Hot news! Today the new version of one of the most downloaded modules in Magento Connect – Blog Extension by aheadWorks – has been released. And what is more notable, the features YOU were asking for in our Forum have been implemented:

• Switchable categories ID in blog post URL
  If you consider categories ID unnecessary for blog post URL and they are not good for SEO, enable them and the problem is solved!
• Switchable menu categories
  Don’t want the blog categories to be displayed in menu? Just one click and the categories are enabled!

The following bugs have been fixed in this version:

• SQL error while retrieving posts for store on frontend fixed
• Post is accessible from inaccessible store fixed
• Hardcoded labels
• Sitemap containing posts from other stores was generated for store

You can find more information about this free aheadWorks extension on the Blog page.

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Major updates:
+ added parsing CMS tags functionality. This function is experimental and can be switched off at backoffice
* fixed google sitemap
* skipped evil .13 release

Closed community requests/bug reports:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/47454/
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/54069/
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/49668/
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/49191/
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/52141/
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/48217/
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/48176/
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/54028/
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/52978/
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/52978/
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/51476/

Find more information on the extension page

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Due to the lack of activity in this highly demanded extension development, aheadWorks has agreed with the owner and previous developer lazzymonk on moving the ownership rights to our company.

We are already well known in modules development sphere and decided to take our chance to make a valuable contribution to the community.

So we must answer the first question that could arise immediately – yes, the extension continues to be free and open source despite it changes its license and owner.

We’ll try to dedicate more efforts to the development to make this extension better and better and satisfy growing needs of the community.

Compatibility

Sure, we made the new version compatible with the previous one. It doesn’t delete any information, everything from your old blog will be integrated. To ensure proper migration please refer to the upgrade instructions and follow them thoroughly.

What’s in the new release?

• Last Magento version compatibility
• Switchable WYSIWYG
• Excerpt field
• Tags added
• Tags cloud block added
• If user is logged in comment fields are pre-filled
• Ability to show blog menu only on blog page
• Settings menu shortcut
• Add post menu shortcut
• .htm rewrite added to post link
• This is not a beta – the release is stable and for live stores use

Extension page: http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/free-stuff/blog.html

P.S. In fact this is a pre-release. We will submit new version to magento connect next week.

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