Hi, Magefan customers. Welcome to the digest of May 2026 news and updates!
This month has been very productive for the team. From releasing a new tool to fine-tuning the existing solutions, we've been working to ensure our and are more effective and respond to the challenges of the eCommerce world.
Let's have a look at the changes we introduced in May!
Magento Extensions
With the growing impact of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other LLMs, online stores now face a new reality of AI optimization. Yet, it's easy to lose focus with all the aspects you could improve.
Thus, it's best to start by helping AI crawlers better understand your store. That's exactly what the Magefan Magento 2 LLMs.txt Generator is for.
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Create and update the LLMs.txt file automatically. -
Include product, category, CMS, and pages. -
Limit the number of pages in the LLMs.txt file. -
Add your custom content and more...
Highlight the most important pages to help AI crawlers better understand what your store is about. Improve your AI visibility and make your content easier to discover in a few simple steps.
General:
Important! Google Tag Manager Basic has become paid for Magento Open Source.
Features:
Implemented the functionality to add custom item-scoped and event-scoped dimensions (GTM Extra).
Added an option to ignore specific IPs in the server container (GTM Extra).
Added an option to hide product price in the events for specific customer groups (GTM Plus & Extra).
Added an option to limit the number of items for the view_item_list event (GTM Plus & Extra).
Improvements:
Significant server container improvements (GTM Extra).
Enhanced bot detection in the server-side tracking (GTM Extra).
Compatibilities:
Added compatibility with the Magento 2 One Step Checkout extension by Aheadworks.
Fixes:
Fixed an issue with the same 'magefanUniqueEventId' in the begin_checkout, add_shipping_info, and add_payment_info events (GTM Plus & Extra).
Resolved the intermittent login issues that occurred when the server container was enabled (GTM Extra).
Fixed an error on order creation when the afterpay-global/module-afterpay was used (GTM Extra).
Fixed the incorrect currency attribution when tracking missing orders (GTM Extra).
Features:
Added support for DeepSeek as a translation provider (Extra).
Improvements:
Product image alt attributes are now auto-translated (Extra).
Features:
Added dynamic subfields for the [product_detail], [product_highlight], [shipping], and [tax] attributes.
Added a CLI command: bin/magento magefan:googleshoppingfeed:regenerate -s code, where 'code' is a store code or store ID.
Improvements:
The extension may now be disabled at the store view level to exclude specific stores from feed generation.
Minor code improvements.
Features:
Added a new "Cookie Consent Update" section.
Added the "Badge Position" option for the consent update badge.
Improvements:
Improved styles for the Hyvä and Breeze themes.
Performance optimization.
Features:
Added the ability to track changes in the following sections: Index Management, Cache Management, Admin Users, User Roles, and Customer Companies (Adobe Commerce).
General:
Minor code improvements.
Improvements:
For configurable products, the lowest child item price is now shown by default.
Changes to comply with the Magento Coding Standard.
Shopify Apps
General:
Implemented changes to comply with the Built for Shopify requirements.
Fixes:
Fixed an issue with getting a blank form when editing the blog index page.
Stay tuned to be aware of the latest news and updates. .
