Hi, Magefan customers. Welcome to the digest of April 2025 news and updates!

We've got exciting news to share about new solutions, features, and improvements of our Magento 2 extensions and Shopify Apps that we developed this month.

There's a lot to discover, so let's get started!


Magento Extensions

NEW Magento 2 Security Extension!

Security is a top priority for every store owner. Still, no matter the measures you take, hackers manage to find the loopholes and threaten your store's safety.

Don't live in fear of malicious attacks. Improve your security efforts and protect your store with our Magento 2 Security extension!

  • Keep an eye on the admin login attempts.
  • Track all changes made in the admin panel.
  • Monitor security vulnerabilities in the extensive checklist.
  • Block bots and fraudulent emails.
  • Get notifications about file changes and more ...

Don't give hackers a chance to jeopardize your store's security. Eliminate all the risks before they can cause you trouble!


New features of the Magento 2 Blog!

General:

  • Updated the YouTube Video Extension to v 2.0.20 (Blog Extra).
  • Improved Blog Rest API errors display.
  • Made the author identifier unique based on the store view (Blog Extra).
  • The Draft Autosave option is now disabled by default.
  • Minor code improvements.

Compatibilities:

  • Post Contents widget compatibility with the Hyva theme (Blog Extra).

The latest available version is v2.12.4


New features of the Google Tag Manager!

General:

  • Improved CSP settings.
  • Improved the related, cross-sell, and up-sell products view tracking. The event is now tracked only when a customer scrolls to these blocks (GTM Plus & Extra).

Features:

  • Related products view tracking on the Magefan Blog post pages (GTM Plus & Extra).
  • Track scroll events with the server side tracking (GTM Extra).
  • Track purchases only for specific order statuses with the server side tracking (GTM Extra).

Compatibilities:

  • Added compatibility with the Hyva Checkout.

The latest available version is v2.6.8


New features of the Product Labels!

General:

  • Dependency updates. Now, the extension requires magefan/module-dynamic-product-attributes v2.1.9.
  • Implemented secure JS scripts rendering for the Hyva template.

Features:

  • New "Redirect URL" option for shape labels.

The latest available version is v2.3.1


New features of the Auto Related Products!

General:

  • Now, products that already exist on the category page are not displayed in the Related Products block.
  • Performance improvements for the rules validation process.
  • Dependency updates. Now, the extension requires magefan/module-dynamic-product-attributes v2.1.9.

The latest available version is v2.4.2


New features of the Dynamic Categories!

Features:

  • Added declarative DB schema. Migrated install/upgrade scripts to the declarative schema.
  • An option to sort attribute values as numeric ones (for attributes with non-numeric values).

Fixes:

  • A minor issue during the rule creation.

Compatibilities:

  • Breeze theme compatibility for the brand widgets.
  • Added compatibility with Magento v.2.4.6-p10.

The latest available version is v2.7.2 


New features of the WebP Images!

Fixes:

  • An issue with the media gallery update after uploading an image (Plus).

The latest available version is v2.5.1


New features of the Language and Store Switcher!

Fixes:

  • Fixed a conflict with the Login As Customer modules.

  • Resolved the issue when the language couldn't be changed manually on the homepage if the website URLs were used without store codes.

The latest available version is v2.0.21


New features of the Extended Product Grid!

General:

  • Mixins are now used only on the Catalog > Products page to prevent potential conflicts with the inline editing in other grids.

The latest available version is v2.3.1


New features of the Admin Email Notifications!

Features:

  • Ability to configure the low stock notifications at the website level.

Fixes

  •  Fixed an error "Class "Zend Mime" not found" by replacing "Zend_Mime" with "Laminas".

The latest available version is v2.3.0


New features of the Dynamic Blocks and Pages!

Features:

  • Added declarative DB schema. Migrated install/upgrade scripts to the declarative schema.

The latest available version is v2.1.8


New features of the Better Checkout!

General:

  • Replaced the setup install data with the setup patch.

Compatibilities:

  • Added compatibility with the SeQura Payments.

The latest available version is v 2.1.1


New features of the YouTube Widget!

General:

  • Changed YouTube embed URLs to www.youtube-nocookie.com to stop using YouTube tracking cookies and improve GDPR and privacy regulations compliance.

The latest available version is v 2.0.20


Shopify Apps

New features of the Blog App!

General:

  • Improved CSV Export/Import. Now, you can export/import related categories, tags, products, and co-authors via CSV (Basic Plan).

Features:

  • LinkedIn social sharing button (Basic Plan).
  • BlueSky social sharing button (Basic Plan).
  • Related Products sidebar widget (Standard Plan).
  • Sort order field for the related posts and products blocks (Standard Plan).
  • An option to create permanent redirects for old blog posts during the Shopify Import (Basic Plan).
  • Related Products widget in the post content (Pro Plan).
  • Search Label option for the Search sidebar widget (Basic Plan).
  • Custom CSS field on the post creation page (Basic Plan).

Fixes:

  • Fixed the issue where the featured images with a file size greater than 2MB were deleted on the post save.


New features of the Login as Customer App!

Features:

  • "mf_lac_logged" cookie value that allows you to detect admin users who logged in as customers (Basic Plan).
  • Temporary emails used for the B2B login are now also reverted in the orders (Pro Plan).

Fixes:

  • Fixed the issue with reverting emails that are already used by other customers.


New features of the Product Feed App!

Features:

  • Added product metafields to the product feed attributes and conditions (Basic Plan).


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