Connected Business eCommerce now allows you to create and maintain your own blog in your webstore pages! Simply follow these steps to install blog to your site:
Setup Blog Engine Website:
- Go to CB Installation > CBEBlogEngine folder
- Unzip CBEBlogEngine.zip
- Locate the Web folder from the unzipped files and deploy to IIS
- Browse the blog engine website
- Navigate to blog engine admin (e.g. yourblogsite/admin)
- Login using username = "admin" and password = "admin"
- Change password
Hook up Blog Engine to CBE's blog page:
- Go to cbe web manager (https://cbe.com/webmanager)
- Login with any valid account
- Click on Configuration > Settings
- Search "BlogEngine.Url"
- Set config value with deployed blog engine url e.g. https://blogenginesample.com
- Search "BlogEngine.Enabled"
- Set the config value to "true"
- Go to CBE's blog page e.g. https://cbe.com/blog.aspx and view your blog in either default view or timeline view.