Yesterday we started an extension to the BLOG and NEWS module by adding custom categories. This feature will be similar to the WordPress Categories with the difference that you will have quite more control over the "category page" and you can have your custom title, keywords, description and introductory text.

With this feature you will be able to tag your postings and this categories will be displayed on all pages also below the post there will be link for the main category and five similar postings from the same category. This will bring a lot of backlinks and boost interlinking between the posts which was quite needed since currently all blog posts and News posts receive only 2 links ( one from the main page and one from the sitemaps) and this is not advisable for high ranking and causes some pages to be shown as supplemental on Google....

We will also keep blog and news archive at /blog/ and /news/ directory as currently they return 404 NOT FOUND. The issue is a bit weird because we don't have links to that directory and YAHOO Slurp seems to do things on his own and I tracked him down requesting this directory listing. With the category feature you will not receive 404 and this will also fix the other problem of missing posts when they reach the main page display articles count.

This feature should be finished some time today or tomorrow.