Monthly Archives: September 2018

Megnor Blog is a distribution of Magefan Blog. If you use Megnor Blog extension you might want to replace it with the latest version of Magefan Magento 2 blog extension to get new features, security improvements, and bug fixes. The changelog can be found on our website.

To replace Megnor_Blog with Magefan_Blog, please follow the steps below:

1. Make a full backup of your Magento 2 files and Data Base.

2. Rename all Data Base tables that start with 'megnor_blog_...' to 'magefan_blog_...'. E.g. rename "megnor_blog_post" table to "megefan_blog_post". You can use PhpMyAdmin for this purpose.

3. Rename the folder

app/design/frontend/ThemeVendor/theme_name/Megnor_Blog 

to

app/design/frontend/ThemeVendor/theme_name/Megefan_Blog 

4. Remove the folder

app/code/Megnor/Blog

5. Install Magefan Blog Extension.

6. Recreate blog widgets. For homepage widget use custom template "Megefan_Blog::widget/list_home.phtml" in widget settings.

When you run Magento 2 CLI command "bin/magento ..." and get the error:

Allowed memory size of xxxx bytes exhausted (tried to allocate xxx bytes)

You can easily fix it using this command instead of bin/magento:

php -dmemory_limit=-1 bin/magento ....

Magefan.com shop uses the United States dollar (USD) as a base currency. For a customer's convenience prices on the store are displayed in customer's local currencies (e.g. EU members see prices in Euro, British citizens correspondingly in British Pound etc.).

That is why during a payment a total you are charged with is USD. Also, USD amount sends to a bank account. A bank in its turn converts USD amount to customer's currency using own rate.

A bank's rate and a rate specified on our shop could be different. That's why a total customer is charged with can little vary from a total customer see on a Magefan.com product page, but it's always the same amount in USD.

In order to migrate AheadWorks Blog for Magento 1 to Magento 2 Blog please install free Magento 2 Blog extension. After that, navigate to Admin Panel > Content > Blog > Import and choose the Import from AheadWorks M1.

If you have a product attribute and want to assign it to a single attribute set, it's easy to do via Magento 2 Admin Panel > Stores > Attributes > Attribute Set.
But what if you need to assign it to all your attribute sets? What if you have 50+ or ever 100+ attribute sets? It can be time costly.

So what you can do, is to create a simple script that will do all job for you.

1. Create a PHP file "myscript.php" in your Magento 2 root directory.

If you want to make your Magento 2 products attractive when shared you need to configure OG tags for them.

Take the following steps to configure Facebook OG Tags for the product page in Magento 2:

1. Go to Admin Panel > Catalog > Products and choose a product you are interested in.

Following steps to configure Facebook OG Tags for Magento 2 CMS page

1. Go to Admin Panel > Content > Pages.

Configuring Facebook Open Graph tags for Magento 2 category page on your website, you set the OG Title, OG Description and OG Image people would find attractive and worth following.

You can promote your Magento 2 store categories on Facebook or any other social media and drive more traffic to your store through clickable and attention-grabbing posts.

In order to configure OG tags for Magento 2 category page:

1. Go to Admin Panel > Catalog > Categories.

In order to set up base configurations for Magento 2 Open Graph Module please go to Stores > Configuration >  Magefan Extensions > Open Graph.

General

1. Enable an extension choosing correspondingly Yes in Enable Extention select box.

2. In a Default OG Image, you can set Open Graph image by default. The chosen image will be used for a page if it is not redefined, for example in product settings.

3. The Open Graph description can be set by default in a Default OG Description.

The following steps to configure Magento 2 Auto Language Switcher:

1. Go to Stores > Configuration > Magefan Extensions > Auto Language Switcher.

2. Enable the extension.

3. Select the Switcher Mode.

Note: this option allows you to Auto Direct customers to the store view in their local language based on their location or displays the Suggestion Popup for customers to choose the store view manually.

4. Choose whether you want to Share Store View Per Website or to set it to be Global.

Note: If you choose to share store view Per Website then customers will be directed to the store views within one website. However, if you choose Global, customers will be directed to the store views from different websites. 

e.g. You have one website in English, Spanish, German languages, and second website in English, Spanish, French. You set to Share Store View Globally. In case a person from France comes to your first website he/she will be redirected to your second website since there is the french store view.