Blog Manager blogging platform extension for OpenCart Shoppica theme

Before choosing a blog platform you should analyze what features it needs to have - the ones are most important for you. We've implemented a free standard blog extension for an OpenCart and quickly realized that it lacks the following:

- The author name
- The following "Name" and "email" fields in the comments section
- Notification for the blog administrator when somebody posts a comment
- OpenCart search will work display blog results also

So we tried a lot of different blogger extensions with these requirements in mind but most of them didn't work well with out existent template and needed a lot of work to get integrated with our current site. 

So the one which worked right away with the Shoppica theme  with a minimal configuration was a Blog Manager from Echo Themes. It has a very simple configuration. 

Just one feature I miss - is the ability to have an author profile and ability to sort articles by the author.

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