News Box Manager v2.0.0 [Support Thread]

[lat9]

I'm running out of ideas, but as the "failure to log" is outside the range of this support-thread, please start a new general thread to address that issue.

[boblodi]

I'm running out of ideas, but as the "failure to log" is outside the range of this support-thread, please start a new general thread to address that issue.

I have had a more database-savvy person look into this and i have a followup question - not about logging - about the news not posting.

When we attempt to add a news item, the code tries to execute this database query:

insert into uwyz_box_news_content (news_title, news_content, news_metatags_title, news_metatags_keywords, news_metatags_description, box_news_id, languages_id) values ('Test News Item', 'test', 'test', 'test', 'test', '24', '1')

So we went into the database to see what was in this uwyz_box_news_content database table, and what we found was this:

table uwyz_box_news_content

{

    box_news_id int 
    languages_id int

    news_title varchar(55)

    news_content text

};

Note that there is no column for news_metatags_title, news_metatags_keywords, news_metatags_description.

Any idea how these fields would not have been added to the table for the newest zen cart/news manager plugin? And is that the or related to the problem?

[lat9]

I'd apparently found that issue (meta tags not included in initial install) ... back in September! See this (https://github.com/lat9/news_box_manager/issues/7) GitHub issue for the correction.

I'll be getting an updated version going later today.

[lat9]

I've just submitted v2.2.1 of the News Box Manager to the Zen Cart plugins for review (https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.p...file&id=1968); I'll post back here once it's available for download.

This release contains corrections for the following GitHub issues:


#7: Meta-tags' fields not created on initial install
#8: Unwanted <br />'s added to the more_news page.

[boblodi]

I've just submitted v2.2.1 of the News Box Manager to the Zen Cart plugins for review (https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.p...file&id=1968); I'll post back here once it's available for download.

This release contains corrections for the following GitHub issues:


#7: Meta-tags' fields not created on initial install
#8: Unwanted <br />'s added to the more_news page.

Way cool - thank you! I will check in later to see if they approve the update and give it a try!

[lat9]

Way cool - thank you! I will check in later to see if they approve the update and give it a try!

You can get an early look-see by downloading the zip directly from the plugin's GitHub repository: https://github.com/lat9/news_box_man...ses/tag/v2.2.1

[lat9]

I've just submitted v2.2.1 of the News Box Manager to the Zen Cart plugins for review (https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.p...file&id=1968); I'll post back here once it's available for download.

This release contains corrections for the following GitHub issues:


#7: Meta-tags' fields not created on initial install
#8: Unwanted <br />'s added to the more_news page.

Now available for download.

[CottageOven]

Installed and apparently working, but where is the setting for having it show up in the "home page centerbox" or how must I code it to be there? I have looked in many settings that would seem to be applicable, but haven't found anything related to the center box - only side boxes.

Thanks.

[lat9]

Installed and apparently working, but where is the setting for having it show up in the "home page centerbox" or how must I code it to be there? I have looked in many settings that would seem to be applicable, but haven't found anything related to the center box - only side boxes.

Thanks.

Did you merge the plugin's changes to YOUR_TEMPLATE's tpl_index_default.php?

[CottageOven]

Did you merge the plugin's changes to YOUR_TEMPLATE's tpl_index_default.php?

No, but the template I'm using (responsive_classic) didn't have a tpl_index_default.php in the distribution zip file but there is one there now and it does contain references to new box.