limited knowlege on server databases.

If it helps, I'm running on zen-cart 1.5.5f