News Extension

It is a fact that getting featured in any newspaper or on digital media can attract visitors to your online store. If your website gets featured, then you want to show it to your customers. Using this extension, the admin can post news articles on the website. They can also create categories and publish articles along with the image. The news extension will help you make your store more interactive and will keep your visitors updated with the latest business updates, developments, and achievements. The opportunity to comment on the news, as well as integration with social networks like Google+, Facebook, and Twitter. When you enable this extension, it will provide you the functionality to create categories and articles as per your needs. You can create an article or blog, add a photo of the newspaper/magazine or a screenshot of the digital content, add the published date, and add the source information (newspaper/magazine name, blog, or website) which will show on the front-end. This extension can be used as the blog for your website where the admin can publish news/updates and posts and other information related to the website. 

Features

• Category Management
  Categorize your news for easy navigation, possible to set the meta information per category for SEO.
• Tag Management
  You can tag news and user can get news having specific tags using search.
• Comment Management
  Customers can share their thoughts by commenting on news/articles. The admin can set auto-approval for the comments or show comments only after the admin's approval. The Captcha feature is there to prevent spammers. Besides, that admin can enable social comments like Facebook, Google, or Disqus.
• Archive Management
  Show your news by year and month published.
• Related Products Management
  Select related products, to show on the news page which helps to get more traffic on the product page. On the product page, it is possible to show related news too.
• SEO Optimizations
  Set SEO-friendly URL, meta title, meta keywords, and meta description per news/article and category. Auto-generation of breadcrumb for all the pages.
• Social Media
  Let your customers share your news on social media and let more customers visit your store.
• View Counts
  On-grid page/list page view count for each news article is shown.
• Display Management 
• Choose the layout for the list page and detail page right from the admin.
• Allow viewing changes before publishing them.
• Grid/list news arrangement.
• Position widgets (categories, latest posts, archive, search ) on the left/right sidebar, any CMS block, or any CMS block page
• Content Management
• Image management.
• WYSIWYG editor for HTML management.

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS

• Add news with a short description and long description.
• Add an Image to an article with fast loading and auto-resize feature.
• Allow previewing changes before publishing.
• Choose grid/list for news listing.
• Category management with category-wise news listing.
• News tagging feature and search news by tag.
• Multistore support to have multilingual news or enable/disable news per store.
• Comment management with approval, captcha, and email notification feature.
• Social media comment integration like Facebook, Google, and Disqus comments.
• Show related products per news.
• Show related news per news/article.
• Display the latest/popular news via a widget.
• Archive widget.
• Search news by keyword, tag, title, or description.
• Meta title, meta keywords, and meta description per news and category with breadcrumb support to get maximum search engine visibility.
• Social sharing buttons on each news/article.

FAQ

Question: - Can I create separate categories?
Answer: - Yes, you can create separate categories as per your requirement for example newspaper, magazine, digital media, etc. There is no limit to creating categories.

Question: - Do the articles SEO friendly?
Answer: - Yes, articles are SEO friendly, you can add meta titles, meta keywords, and meta descriptions.

Question: - Can I mention the source information?
Answer: - Yes, You can add source information in the article which will show on the front.

Question: - Can this extension work as the blog on my website?
Answer: - Yes, you can use this module as the blog on your website.

Question: - Can I run this on my staging or development site, too?
Answer: - Yes, you can use this module for your staging or development website.