When adding or modifying a product you are presented with the same fields and options.
Article Details
Article Status: If an article is set to “Published” it will be visible on the front end to your visitors. If the status is set to “Unpublished” the article is essentially hidden and will not show up for your visitors.Article Title: The title for your article.URL Slug: This is only important if you are using friendly urls. The url slug is a means to provide a more readable and seo friendly url for the product. For example a standard product url might look something like http://www.mysite.com/?product=1234567890 and if you provide a url slug of widgets/green/myproduct the new friendly url would be http://www.mysite.com/widgets/green/myproduct / - It is recommend to settle on a slug and not change it once set. If you change the slug on an established page then any manually placed links going to the old friendly url would ideally need to be updated.Publish Date: The date the article was published.Main Content: This is where you can add and edit the main content for the article. This can be anything from a simple line of text to a few paragraphs or even more complex content such as embeded images, videos or widgets. If the article is using a page template that has more than one content area specified then additional content areas will be shown here below the main content area. Each content area has it’s own toolbar to allow you to easily format text. If you want to copy and paste content into a content area please bear in mind that the copied content might bring across extra unneeded html code that can bloat or even break your page, to help get around this there are “paste as plain text” and “paste from word” buttons in addition to the normal paste function. For more advanced editing you can click the html button or toggle the editor toolbar off to edit html code directly.Meta Description: This is used mainly to provide search engines with a useful description of the page. Search engines will sometimes use this text when displaying links to the page. Enter one or two sentences with appropriate keywords but don’t just list keywords.Meta Keywords: Comma separate keywords and keyphrases in this field to help search engines index your pages better. SEO wise this is less important than the Meta Description.Categories: Select which categories that you want this article to appear in.
Article Media
Article Image: Use this to upload an image for the article. When the article has been added you can modify it later and add more images. Any images added to the article will be displayed in a gallery on the articles detail page. When modifying an article you can also drag or copy these uploaded images into your content areas and resize them as required.
Article Display Options
Page Template: Select the page template that you want to use for this article. Page templates are typically designed and uploaded by a web developer and they determine the overall design and layout of the page.Related Articles: You can select other articles that are related to this article here and if the page template is setup to show related articles they will be shown.
Advanced Article Settings
Comments: Change this to show or hide submitted comments on this article.Comment Form: Enable this if want to allow people to post comments on your article.Commenting Permissions: Restrict who can submit comments by selecting user groups here. For example you might only want to allow registered users.Comment Moderation: You can choose whether comments have to be approved before being published or just to publish automatically when submitted. Comments can be moderated by going to Messages from the admin menu.
User Group Permissions
Select who can view this article. If you check “Everyone” then anybody can view it. If you check “Registered Users“ then only registered users who are logged in will be able to view it. You can also setup custom user groups and only allow specific users access.