How to Add the Tagging Function to CMS Made Simple Modules Part 2

Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:35 Written by Nic Bug Monday, 11 June 2012 12:00

In Part 1 we have learned how to assign multiple keywords (tags) to entries of CGBlog Module. Now I want to show you how to retrieve these tags in order to make them visible and clickable in the frontend and browse our entries by them.

We need a new “Summary Template” in CGBlog Module. Call it as you want like “Tag-Summary” and insert the following code (major code is just copied from sample):

How to Add the Tagging Function to CMS Made Simple Modules Part 1

Last Updated on Friday, 30 November 2012 06:15 Written by Nic Bug Wednesday, 6 June 2012 12:00

Tagging is a common and well known feature in Blog Software like WordPress. But unfortunately, it is missing in CMS Made Simple. In this article, I will show you how to add the feature into any module. You can see it in action here.

To understand how it works, I take CGBlog as our desired module in this case. I split the tutorial in two parts because we need new functions in the backend to let the author enter some keywords (tags) and we need the frontend management of the tags. Let’s start with the backend configuration.

Install CGBlog and dependencies first. Then go to CGBlog and add a new “Field Definition”.

SEO Content Basics for Small Business

Last Updated on Thursday, 12 April 2012 09:43 Written by Christine Chung Thursday, 12 April 2012 12:00

Small Business owners can implement a few SEO content best practices to help improve their website’s visibility. Selecting relevant keywords and leveraging them in your content can mean the difference between ranking on page one of Google or buried in results past page three. Multiple studies have shown that searchers rarely navigate past page one and two.

How do you know which keywords to use? Where do you find them? How do you use them?

First begin by asking yourself who needs the services you offer. Next begin keyword research, leveraging Google Adwords Keyword Tool and Google Insights for Search. In order to know which keywords to target, it’s essential to not only understand the demand for a given term or phrase, but the work required to achieve those rankings.

Once you identify terms to target, implement the following SEO best practices for content optimization.

How to Put Your CMSMS Metatags on Autopilot

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 July 2011 08:50 Written by Goran Ilic Wednesday, 27 July 2011 12:00

What i love about CMS Made Simple and Smarty Templating engine is that many issues can be solved with very little effort.
As we all know, maintaining a website can sometimes become fairly painful and time consuming. This can also involve setting and maintaining Meta tags.

Some of you probably know there are SEOTools modules or Autometa plugins that can help in these terms, but as I am not a big fan of using modules when there is no real need for it, I want to show you how easy it is to setup automated Meta tags with nothing but Smarty and our content.