Create a positive online influence by using the most powerful online tool, Smart blog Joomla Addon. Start out as a hobby, get more clients by regularly updating your blog, become a source of inspiration and an authoritative writer, and more. This Joomla blog extension has loads of features to build and manage a successful blog.
After installing this module, a blog is added to your website. Blog landing page shows following options:
- Text for the blog landing page, that helps in SEO
- Breadcrumbs
- Smart Blog menu
- Blog search
The design and color scheme is extremely user as well as search friendly. Headings, tags and breadcrumbs are highlighted elegantly. Blog landing page shows all categories with the number of articles within them. By clicking on any category, users will see subcategories and a grid that will show the following information:
- Blog post title
- Author’s information
- Total visits
Here are the features in detail about different parts of this module.
Blog Post Features
Each post offers following benefits.
- Use MCE editor to easily format text, add images, videos, and more
- Add sort order
- View total visits on a blog post
- Choose category for blog post
- Add user friendly tags
- Post status can be set to published, unpublished, archived, and trashed
- Mark any post as featured
- Configure user access on posts e.g. only guests can view the post or any other user group like super users, registered and special ones
- Set language for post
- Add featured image
- Add author information
- You can also set active time duration for post
- Set Meta information for SEO
- View and manage subscribers to that post/blog
- View and moderate comments for that specific blog post
- Enable/disable comments, subscription, comments status
- Configure different user permissions such as author is allowed to edit post while guests can only view
Featured Blog Posts
This section shows all the featured blog posts which are set manually after editing the post. You can disable any article directly from this grid.
Blog Categories
In this section, you can create user-friendly blog categories with following features:
- Create unlimited categories with parent/child relationship
- Add content for category page by using MCE editor
- Set creation date and modified date
- Set author information
- View total visits on that category
- Assign numeric ID to the category
- Configure Meta information for SEO
- Set Robots Meta tags for SEO
- Configure general user permissions
- Configure alternative layout
- Add category image
- Add category tags
- Set status for the category such as published, archived etc.
- Configure access level such as only registered users can view any category, or all guests etc.
- Select language for the category
- Add notes
- Assign articles to that specific category from category level
Subscribers
View and manage your blog subscribers in this section.
General Options
- Set default width and height parameters for images and thumbnails
- Enable/disable following options for blog posts/categories: show author, link author, total hits, creation date, category, link category, show modify date, publish date
- Configure list settings for smart blog such as: enable display select
- Configure filter field such as hide, title, author or hits
- Show or hide table headings
- Show date with posts
- Set date format
- Show hits in list
- Show author in list
- Choose layout for category
- Show text on subcategories
- Set category title, image, and description
- Set max sub category levels
- Show or hide empty categories, tags, cat number items etc.
- Set mail options
- Configure general user permissions
How it Works
How it Works
Once the extension is installed, you will need to configure the options first. Click on the smart blog options link and follow these guidelines.
Options:
- Permissions: you can assign general permissions to users e.g. allow author to edit the posts whereas guest should have only read access.
- Images: you can configure max and min width of images and thumbnail s
- Smart blog: you can show/hide many options such as show author information, hits, date and a lot more.
- Configure list settings such as show date, filter field etc.
- Category: configure options layout, title and description, tags, and more.
- Mail settings: configure different mail options.
Once you are done with the options section, you will have these four panels to work with.
Category
In this section, you can create and manage blog categories with following options.
- Create unlimited categories with parent/child relationship
- Add content for category page by using MCE editor
- Set creation date and modified date
- Set author information
- View total visits on that category
- Assign numeric ID to the category
- Configure Meta information for SEO
- Set Robots Meta tags for SEO
- Configure general user permissions
- Configure alternative layout
- Add category image
- Add category tags
- Set status for the category such as published, archived etc.
- Configure access level such as only registered users can view any category, or all guests etc.
- Select language for the category
- Add notes
- Assign articles to that specific category from category level
Smart blog – Posts
- Use MCE editor to easily format text, add images, videos, and more
- Add sort order
- View total visits on a blog post
- Choose category for blog post
- Add user friendly tags
- Post status can be set to published, unpublished, archived, and trashed
- Mark any post as featured
- Configure user access on posts e.g. only guests can view the post or any other user group like super users, registered and special
- Set language for post
- Add featured image
- Add author information
- You can also set active time duration for post
- Set Meta information for SEO
- View and manage subscribers to that post/blog
- View and moderate comments for that specific blog post
- Enable/disable comments, subscription, comments status
- Configure different user permissions such as author is allowed to edit post while guests can only view
Featured Posts
- In this section, you can mark any article as features, which will be then displayed in featured section
Subscribers
- In this section, you can view all the subscribers to your blog
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