Monthly Archives: February 2020

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. 

The following steps to enable the Magefan blog comments reCaptcha:

1. Make sure you have the Magento 2 Blog Extension reCaptcha installed on your Magento Instance.

2. Navigate to Stores > Configuration > Security > Google reCaptcha and find Frontend section there.

3. Enable Blog Comments reCaptcha in the Use in Magefan Blog Comments field.

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

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/Blog

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

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 that allows selecting different languages.

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

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

Update using composer

If the WebP optimized 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 Optimized Images 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.