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You can install by Magefan, using composer or archive installation methods. Installation via composer (recommended) Please navigate to your Magefan Account > Downloads > Install via Composer to get the composer installation instructions. Installation using archive and FTP Download HTML Sitemap Extension ZIP-Archive from magefan.com website (not GitHub or other sources). Extract files. Copy app folder from the archive to your Magento 2 folder. In a command line, using "cd", navigate to your Magento 2 root directory. Run CLI commands: php bin/magento setup:upgradephp bin/magento setup:di:compilephp bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy Note: if you don't want your website to be down during deployment, try these .

If you decided to remove , please follow the steps below. 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 the way Rich Snippets extension has been installed in. 1. If you can find the extension files in the folder app/code/Magefan/RichSnippets then remove this folder. 2. If the extension was installed via the composer and its files located in the folder vendor/magefan/module-rich-snippets then run composer CLI command to remove it composer remove magefan/module-rich-snippets Once extension files have been removed, run these Magento CLI commands: php bin/magento setup:upgradephp bin/magento setup:di:compilephp bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy Note: if you don't want your website to be down during deployment, try these . Remove Extension Data (optional) Attention! This will clean all Rich Snippets extension configurations. 1. Just in case please make a full backup (dump)ihor

If you need to update by Magefan, please follow the steps below. Note: the updating instructions depend on the method the Rich Snippets extension was installed with. Update using composer If the Rich Snippets module was installed via the composer (check if vendor/magefan/module-rich-snippets folder exists), then you need to run these simple CLI commands in Magento 2 directory: composer remove magefan/module-rich-snippetscomposer require magefan/module-rich-snippets ^x.x.x# replace x.x.x with the version you want to usephp bin/magento setup:upgradephp bin/magento setup:di:compilephp bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy Note: if you don't want your website to be down during deployment, try these . Update using archive and FTP If the Rich Snippets module was installed via FTP (check if app/code/Magefan/RichSnippets folder exists), then follow these commands: 1. Download the latest version of the Rich Snippets extension archive from magefan.com. 2. Extract archive. 3. Make the backupihor

You can install by Magefan, using composer or archive installation methods. Installation via composer (recommended) Please navigate to your Magefan Account > Downloads > Install via Composer to get the composer installation instructions. Installation using archive and FTP Download Rich Snippets Extension ZIP-Archive from magefan.com website (not GitHub or other sources). Extract files. Copy app folder from the archive to your Magento 2 folder. In a command line, using "cd", navigate to your Magento 2 root directory. Run CLI commands: php bin/magento setup:upgradephp bin/magento setup:di:compilephp bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy Note: if you don't want your website to be down during deployment, try these .

If you decided to remove , please follow the steps below. 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 the way SEO extension has been installed in. 1. If you can find the extension files in the folder app/code/Magefan/Seoapp/code/Magefan/SeoPlusapp/code/Magefan/SeoExtra then remove this folder. 2. If the extension was installed via the composer and its files located in the folder vendor/magefan/module-seo then run composer CLI command to remove it composer remove magefan/module-seo* Once extension files have been removed, run these Magento CLI commands: php bin/magento setup:upgradephp bin/magento setup:di:compilephp bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy Note: if you don't want your website to be down during deployment, try these . Remove Extension Data (optional) Attention! This will clean all SEO configurations. 1. Just in case please make a full backup (dump) ofihor

If you need to update by Magefan, please follow the steps below. Note: the updating instructions depend on the method the SEO extension was installed with. Update using composer If the SEO module was installed via the composer (check if vendor/magefan/module-seo folder exists), then you need to run these simple CLI commands in Magento 2 directory: composer remove magefan/module-NAMEcomposer require magefan/module-NAME ^x.x.x# replace NAME with:# seo - for Basic plan# seo-plus - for Plus plan# seo-extra - for Extra plan# replace x.x.x with the version you want to usephp bin/magento setup:upgradephp bin/magento setup:di:compilephp bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy If you want to upgrade to Plus or Extra, check this guide on how to . Update using archive and FTP If the SEO module was installed via FTP (check if app/code/Magefan/Seo folder exists), then follow these commands: 1. Download the latest version of the SEO extension archive from magefan.com. 2. Extract archive. 3. Makeihor

You can install by Magefan, using composer or archive installation methods. Installation via composer (recommended) Please navigate to your Magefan Account > Downloads > Install via Composer to get the composer installation instructions. Installation using archive and FTP Download SEO Extension ZIP-Archive from magefan.com website (not GitHub or other sources). Extract files. Copy app folder from the archive to your Magento 2 folder. In a command line, using "cd", navigate to your Magento 2 root directory. Run CLI commands: php bin/magento setup:upgradephp bin/magento setup:di:compilephp bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy Note: if you don't want your website to be down during deployment, try these . After you install the extension, you can move on to the of your store.

Dear Magefan customers, First of all, we want to say “Thank you!” for such strong support you have shown in your emails. This is very important for us in the darkest times our country has seen since WW2. Many of you asked how to help. So we decided to write a few things you might do to help the Ukrainian people in this war, where a peaceful country should defend its citizens from russian invasion. What can you do to help us stand and keep our lives? 1. Donate to a non-governmental charity fund “Come back alive” that has been supporting our soldiers for 8 years (from the beginning of the Russian invasion in 2014)’ 2. Donate to UNITED24, a global initiative to support Ukraine launched by the Ukrainian authorities.  [When our colleague Elena started writing the previous sentence, there was an air raid siren in Ternopil, it was 23:00. She took her sleeping child and ran to the basement. And during the last 5 days there have been dozens of such alarms and in every city of our country, andihor

Magento 2 XML sitemap is a part of features that contribute to your website ranking. But that's not only that. The Magento sitemap is the main element linking your store with potential customers from search. If search robots can't discover your store, you won't  and the rest of the picture doesn't look good. That's why it is important to understand the concept of Magento XML sitemap better. So, today you'll discover everything you need to know about Magento sitemap, how you can configure and automate it. What is Magento XML Sitemap? Magento XML sitemap, like any XML sitemap, is a file that contains links to all pages of a website. You submit this file to Google Search Console so that search bots can crawl and index your pages, which, correspondingly, are ranked in Google. Products, categories and CMS pages are all included in the Magento XML sitemap. Besides, you can define how often robots should crawl these pages. The only downside is your pages are added to the crawling queue. So youihor

Dear Magefan customers,We want to notify you about the breaches in the working process of our company. Not every day your country is attacked by a crazy Russian dictator. And as many of you know - Russia began a full-scale war against Ukraine.Yesterday our beloved country, our families, our children woke up in a new reality where we started to hear frequent air raid alarms because of the Russian invasion.That is why our office was closed yesterday and will be closed for today and the next few days.We want to inform you that we will do everything we can to make sure our team is safe and to provide you with any possible support in these conditions, although there may be some delays in reply.We believe and hope this war against Ukraine will end soon.Stand with Ukraine! Still with you,The Magefan Team(Ihor, Yuriy, Andriy, Bohdan, Bohdan, Ihor, Serhiy, Viktor, Denys, Mary, Elena)

Since most of your website traffic comes from Google and other search engines, it's essential to make that traffic relevant. Quality of traffic always outweighs quantity. Therefore, even if you receive a lot of traffic, a small part of it really converts.  Google rich snippets, among other practices, are there to help your Magento 2 store generate more targeted traffic and drive quality leads.  Though there are up to 100 structured data markup schemas out there, your eCommerce store needs a minimum of 7 to make it work. If you're new to all of the SEO-related concepts or just start your way to better website traffic, we'll help you get along with Google rich snippets in Magento. Here you'll learn what are rich snippets, why you need them, and what rich snippets you need the most.  What are Rich Snippets? Rich Snippets are small pieces of code also referred to as Structured Data Snippets that help you to pass structured data about the page contents to Google and other searchihor

Once customers land on the Magento checkout page, they expect to go through the order placement process fast and easily. So, it is your job to take care of the Magento checkout options that define the attributes of the checkout page and the layout.  Magento checkout page configurations are relatively simple, as you will see. To configure Magento checkout options: 1. Navigate to Stores > Configuration > Sales > Checkout > Checkout Options. 2. Enable Onepage Checkout as a default format. 3. Allow or disallow to define whether customers will be able to go through the checkout without registration. Note: if you like, you can still after checkout for marketing purposes. 4. Enable Terms and Conditions. 5. Decide where to Display Billing Addresses.  6. Set the Maximum Number of Items to Display in Order Summary. Don't forget to Save Config and go to the checkout page to check the options you've just configured.  Though default Magento checkout functional is enough to satisfy customers'ihor

Shipping is the last step in the order processing pipeline that often requires the most attention. Though Magento offers you a variety of , they are sometimes quite limited, especially when customer location is concerned.  To exceed the default Magento functional and take the most of the shipping options you need a Shipping Extention. There are plenty of modules that allow you to take shipping to the next level and present customers with more shipping options.  However, very often their features differ which makes it hard for your to choose.  Today we'll cover the best for Free Shipping.  Comparison: Best Free Shipping Extensions for Magento Vendor Extension Name Price Guarantees Rating ShipperHQ and WebShopApps MatrixRate Free No guarantees Github module 121 ⭐ 67 forks Advanced Shipping for Magento 2 by Owebia Free No guarantees Github module 90 ⭐ 31 forks Magento 2 Multiple Flat Rates Shipping by Mageplaza Free No guarantees Github module 15⭐ 10 forks Magento 2 Admin Shippingihor

UPS Carrier — United Parcel Service — is a trusted and well-known service that offers international and domestic shipping services by air or land to more than 220 countries.  Correspondingly, except for other , you should definitely check UPS as a delivery option for your customers. However, note that though UPS uses dimensional weight to determine shipping rates, Magento only used weight-based calculation. Today, you're going to learn how to configure UPS carries in Magento step-by-step. 1. Create UPS Shipping Account Navigate to UPS and sign up for an account if you haven't got one yet. Next, you will have to find the Get Started with UPS link under the Customer Service, choose how often you want to ship, and open the payment account.  2. Enable UPS for Magento  Go to Stores > Configuration > Sales > Delivery Methods and Enable UPS for Checkout. For United Parcel Service XML fill out the following: Enter the UPS credentials: Access License Number, User ID, and Password. Specifyihor

Magento 2 Registry is a class that is used to share the data between objects in Magento.  e.g. save the object to the Registry in the controller class and get in the block class. Starting from Magento 2.3 the Registry class was declared as deprecated but a lot of developers, extension vendors, and even Magento core code still use it. How does it work? To get a Registry object in your class you need to define it in the constructor, for example: /*** @var \Magento\Framework\Registry*/private $registry;/*** ...* @param \Magento\Framework\Registry $registry,*/public function __construct(...,\Magento\Framework\Registry $registry,...) {$this->registry = $registry;...} or you can easily get it via the  for the testing purpose: $registry = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance()   ->get(\Magento\Framework\Registry::class); How to SET a new value into the Registry? To set a new value into the register please use the public function register($key, $value, $graceful = false) methodihor

As any error appearing on any website, Magento 2 internal server error 500 influences your customer experience, traffic, and conversions. Though sometimes it can disappear after you reload the page, you should take steps to eliminate it immediately, so it doesn't influence your store traffic for hours. It is one of the most common . So before we get to the solution to fix 500 internal server errors in Magento 2, you should know what it is.  What is Internal Server Error 500 in Magento 2? Magento internal server error is a general HTTP status code that appears when you follow the correct URL or click on a website link and request a page from the server. Something goes wrong and the server can't return the requested page and doesn't know what the issue is.  Since the server doesn't know anything about the issues and displays only Internal Server Error 500, you should access the server error logs and check for more information about this issue. And here are the most common reasonsihor

Effective order management requires you to process a lot of information. The more information you can get from the order grid, the faster you can without having to go to each order separately. However, some information might be missing. And that's when you need to reindex the Magento 2 order grid. When to Reindex Order Grid in Magento?  Sometimes, the actual order data and order data displayed in the grid are different. The billing company name is missing, the shipping address is incomplete or the order is not generated in the grid at all. It confuses the store managers and slows down the process. They are not able to find relevant orders when filtering through them. So, the order fulfilment process becomes inefficient. How to Reindex Magento 2 Order Grid? To reindex the order grid, you need developers who can create a custom solution for you (unless you have some technical knowledge to do that on your own). The simpler solution is to use the . It already comes with the Magento 2 reindexihor

Ratings and reviews are one of the first things customers check when browsing through your catalog. That's why they are an integral part of the strategy. But you can go even further than that and use the Magento 2 sort by rating option to create a category. Intrigued?  Your customers won't need to scroll through the endless catalogue pages comparing reviews and ratings. You will add the most popular products into one "Most rated" category using the tool. Step 1: Create the "Most Rated" Category The first thing you need is to admin just as you've created any other category on your store. We'll call it "Most Rated" since we're going to put products with the highest ratings and reviews there. You can choose any other name you like, as long as it drives customers' attention. Step 2: Set Up Basic Category Rule Information The next step is to that will automatically add products to the "Most Rated" category.  For that go to Catalog > Dynamic Category > Rules and press the Add New Ruleihor

Imagine customer frustration when they browse through your catalogue just to find that the product is out of stock. If you don't display out of stock products in your store, or at least have the set up you're losing conversions. Not speaking about the customer experience.  Luckily there is a solution — Magento 2 out-of-stock notification or . The best thing is that it's a native Magento feature. So, you don't need any third-party integration to enable out-of-stock notifications in Magento. Ready to learn how? Enable Magento 2 Out of Stock Notification for Customers 1. Enable the Display Out of Stock Products option in Stores > Configuration > Catalog > Inventory. 2. Navigate to Stores > Configuration > Catalog > Catalog > Product Alerts and enable the Allow Alert When Product Comes Back in Stock option. You can for stock alerts if the default one doesn't fit your requirements and set the Email Sender. Just enabling this option is enough for the "Notify me when back in stock" notificationihor

One of the main reasons why customers abandon their shopping carts or leave checkout — is forced registration. However, it's not only the data sharing people fear the most. Registration can drag on for multiple steps your customers simply don't have time for. To simplify the registration and logging in you can use social login. It reduces the process down to seconds and allows you to cross out one more point on your customer experience to-do list. As you might have guessed already, social login is not a new concept. Multiple websites use it already. There are multiple solutions for Magento out there, searching through which will require some time. However, we've done all the work for you, so you don't have to. So, here you'll find a review of the best Social Login. Comparison: Best Magento 2 Social Login Extensions Vendor Extension Name Price Guarantees Rating Magento 2 Twitter & Facebook Login Extension by Plumrocket Free 100% Open Code 60 Days Refund Policy 1 Year of Free Updates 1 Yearihor

Hello there, Magento fans! Here is the first news of 2022 and Magefan began this year quite productively. We hope you had a good start to this year too. Let’s go!   New improvements of! We added improvements to the Blog Post Structure Data (Rich Snippets Schema). In the latest version, you can use more than 2 slash characters in post URL keys (Blog Plus & Extra). We have made some minor storefront design improvements. We have also fixed an issue with duplicate authors after import from Amasty Blog extension for Magento 1. Another issue for infinite page refresh loop on search result page when results are not found has been successfully fixed too. New improvements of . We added Coupon Code Widget that works with static and auto-generated coupon codes. Also now you will be happy to find a new option to automatically add some products to a shopping cart on the coupon applying. We also improved the functionality of a coupon code applying.     New feature of Magento 2 Extendedihor