News and Updates - April 2026

Features:

• New blog category tree grid similar to that of Magento categories.
• Added the ability to display the last modified date on blog posts.
• Enabled adding emojis to the blog content with Magento no lower than v2.4.8.
• Added new private REST API endpoints: /V1/blog//all/:type/:term/:store_id/:page/:limit, which can get the disabled blog entities.

Improvements:

• Reduced the cumulative layout shifts (CLS). Added width and height attributes to the 'img' tags.
• Improved blog posts' export.
• Improved the WordPress import wizard for databases with table prefixes.
• Enhanced import wizards for setups where images are served from remote storage.
• Refactored the "Related Products by Rule" functionality. Products generated by the rule are no longer displayed in the post’s related products list in the admin panel, and the maximum number of products that can be linked to a post via a rule has been increased to 10,000 (Blog Plus & Extra).
• Hyva theme improvements.
• Design improvements.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with uploading the blog post og:image via REST API.
• Resolved an image resize issue when using remote storage.
• Resolved an exception error in the browser console on blog pages with non-cacheable blocks.
• Fixed the "Call to undefined method Magefan\Blog\Model\ResourceModel\Author\Collection\Interceptor::addStoreFilter" error when using the Hyva CMS compatibility module (magefan/hyva-theme-blog-liveview-editor).
• Fixed the related products display issue on post view pages on the Hyva theme.
• Resolved the "Class "Magefan\BlogExtra\Controller\Adminhtml\Magefan\BlogExtra\Model\CommentSubscriber" does not exist" error (Blog Extra).
• Fixed lazy loading issues with AJAX pagination on the Hyva theme.

General:

• Updated the Product Widget extension to v2.0.16 (Blog Extra).
• Updated the YouTube Video extension to v2.0.24 (Blog Extra).
• Released v2.1.2 of the Hyva compatibility packages: magefan/hyva-theme-blog-extra and magefan/hyva-theme-blog-plus.

Features:

• Added the "Add Entities to Schedule" feature in the Translation Schedule section. It enables filtering and mass selection of entities for translation for specific store IDs and fields (Extra).
• Added the "Delay Before Translation (minutes)" option to delay translation after the last save. If the entity is saved again within this window, the timer resets (Extra).

Improvements:

• Improved the CLI command bin/magento magefan:translation:schedule. It now supports additional options: --type=product, --entity-ids=10,20, --store-ids=2,3, and --fields=name,description (Extra).
• Replaced the "Schedule All Entities" button with the "Schedule Selected Sources" one (Extra).
• Improved the ChatGPT system prompt (Extra).
• Enhanced translation of text with placeholders, e.g., %1, %2, etc. (Extra).
• Minor code improvements.

General:

• Updated the HTML Sitemap extension to v2.3.3 (SEO Plus & Extra).
• Updated the Rich Snippets extension to v2.0.26 (SEO Plus & Extra).
• Updated the Hreflang Tags extension to v2.5.0 (SEO Extra).
• Updated the Open Graph Tags extension to v2.2.4 (SEO Extra).
• Updated the Twitter Cards extension to v2.2.4 (SEO Extra).

Features:

• Added the automatic redirect from the "Not Visible Individually" products to their parent items (SEO Extra).
• Enabled specifying multiple keywords separated by | in a single cross link (SEO Extra).

Features:

• Added the ability to mass update prices and special prices based on cost, price, or special price.

Improvements:

• Prevented unintended category saves during bulk updates that could reset store view values and uncheck the “Use Default Value” checkboxes (caused by a Magento repository cache issue).
• Improved the structure of the Related, Up-Sell, and Cross-Sell options in the mass actions dropdown.
• Minor code improvements.

Improvements:

• Extended the category snippet with new schema types: Product (default), Items List, and Items List & Product.

Improvements:

• Added a "Special Price Date Range" option to the list of Magento attributes.
• Code improvements. Moved the MSI logic to a separate model.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with the incorrect prices in the feed when the "Feed generation by" option was set to "All Currencies by Store".

Improvements:

• Added the CMS display rule columns to the CMS page and block grids.
• Improved page emulation.

Improvements:

• Enhanced the cross-site scripting (XSS) protection.

General:

• Set the NOINDEX, FOLLOW meta robots for the HTML sitemap pages.

Features:

• Added a new "Use Store Code In Default Store View URLs" option.

Fixes:

• Fixed the "Template file Magefan_YouTubeWidget::js.phtml does not exist" error in the admin panel.

Improvements:

• Code refactoring and improvements.

Features:

• Added a new "Use Store Code In Default Store View URLs" option.

Fixes:

• Fixed the "Exception #0 (Exception): Warning: Undefined array key 4 in vendor/magento/module-catalog/Pricing/Render/FinalPriceBox.php on line 161" error.

Features:

• Added Portuguese to the list of available locales (Basic Plan).
• Added a separate configuration section for the organization snippet (Standard Plan).

Improvements:

• Increased the comment text length to 5,000 characters (Basic Plan).
• Increased the character limit for the post custom CSS field to 10,000 characters (Basic Plan).

Fixes:

• Added the missing plan label for the co-author option on the post editing form.
• Fixed the "Submit" button on the comment reply form.
• Corrected the sidebar display for the "2 columns left" layout on mobile.

Fixes:

• Resolved the issue with the default market not being visible in the login pop-up.
• Fixed the incorrect email in the "You are logged in as..." banner for new customer accounts.