News and Updates

Hi, Magefan customers. And welcome to the newbies of our blog.

The digest of December 2024 news and updates is here!

We're happy to share our latest updates and developments to Magento 2 extensions and Shopify Apps.

Let's start!

Magento 2 Admin Action Log

New features of Magento 2 Admin Action Log Extension!

Features:

• Added a notice showing the last admin's login info, such as the date of login and the admin's IP address. The notice will be displayed after the login.
• Option to track only specific entities.
• Performance improvements.

The latest available version is v 2.2.1

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Magento 2 Blog Extension

New features of Magento 2 Blog Extension!

Features:

• Added Meta Robots Options to Blog Post, Categories, and Authors (Blog Tags already have this option).
• Added the customer group identifier to the sidebar category tree cache key information.
• Updated package magefan/module-wysiwyg-advanced to 2.0.16, to enable TinyMCE7 support.
• Fixed error Invalid argument supplied for

2025 is almost here and it thrills us with new opportunities and hopes. Yet, we would also like to acknowledge this year's achievements we have been working on.

So, before the clock strikes midnight, let us take you through the key moments of Magefan's 2024 journey. 

Team

Starting with the most important part of Magefan - the team. This year we welcomed 2 new members to our Magefan family.

Also, one of our colleagues went to serve in Ukrainian Armed Forces to defend our country’s freedom and peace from russian invasion. The entire team and his workplace await his return back to the Magefan office.

Meet Magento Events

Magefan was happy to be among the sponsors of many great Meet Magento events in 2024. Here they are: Meet Magento India, Meet Magento Romania, Meet Magento UK and last but not least - Meet Magento Netherlands.

 Supporting the events within the Magento ecosystem is an honour to our company and a way to support the development of the platform itself.

New Extension Releases

Hi, Magefan customers. And welcome to the newbies of our blog.

The News & Updates digest of November 2024 is here!

We're happy to share our latest updates and developments to Magento 2 extensions and Shopify Apps.

Let's start!

Magento 2 Translation Extension

New features of Magento 2 Translation Extension!

Features:

• Added the "Flush Cache On Translation Change" option. When enabled the translation cache is automatically flushed (on adding/editing translations). When disabled the translation cache is marked as invalid correspodingly (Plus & Extra)
• Added the "Ignore GWS Permissions On Translation Grid" option. It allows you to ignore GWS permissions (Plus & Extra).

The latest available version is v 2.3.5

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Magento 2 Rich Snippets Extension

New features of Magento 2 Rich Snippets Extension!

Features:

• Now the Microdata value (HTML attributes and tags) is set as default for the Structured Data Type option for the FAQ widget.
• Now it is allowed to use PRE HTML tag

Hi, Magefan customers and welcome to the newbies of our blog.

The News & Updates digest of October 2024 is here!

We're happy to share with you our latest updates and developments to Magento 2 extensions and Shopify Apps.

Let's start!

Magento 2 Translation Extension

New features of Magento 2 Translation Extension!

Features:

• Security improvements. Now Magento SecureRenderer is used to whitelist an inline script.
• Minor code improvements.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with the URL key translation.
• Fixed JavaScript error in the admin panel on product and category edit pages when HTML minification is enabled. The error was in the extension version 2.3.2 only.

The latest available version is v 2.3.3

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Magento 2 Google Indexing API

New features of Magento 2 Google Indexing API Extension!

Features:

• Extension performance optimization.

Fixes:

• Fixed an error: Call to a member function getType() on null in Model/Requester.php:145.

The latest available version is v 2.2.1

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Hi, Magefan customers and welcome to the newbies of our blog.

September 2024 News & Updates digest is here!

The first month of the autumn 2024 has brought us amazing updates to our Magento 2 extensions and Shopify Apps that most of our customers have been waiting for.

Happy reading!

Magento 2 Blog Extension

New features of Magento 2 Blog Extension!

Features:

• Added option to create a blog post and featured image using AI (ChatGPT) (Blog Extra).
• Improved blog import from Google Blogger via CSV import (Blog Extra).
• Improved redirects on URL key change (Blog Plus and Extra).
• Added image to blog category and tag (Blog Plus and Extra).
• Added category and tag images to the category grid and tags in the admin panel.
• Added post Image to the post grid in the admin panel.
• Product Widget extension has been updated to version 2.0.14.
• Added information about the co-author to all templates for the post list.
• Added LinkedIn share button.
• Added an option to define what social network is available in

Hi, Magefan customers. Welcome to the newbies of our blog.

August 2024 News & Updates digest is here!

Hot summer 2024 will be over in one day and we'd like to share our August updates to Magento 2 extensions and Shopify Apps.

Enjoy last summer days and this article!

Magento 2 WebP Images Extension

New features of Magento 2 WebP Images Extension!

Features:

• Added an option allowing to upload images in .webp format via REST API. (Plus).
• Added compatibility with Magento 2.4.7 (Plus).

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with uploading WebP images on production mode (Plus).

The latest available version is v 2.3.12

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Magento 2 Extended Product Grid

New features of Magento 2 Extended Product Grid!

Features:

• Performed significant speed and performance improvements.
• Significantly improved mass product update via grid inline editing.
• Added compatibility with Fusedship.
• Code refactoring has been made.

The latest available version is v 2.2.0

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Magento 2 Blog Extension

New

Hi, Magefan customers. Welcome to the newbies of our blog.

July 2024 News & Updates digest is here!

We'd like to share our latest developments and updates to Magento 2 extensions and Shopify Apps that we worked on this July.

Happy reading! 

Magento 2 SEO Extension

New features of Magento 2 SEO Extension!

Features:

• Added new option "Use Store Code in Default Store View Homepage Canonical".
• Updated Rich Snippets to v2.0.16 (SEO Plus & Extra)
• Updated Hreflang Tags to v2.2.7 (SEO Extra).

The latest available version is v 2.5.1

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Magento 2 Rich Snippets Extension

New features of Magento 2 Rich Snippets Extension!

Features:

• Added Organization Schema Markup Widget.
• Minor code improvements

The latest available version is v 2.0.16

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Magento 2 Translation Extension

New features of Magento 2 Translation Extension!

Features:

• The Admin Gws on Magento Enterprise is now not applied to the translations grid. This allows merchants to create users for translations,

Hi, the Magefan customers and welcome to the newbies of our Magefan blog.

June 2024 News & Updates digest is here!

The hot summer is in full swing! So it's about time we shared even hotter updates to our Magento 2 extensions and Shopify Apps. Let's get right to them!

Magento 2 Google Tag Manager Extension

New features of Magento 2 Google Tag Manager Extension!

Features:

• Improved Data Layer Values and JSON Container file for Google Ads Remarketing (GTM Plus and Extra).
• Security improvements. Use Magento SecureRenderer to whitelist an inline script.
• Rearranged extension config. Removed the "Server Side Tracking" section and moved the options to the "Server Container" section.
• Added an option to disable purchase event (Order creating) in the admin panel (GTM Extra).
• Added ability to track first visit and session start, session count in Server Side Tracking via GTM Server Container (GTM Extra).
• Improved the Server Container (Server Side tracking) for Google Ads.

Fixes:

• Fixed the JS

Hi, the Magefan customers and welcome to the newbies of our Magefan blog.

May 2024 News & Updates digest is here!

We've been working hard this month to release the best updates to our Magento 2 extensions and Shopify Apps.  So, check them out!

Magento 2 Google Tag Manager Extension

New features of Magento 2 Google Tag Manager Extension!

Features:

• Improved GTM Server Container Performance (GTM Extra).
• Added server container debug preview (GTM Extra).
• Minor code improvements.

The latest available version is v 2.5.7

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Magento 2 Google Shopping Feed Extension

New features of Magento 2 Google Shopping Feed Extension!

Features:

• Added the "Last Update Time" near the generated feed.
• Added the ability to add the same multiple attributes to the feed.
• Added the ability to use special_price in feed.
• Added all images except the Image Link (image_link) attribute to feed.

Fixes:

• Fixed stock issue.
• Fixed the issue related to non-printed symbols like <0xa0> in content.

The latest

Hi, the Magefan customers and welcome to the newbies of our Magefan blog.

April 2024 News & Updates digest is here!

Our whole team has been working all month on new product releases and updates to our Magento 2 extensions and Shopify Apps.

Here is what we have for the end of this quite productive month. Happy reading!

Magento 2 Blog Extension

New features of Magento 2 Blog Extension!

Features:

• Added the reading_progress_bar on the blog post page (Blog Extra). 
• Option to group blog post archives not only "by Month and Year", but also "by Year".
• Added Article rich snippet in addition to BlogPosting and NewsArticle.
• Blog performance (speed) improvements.
• Improved blog post images in the sitemap XML.
• Improved the pt_BR locale.
• Removed the "Publish Posts On Facebook (Blog+)" option. It is deprecated now.
• Improved blog import from Mageplaza.
• Minor code improvements.

Fixes:

• Minor errors on PHP8. 
• Fixed the issue with the meta description being duplicated on the pagination pages.

Since we've started using the PayProGlobal reseller, all our extensions need to be purchased using the PayProGlocal checkout. One thing that sometimes confuses is the tax. 

So here we'll explain how it works to unveil any doubts you might have.

Why am I asked to pay VAT/Tax?

After you land on our checkout page you can see the VAT/tax total before submitting an order. That's because you need to be eligible for taxation. 

I've entered my VAT and I am still asked to pay VAT 20%

Sometimes you might enter your VAT number and still see the VAT (20%) on checkout. Most often it happens with the UK VAT numbers.

All B2B orders from the UK go through a company registered in the United Kingdom, namely PayPro Europe Limited.

Thus, according to the established rules, our reseller (PayPro Europe as a UK-based company) is obliged to charge tax from you (also a UK company), since such a sale is considered a domestic B2B sale and

Hi, the Magefan customers and welcome to the newbies of our Magefan blog.

The first News digest of spring 2024 is here!

This month was as usual full of new features and ideas that we gladly added to our Magento 2 extensions and Shopify Apps.

So now it's your turn to check and decide what feature is your favourite!

Magento 2 Google Tag Manager Extension

New features of Magento 2 Google Tag Manager Extension!

Features:

• Improved Google Consent Mode.
• Added new "Load GTM Script Before Consent" option for default Magento cookie restriction setting.
• Improved JSON file export.
• Added tracking of the refund event (GTM EXtra).

The latest available version is v 2.5.4

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Shopify Blog App

New features of Shopify Blog App!

Features:

• Received "Built for Shopify" Achievement! This means our Shopify Blog App meets Shopify's highest quality standards for speed, ease of use, and merchant value 
• Added ability to change /a/ in the blog path to apps/tools/community. e.g. myshopify.store.com/tools/blog/post-path

Hi, the Magefan customers and welcome to the newbies of our Magefan blog, 

Today we're happy to share our latest developments we've been working on all February 2024.

So, here is what we'd like to share with you!

Magento 2 Blog Extension

New features of Magento 2 Blog Extension!

Features:

• Added the co-authoring feature. Now you can select multiple authors for the same post. (Blog Extra).
• Added option to create automatic 301 redirects on a blog post, category, tag URL Key change (Blog Plus & Extra)
• Ability to reply to a blog comment directly from the admin panel.
• Added option to set a description for the blog homepage.
• Added option to set average reading time for a post.
• Added an option to add custom CSS in the blog settings (in the admin panel).
• Added NewsArticle rich snippet in addition to Blog Posting. Now there is a new "Rich Snippet / Structured Data" option for each post.
• Improved Author Rich Snippet on the author page (Blog Extra).
• Included the blog post featured image and gallery

February 24, 2022 marks 2 years or 731 days of full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine…

However, the russian hybrid war began 10 years ago on February 20, 2014. It all started with the Crimea occupation by russia in 2014. Then the russian army invaded other parts of Ukraine - Donetsk and Luhansk regions. 

Today, we’d like to remind ourselves and the world: why our lives have split into “before” and “after” since February 24, 2022.

We understand that the world news has slightly switched from the russian full-scale war in Ukraine to other important topics. However, the war in Ukraine is still not over...

Our day doesn't begin with a cup of coffee or tea. Every day begins with reading news of the latest missile attacks and how many people died (these attacks have been ongoing from day one of this war). 

Every day at 9 a.m. we have a moment of silence to commemorate those who have been killed in the russian war against Ukraine.

In this article, we recalled the biggest, heartbreaking events

Hi, the Magefan customers and welcome the newbies of our Magefan blog, 

We're happy to share our latest news and product updates of this January. Since we've already published January updates at the beginning of the month, we're happy to share another portion of the product releases our team has been working on this month.

Magento 2 Google Tag Manager Extension

New features of Magento 2 Google Tag Manager & GA4!

Features:

• Added compatibility with the Google Tag Manager Server Container (GTM Extra).
• Option to use GTM Server Container or GA4 Measurement Protocol to track only missing purchase transactions (GTM Extra).
• Option to define Google Ads Tag ID (GTM Plus).
• Code Refactor.

The latest available version is v 2.5.0

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Magento 2 POS

New features of Magento 2 POS | Point of Sale System!

Features:

• Simplified the installation process for the POS system, eliminating the need for "pos" in the "pub" folder.
• Enhanced cash operations functionality, requiring comments

Hello,

We're happy you're reading our first 2024 News and Updates digest. So let us engage you with the new powerful features of our Magento 2 extensions and Shopify App that have been added in the previous and this month.

Magento 2 POS

New features of Magento 2 POS | Point of Sale System!

Features:

• Enhanced user experience by adding the out-of-stock message for products with the "Stock Status" option set to "out of stock".
• Cashiers now can check available quantities from all sources, not limited to the current store location (POS Extra).
• Improved the display time and readability of flash messages for a more user-friendly interface.
• Optimized checkout process.
• The order number is now transmitted to Stripe payments in metadata (POS Extra).
• Enhanced image optimization.

Fixes:

• Resolved the issue where the shipping method was missing during the checkout process.
• Addressed the problem where checkout with products from different sources resulted in an error.
• Fixed a session management issue

Hello, dear friends, 

On the last day of autumn 2023, we'd like to share our monthly digest of news and updates. This month was traditionally full of new releases and some of the M2 extensions have been enhanced by a really big number of great features.

Also, we'd like to mention that this Black Friday & Cyber Monday Sale is almost over.

However, you have 1 last day to save up to 30% on our Magento 2 extensions.

Magento 2 SEO Extension

New features of Magento 2 SEO Extension (Plus & Extra versions)!

SEO Rule and SEO Crosslink moved to SEO Extra. If you bought an SEO extension before 16.11.2023, please contact us to get your free SEO Extra license

Features:

• Added new type "Specific Page" in SEO rules (SEO Extra)
• Create 301 redirects on the removed product, category, and CMS Page
• The canonical tag may be added in the SEO Rule for a specific page, category, or product (SEO Extra)
• Remove Index.php from URL
• Redirect the Home Page to the canonical

The latest available version is v 2.4.0.

See

Hello, dear friends, 

Thank you for reading our blog and choosing our e-commerce extensions and services!

For those reading our blog for the first time - welcome to the Magefan blog community. We promise you'll find lots of useful information on our blog pages. 

So, let's start!

Magento 2 POS

New features of Magento 2 POS System!

Features:

• Implemented the two-factor Authentication with Google Authenticator.

Fixes:

• We resolved an issue where the Sales section displayed a 404-page error.

The latest available version is v 2.3.1.

See all features

Magento 2 WebP Images Extension

New features of Magento 2 WebP Images Extension!

Features:

•  Added the macOS 16.4 compatibility.
• Added WebP Generation Statistic (visible when Cron or Page Load and Cron mode is used).

Fixes:

• Added extended CSS selector to gallery-mixin to work only with Picture tag.

The latest available version is v 2.3.4.

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Better Magento 2 Admin Order Grid

New features of Magento 2 Better Admin Order Grid

Hello, dear friends, 

This September was quite a productive month and we have added loooots of updates. So, today we’d like to tell you about the latest features and improvements we’ve added. We've also reworked the structure of this News & Updates digest for your better convenience. 

Lets start!

Magento 2 Dynamic Category Extension

New features of Magento 2 Dynamic Category Extension!

Features:

•  Added Shop By Brand Functionality.
• Added Shop By Brand List Widget. 
• Added Shop By Brand Slider Widget.
• Ability to show the Brand Logo on the product page and product list.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue when the product Brand Logo always shows on a product page.

The latest available version is v 2.4.1.

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Magento 2 Theme Optimized

New features of Optimized Magento 2 Theme!

Features:

• Improved breadcrumbs, now show only the previous page on mobile.
• Added ability to set product gallery thumbs direction — vertical/horizontal.
• New design for home, product, and category pages.
• Removed

Hello, dear friends, 

We don't believe it but the hot summer of 2023 is almost over.  So, on the last day of August 2023, we'd like to share our hot news and updates.

Magento 2 Blog Extension

New features of the Magento 2 Blog Extension!

XML Sitemap Refactoring. Now blog homepage, blog posts, and categories are included in the general Magento XML Sitemap. If you wish to keep a separate blog sitemap, you can manage it with a separate Blog Sitemap Extension.

We also added an option "Page Pagination Type" in Advanced Permalink Settings that allows to enable ?p=N and  /page/N to default pagination type ?page=N (Blog Plus & Extra). Added an option to display related blog products in the sidebar. Avoid canonical tag duplicates when a canonical tag is added manually via the Layout Update XML field. Improved meta description generation.

In the recent version, we also terminated the russian localization. [With each next russian missile strike on our cities, we lose the ability

Today, on August 24, we mark the 32nd anniversary of Ukrainian renewed independence.

However, again for the past 547 days, we should fight for our freedom and independence.

And today we want to express our gratitude to the Ukrainian Armed Forces who fight for Ukraine and the values of the free world. We are also grateful to all of you who support us with your actions, kind words and donations.

Today there won’t be any loud celebrations in our country. However, there might be loud air raid sirens in Ukrainian cities and villages heard by our children as the war is still not over.

Some of us will spend this day with their loved ones, and some will be on the battlefield missing their loved ones.

And every Ukrainian will be united with one strong feeling — deep gratitude.

With gratitude. Із вдячністю,
The Magefan team

(Ihor, Bohdan, Serhii, Mary, Ihor, Viktoria, Bohdan, Viktor, Denys, Yurii, Andrii, Olena)