Monthly Archives: November 2019

In order to create a new category in Magento 2 follow the steps:

1. Navigate to Catalog > Categories.

Creating a Sale category with all products you have special offers for is one of the best marketing practices. So, how can you manage the Magento 2 sale category? 

You definitely can add or remove all the products from the sale category manually or with the CSV import, but it is really time-consuming. Doing this manual job on a daily or hourly basis you lose your time. Every business has to optimize their processes to move forward.

To automate the catalog management you can use dynamic category rules, but what is it? The dynamic category, judging from its name, is a category that is predetermined to be generated automatically.

In order to enable Magento 2 Dynamic Categories Extension navigate to Stores > Configuration > Magefan Extensions > Dynamic Category.

General Configuration

1. Enable the extension in order to be able to create dynamic categories.

2. Enter the Product Key which you can find in your Magefan Account > My Downloads.

Once you've finished don't forget to press the Save Config button.

Creating dynamic category rules in Magento 2 you make the process of product management easier. According to dynamic category rules your Magento 2 products will be added to the dynamic categories automatically according to certain conditions.

That will allow you to create automatic categories like Brands, Sale, Newly Added, Most Rated, etc. based on different product attributes.

In order to add new dynamic category rule in Magento 2 Dynamic Categories Extension take the following steps:

1. Navigate to Catalog > Dynamic Category > Rules.

If you decided to remove Magento 2 Dynamic Categories Extension by Magefan, please follow the steps below, also you can contact our team for a free consultation in case you have any issues with Magefan's extension.

Remove Extension Files

Removing files instruction depends on a way dynamic categories extension has been installed.

1. If you can find the extension files in the folder

app/code/Magefan/DynamicCategory

then remove this folder.

2. If the extension was installed via the composer and its files located in the folder

vendor/magefan/module-dynamic-category

then run composer CLI command to remove it

composer remove magefan/module-dynamic-category

If you need to update Magento 2 Dynamic Categories Extension by Magefan, please follow the steps below. Note that the update instructions depend on the method dynamic categories extension was installed with.

Update using composer (Method 1)

If the dynamic categories module was installed via the composer (check if vendor/magefan/module-dynamic-category folder exists), then you need to run these simple CLI commands in Magento 2 directory:

composer remove magefan/module-dynamic-category
composer require magefan/module-dynamic-category ^x.x.x
# replace x.x.x with the version you want to use
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:di:compile
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

To install Magento 2 Dynamic Categories Extension by Magefan, please use one of these installation methods.

Installation Method 1 - Installing via Composer (recommended)

Please navigate to your Magefan Account > My Downloads > Install via Composer to get the composer installation instructions.

There are cases when the Magento sidebar is missing and not showing. Most likely this is because of the "sidebar" or "sidebar.additional" container has been removed from your theme layout.

In order to migrate AheadWorks M2 Blog to Magento 2 Blog, you have to install free Magento 2 Blog by Magefan. After that navigate to Admin Panel > Content > Blog > Import and choose the Import from AheadWorks M2.

Blog Import from AheadWorks

Specify M2 database credentials:

1. Set a Database Name and User Name.

2. Set a database user Password.

3. Set a Database server host (location of a database) in Database Host field.

4. Set a Table Prefix if there is one.

5. Specify a Store view the blog

In the era of technological advancement and the extensive reliance on the internet, a lot of merchants constantly look for the most effective ways to improve their Magento 2 security. Even if you're confident your Magento 2 store is 100% secure, there is no harm in taking extra actions to ensure it's protected from any kind of violations. 

Magento 2 experts and professionals work hard to develop some new ways to improve Magento security so that your store and customer data are under no danger. So,  we've gathered the best tips on how you can improve your Magento 2 store security and provide a safe shopping environment for your customers. 

Top 10 tips to Improve Magento 2 Security

1. Magento Security Scan Tool

Configure Magento Security Scan Tool. It's better to prevent the problem from appearing than