The standard CS-Cart "Pages" are fine for "About us" but not for content marketing: they have no article types, authors, tags or subscription. The add-on turns your store into a place people come to for a review or a guide and leave with a product in the cart: articles link to products directly, and article blocks sit right in the catalog.
5 article types text, gallery, video, event with a date and a place on the map
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10 blocks article lists, categories, tags, archive, search, authors, contents, subscription
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Subscription a consent form and mailing through Extended Email Marketing
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CS-Cart 4.10.1-4.21.1 and Multi-Vendor, every edition, updates via the Add-on Manager
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A buyer of a complex product reads first: compares, studies the specs, looks for a guide. If they read it on your site, they buy on your site. The blog collects traffic for informational queries and sends it to the catalog.
Products inside an article
Catalog products are attached to an article and shown under the text with the price and the "Add to cart" button. |
Articles on the product page
The "Articles about this product" block picks posts by product, category, brand and tags. |
Traffic from search
Meta data of articles and categories is generated, pages go to the sitemap and articles carry Article markup. |
Readers come back
Subscription to new articles, RSS and Yandex feeds remind of the store on their own. |
The type is chosen at creation and can be changed later. A regular article is text with a table of contents built from headings; a gallery is photos with a viewer; a video is a YouTube or Rutube clip or a file from the server; an event has a date, time and address; a place is a point on the map.
Related products are chosen in the article card and shown under the text with the price. The way back exists too: an article block on the product page, in a category or on the home page picks posts by product, category, brand and tags - the editor links nothing by hand.
The subscription form lives in a blog block: e-mail, mandatory consent to personal data processing and a confirmation letter when the mailing list asks for it. New articles go to subscribers with the "New blog article" notification of Extended Email Marketing: one article per run, a pause between letters, no repeats, with statistics of opens and clicks.
What you need
Subscription and mailing work through the "Cart-Power: Extended Email Marketing" add-on version 1.36 or newer. Without it the blog shows the RSS link.
An author has a page with a photo, a job title, a description and the list of articles; in Multi-Vendor a vendor can be an author, and their products are shown on the page. Categories are nested with a list style of their own; tags form a cloud and lead to the tag page with articles.
Articles, categories and authors are under "Website -> Blog". The article card holds the type, the text in the visual editor, categories, tags, products, the image, a gallery or a video, meta data, the publication period, storefronts and user groups.
By default the blog takes the colours of links, text, buttons and borders from the storefront theme style and follows its rounding - nothing to set up. Custom colours and one of the rounding levels are switched on in the colour scheme. Checked on Responsive, UniTheme2 and Nova.
Can I move articles from the standard CS-Cart blog?
Yes, the add-on imports posts of the built-in blog - no retyping.
Will the articles get into search results?
Meta data of categories and articles is generated by your templates, blog pages are included in the sitemap, and with the JSON-LD add-on the articles carry Article markup.
How does the subscription work?
The form in the blog block adds the address to a mailing list of Extended Email Marketing 1.36, and the "New blog article" notification sends the flagged articles on schedule. Without that add-on the blog shows the RSS link.
Can marketplace vendors write the blog?
Yes. In Multi-Vendor a vendor can be an author with a page of their own and a block of their products, and the articles are approved by the administrator.
Will it fit my theme?
Colours and rounding come from the theme style, so the blog looks like the rest of the store. Checked on Responsive, UniTheme2 and Nova.
What happens on update from an earlier version?
Articles, categories, authors and settings are kept, and colours set earlier stay yours. Subscribers of the former built-in mailing are moved to a mailing list when Email Marketing 1.36 is installed or updated.
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1. Гибкая настройка цветовой схемы
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4. Возможность автоматической публикации статьи в ДЗЕН
5. Генерация файла Яндекс Турбо
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Статьи стали более интересные и живые.
Были некоторые вопросы и после обращения поддержка очень быстро помогла решить и дали ценные подсказки!
Очень доволен модулем и поддержкой!
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CS-Cart development · in-house team · since 2013 We build, upgrade and speed up CS-Cart stores and marketplacesAnalysts, developers, designers, QA and support under one roof — no subcontractors. We ship add-ons you can buy on this page today, and we take on the work that no ready-made add-on covers. |
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Everything else we publish improves one screen. These two change the numbers: how customers find products, and how often they come back.
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Add-on · Search & merchandising Smart SearchElasticsearch-powered search for large catalogues. The customer types two letters, sees products with images and prices, and buys from the dropdown — even after a typo or with the wrong keyboard layout. Visitors who use the search bar are 24% of traffic and 44% of revenue, and convert about 2.5× better than people who only browse categories. If search returns nothing, up to 80% of them leave. | ||||||||
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Try it on a live catalogue: open the demo store and search with a deliberate typo. |
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Add-on · Mobile commerce PowerApp — mobile app for your storeA native iOS and Android app running on your CS-Cart data: the same products, prices, stock, promotions, reward points and orders. There is no second catalogue to maintain — everything stays in the admin panel you already use. A mobile site brings a customer in once; an app brings them back for free. Push notifications replace the retargeting budget you spend to buy the same customer a second time. | ||||||||
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Services
Fixed scope, written specification, a named project manager and a warranty on what we ship.
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Custom CS-Cart development Functionality the platform does not have: add-ons, marketplace mechanics, integrations with 1C, CRM, ERP, payment and delivery providers. We start from a written specification, not from an estimate on a phone call. Details → |
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CS-Cart upgrade Move to the current version without losing data, custom code or add-ons. We audit every modification first, upgrade on a staging copy, adapt what breaks and switch over with little or no downtime. Details → |
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Speed and performance optimisation Conversion falls by about 4.4% for every extra second of load time. We profile the server, the database and the front-end, then fix what actually costs the seconds — and show you the before-and-after numbers. Details → |
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Design for CS-Cart Mobile-first storefront design built on CS-Cart's own template structure, so the layout survives the next platform upgrade instead of becoming a migration problem. Details → |
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SEO for CS-Cart A technical audit of indexing, duplicates, redirects, structured data and Core Web Vitals — delivered as a prioritised fix list your developers can act on, or that we implement ourselves. Details → |
How we work
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Before we start We discuss the goal, offer options and write the specification. You approve scope and price before development begins. |
While we build A named project manager reports progress on a fixed schedule. You always know what is in work and what is next. |
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Before release A separate QA pass on every release — the developer who wrote the code is not the person who signs it off. |
After handover Documentation for everything we ship, plus a warranty on the modifications and the project. |
Tell us what the store needs to doDescribe the task in a couple of sentences and we will come back with options, a scope and a price. The consultation is free, and we will say plainly if a ready-made add-on already solves it.
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