Monthly Archives: October 2017

Mari Skula - 3 min read

Manage Blog Link in Magento 2 Top Navigation Menu

Once you start a blog on your store, one of the first things to do is to promote it across your website. You can add blog posts to homepage, add related posts to product pages or try some other way. But the simplest of all is to add a blog link to the Magento navigation menu.

That's what you'll learn to do with the Magento 2 Blog. Since the process differs depending on the theme you use, we'll describe a few different cases.

Add/Remove Blog Link from Magento Navigation Menu

Navigate to the Stores > Configuration > Magefan Extensions > Blog and find the Category Top Navigation section.
Choose whether to Display Blog Link in a corresponding select box.
Add the Link Text that will be displayed on the frontend.
Select whether to Include Blog Categories in the menu and specify the Maximal Depth of the subcategory levels.

Note: you can define whether to include a blog category in a menu directly on the blog category page.

Don't forget to Save the settings once you finish and check

Mari Skula - 2 min read

How to Configure Blog Homepage?

Magento 2 blog index page or blog homepage is the first blog page your readers land on. So, you should configure it in a way that makes their navigation through your blog as seamless as possible. However, it should also be optimized for SEO to drive clicks from search.

In this article, we'll cover both to help you configure your Magento 2 blog homepage.

To manage blog homepage in Magento 2 Blog Extension, navigate to Stores > Configuration > Magefan Extensions > Blog and find Blog Index Page section.

Title and Description

Enter the Title of the blog homepage and set the description that will be displayed on the frontend.

Display Mode

Choose a Display Mode to define how posts will be displayed on the blog index page. You can select Recent Blog Posts, Featured Blog Posts or simply leave it Blank if you want to build custom blog homepage with widgets.

Note: if you choose to display the featured posts on blog index page set the post IDs. If you choose to leave it blank you need to create CMS

Mari Skula - 3 min read

Manage Magento 2 Blog Permalink Settings

Your store position in Google or other search engines depends on your SEO strategy. There are a lot of factors SEO is based on and even more things that depend on SEO, website traffic in particular.

Magento 2 Blog is one of the best ways to drive more traffic to your website. So we added the best SEO practices to our Blog Extension to make your blog pages rank.

And in this article, you're going to learn about blog permalink settings — SEO-friendly blog URLs.