News Manager

[Carlos]

Okay Carlos, I am gonna zip them.

I received your PM.

Post slugs (just like GS normal pages) must only have characters: 0-9 a-z - _

Yours has "%E3%A8", I suppose that because you edited the slug (or the file?) to insert an "è".

To fix this, you can:

- rename the post(s) xml files to remove those "%" characters, leaving only allowed ones (see above).
- use NM to create a new post. The post index (data/other/posts.xml) will be refreshed then.

Now you should be able to delete the renamed posts.

I'll do some tests and fix this for another updated version.

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I just started using plain GS pages and the 18n search to list a blog page
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would love to create a standardized news blog plugin that stored all of its data the same way pages are stored.

Heh, I had started working on something like that (indeed I am using I18N Search for my personal site's small blog), but for several reasons right now something like NM is more convenient to me.

There's also a blog plugin that uses normal GS pages: Pages & Comments

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Minimum SEO with News Manager (and probably other plugins not using normal GS pages for posts, items...) right now requires:

- changing your templates' get_header() to get_header(false).
This way your site won't have the canonical meta tag (all posts have the same canonical url, that of the news page)

- better not having a root sitemap.xml file (GS sitemap hooks are broken since GS 3.1, NM cannot insert its posts in the Sitemap). Install the Remove Sitemap plugin so that it is deleted once is generated.
(This will not be necessary in the future GS 3.2)

- Using something for having the post title in the <title> tag, like this.
(I intend to stuff some function for this to the updated NM, but I may do it with an addon plugin for now)

If you don't do this, your posts may not be indexed by search engines.