Blog Pro for Magento 1

Responsive template design

Responsive Magento blog design lets store visitors read posts on all types of gadgets. Due to the convenient off-canvas menu, they will be able to easily use blog search option as well as to take advantage of numerous blog widgets.

Informative widgets

Handy widgets will help you draw customers’ attention to useful information about your blog on Magento and store items. Choose as many different widget blocks as you need and place them in different places on the blog pages.

Layout constructor

Flexible Magento 1 Blog extension settings allow you to arrange desktop and mobile blog posts according to your specific needs. Use the constructor option to arrange blocks on the main blog page as well as on blog post pages. You can drag, add, delete, and interchange the position of the blocks. The layouts for mobile version are defined in the same way.

Custom blog layout

When editing the layout of the main Magento blog pro page choose either "List" or "Grid" layout type. In case you select the "Grid" type, you can also specify the grid width for each particular post.

Manage tags display

Use attractive 3D cloud of tags on blog post pages. Customize cloud display by specifying its:

• Size;
• Color Scheme;
• Text Color;

Customize 'Recent Posts' block

Blog for Magento allows you to specify how many recent posts you want to add to the block and choose whether to display short content for each post. You can also define the maximal number of characters allowed for a short post.

Handy WYSIWYG Editor

Blog Pro extension lets you keep all necessary tools at hand to quickly edit any blog post you need. The intuitive dashboard, dressed in clear icons, will help you enrich your text content with an accurate table or a list.

Fast image upload

It’s difficult to imagine a good blog post without images. Blog Pro extension allows uploading pictures in different ways:

• Upload images through the AJAX window;
• Select them from the images uploaded for previous posts;
• Use ‘drag-and-drop’ option.

Why your blog should be responsive? See here.

Effective Comments Management

No blog is alive without customer feedback. Due to comments you can gather priceless information about your customers and potential clients. The Blog Pro tool enables you to easily edit all comments and reply to customers right from the admin panel. You can also use the ‘auto- approve’ feature to automatically approve all new comments.

Set any blog author as default

This feature is very useful for those who have one major blog writer and doesn’t need to specify a new author for each blog article. Apart from that, you can also enable links to the author’s account pages in such social networks as Google+, Facebook and Twitter.

SEO optimization

A well thought-out content optimization will definitely improve your positions in search results, thus attracting more potential customers. With the advanced blog Magento editor you can specify meta titles, keywords and descriptions for the whole blog, each particular blog post, category or a blog post tag. You can also add blog content (posts, categories, archives, tags) to the sitemap and create special SEO-friendly URLs for each blog post.

Manage search settings

It’s possible to define which type of search should be used in your store's blog.

Here are the options you can choose from:

• Built-in search engine is preselected by default. It’s a resourceful but powerful solution; offers synonyms to the customer’s search request;
• Fulltext Search uses MYSQL algorithms; corrects typos automatically;
• MySQL LIKE Search is the fastest type of search that works with the exact matches. If visitors are mostly searching your store for particular models, this type of search would be the most suitable.