Opencart Marketplace Blog

After this Market Place Blog box added to your my account page and using this seller can add the category and add posts and can view his/her all posts.

Now if the seller wants to add or update a category, the seller will simply click on the category, a new page will open. Where the seller will find the existing blogs created by him/her.

To edit the existing blog, the seller just needs to select the blog then click on the edit button.

After this from here, the seller can edit the name of the category, select the parent category, set the sort order & can change the status for the category & after making the changes will save the category.

Now if a new category is to be made than in this case, the seller will click on the add button on the blog category page.

After this, a new page will open where the seller can set name for the category, assign a parent category, set sort order & can change the status for the category.

The seller by selecting the blog option can view the list of existing blogs created by him/her or can even create new blogs.

If a seller wants to edit a blog, then by selecting the checkbox, the seller needs to edit the blog.

On the edit page, the seller needs to make changes under the three setting options.

General: Here the seller needs to enter the name of the blog, update the text, enter meta title, description, keywords & edit blog tags.

Data: Here the seller can select a category, select the status, enter SEO URL & can assign products to the blog.

Image gallery:- Here the seller can upload additional blog images if needed.

As the customers want to look for the blogs posted by either sellers or the store owners, for this they just need to click on the MpBlog option placed on the webstore header. As shown in the picture below.

On the MpBlog page, the customer can find the list of all the blogs posted by either sellers or the store owners.

The customer just needs to click on the blog & can easily get through it & find the products associated with it.

Also, the customer can easily share the blog post on their social networks, simply by clicking on the available social networks logos.

The admin of the store can also create layouts for the proper presentation of the blog posts on the webstore.

For this the admin needs to navigate to the Extensions > Extensions > Modules > Marketplace Blog Layouts.

Here, the admin clicks on the add button in order to create a new layout. As shown in the picture below.

From here the admin can easily create a blog layout by filling the fields like:-

• Enter the name for the layout design.
• Add blogs to the layout design.
• Can set the limit of the blogs to be added on the layout.
• Set the width of the layout.
• Set the height of the layout.
• Change the status of the layout i.e can enable or disable it.

After filling the required information the admin will save the layout.

Now to show the layout on the webstore, the admin will navigate to the Design > Layout, then select the page on which the layout needs to be added.

We have created a layout for the home page so the admin will add the same in the home page.

The admin will click on the edit button on the home page 7 will choose the position on the page where the layout needs to be added & save it.

Now on the webstore, the customer can easily find the blogs inside the created layout on the landing page of the webstore. As shown in the snap below.