Monthly Archives: February 2020

Social media is a powerful platform that generates tons of information throughout the world every day. That is why such networks as Facebook and Twitter are commonly used for marketing purposes by a lot of stores. It allows them to attract more attention to their content and correspondingly drive more traffic to their websites with the help of Open Graph tags.

However, sometimes it happens that Facebook OG tags aren't working as they are supposed to. Instead of a great featured image and newly written title and description, you see the outdated information or don't see anything at all.

If you're wondering what could possibly cause Facebook to pull out the wrong OG data instead of the up-to-date one the answer is pretty simple. Facebook Open Graph Cache. So, in order to make sure Facebook shows the proper Open Graph Information you just need to clear the Facebook cache.

Follow these steps to clear Facebook Open Graph

Hello there Magento fans!

Are you eager to learn about some news and updates we've have prepared for you this month?

In case you want to prevent scammers in your Magefan blog comments, protect your website and personal data and improve security in general you can use reCaptcha. 

Following steps to enable the Magefan blog comments reCaptcha:

1. Install the Magento 2 Blog Comments reCaptcha extension.

Today (Feb 12, 2020) we have been notified about a potential security issue in our Magento 2 Login as Customer Extension thanks to Daniel Sloof's tweet.

Reviewing the code and communicating with Derrick Heesbeen, Lewis Voncken from experius.nl there was found the security issue.

Note that, no confirmed

If you decided to remove Magento 2 Translation 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

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

app/code/Magefan/Translation

then remove this folder.

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

vendor/magefan/module-translation

then run composer CLI command to remove it

composer remove magefan/module-translation

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

Update using composer (Method 1)

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

composer remove magefan/module-translation
composer require magefan/module-translation ^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 Translation Extension by Magefan, please use one of these installation methods.

Installation Method 1 - Installing via Composer (recommended)

1. Open command line
2. Using command "cd" navigate to your Magento 2 root directory
3. Run CLI commands:

composer require magefan/module-translation
# Authentication required (repo.magento.com)
# Get your Magento Marketplace authentication keys or use these: 
# Username: 7c018006799466c681ad507e27904677
# Password: 289077c86e811661a8f7751828485d3a
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:di:compile
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy 

There are different reasons you would want to remove the currency switcher dropdown from Magento 2 storefront.

For example, you may want to remove it because you use Magento 2 Automatic Currency Switcher and don't want to allow customers to manually change a currency.

In order to remove the currency switcher dropdown follow these steps:

1. Create a new file inside your storefront theme folder:

app/design/frontend/ThemeVendor/ThemeName/Magento_Theme/layout/default.xml

2. Add this code into it:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page

There are cases when you want to remove the language switcher dropdown from the storefront.

For example, you may want to remove it because you use Magento 2 Automatic Language Switcher and don't want to allow customers to manually change a store view.

It is an easy task to do. Please follow these simple steps:

1. Create a new file inside your storefront theme folder:

app/design/frontend/ThemeVendor/ThemeName/Magento_Theme/layout/default.xml

2. Add this code into it:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

Image Optimization is one of the first steps you have to take to improve your website performance. And the best way to do that is the new WebP format developed by Google. WebP Images are smaller in size and correspondingly take less time to load. 

In case you want to boost the performance of your store you should consider Magento 2 WebP Images Extension. In this article, you are going to learn how to configure it.

Take the following steps to configure Magento 2 WebP Images extension:

1. Navigate to Stores > Configuration > Magefan Extensions > WebP Images.

2. Enable the extension.

3. Set the Image Quality (1-100). Note: the higher the value you set, the better the quality. However, the size of top-quality images is bigger.

4. Choose WebP Generation

If you decided to remove Magento 2 WebP Images 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 WebP images extension has been installed.

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

app/code/Magefan/WebP

then remove this folder.

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

vendor/magefan/module-webp

then run composer CLI command to remove it

composer remove magefan/module-webp

If you need to update Magento 2 WebP Images Extension by Magefan, please follow the steps below. Note that the update instructions depend on the method WebP images extension was installed with.

Update using composer (Method 1)

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

composer remove magefan/module-webp
composer require magefan/module-webp ^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 WebP Images Extension by Magefan, please use one of these installation methods.

Attention! if you install the extension on Magento 2.4.0 there is a known issue in Magento 2.4.0 core "Error: main.CRITICAL: Error: Undefined class constant 'XML_PATH_HEADER_TRANSLATE_TITLE'. So before installing the extension please apply this change to your Magento instance. Note that this fix is already present in Magento 2.4.1.

Installation Method 1 - Installing via Composer (recommended)

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