News and Updates - November 2025

Features:

• Completely new additional design, "Valor", that can be enabled optionally.
• 6 new post list templates (Blog Extra).
• Option to add a video instead of the featured image on the post view page (Blog Extra).
• Option to display blog post rich snippets for the recent and featured blog posts widgets (Blog Plus & Extra).
• Option to display related blog posts' rich snippets on a product page (Blog Plus & Extra).
• New social sharing button — BlueSky.
• Slider template for featured/recent post widgets, related posts/products, posts from the same category, and latest posts by author.

Compatibilities:

• Hyva page builder (Hyva CMS) compatibility. New composer package magefan/hyva-theme-blog-liveview-editor is available (Blog Plus & Extra).
• Improved compatibility with the Breeze theme.

General:

• Updated the YouTube Video extension to v2.0.21 (Blog Extra).
• Updated the Product Widget extension to v2.0.21 (Blog Extra).
• Added the reCAPTCHA composer package (magefan/module-blog-comments-recaptcha) for blog comments form protection to the extension out of the box.
• LESS styles are in use for the Valor design.
• Removed the jquery.toc JavaScript library.
• Replaced OWL carousel with Swiper JS library.

Improvements:

• Changes to comply with the Magento Coding Standard.
• CSV import improvements (Blog Extra).
• Improved Rest API collection for Postman.
• Security improvements.

General:

• Performed full code refactoring.
• Released a new composer package: magefan/module-point-of-sale

Features:

• Magento widgets translation: CMS page link, catalog category link, and catalog product link (Extra).
• Magefan widgets translation: FAQ rich snippet, How-To rich snippet, event rich snippet, organization rich snippet, brand slider, blog author link, blog category link, blog post link, blog tag link, featured posts widget, recent posts widget, and cookie settings link (Extra).

Improvements:

• Code refactoring and minor improvements (Extra).

Fixes:

• Resolved an issue with saving CMS blocks at a store view level (Plus & Extra).
• Fixed an issue with global product and category attributes being added to the Translation Schedule (Extra).

Features:

• Added a new property, ProductGroup (Variants), for configurable products.

Improvements:

• Removed "source" and "img" from the list of allowed tags.

Improvements:

• Performance optimization of the cron job that updates image data.
• The extension now processes images that have the incorrect file extension.

Fixes:

• Resolved an issue with the media path /./media/ (remote storage).

Improvements:

• Minor changes to comply with the Magento Coding Standard.

Fixes:

• Resolved the case when missing indexes interrupted the reindexing process during rule application.

Improvements:

• Minor changes to comply with the Magento Coding Standard.

Fixes:

• Resolved the issue with filtering items by Category IDs on the product page.

Improvements:

• Changes to comply with the Magento Coding Standard.

Improvements:

• Improved blog comments management on the admin panel side.
• Added the ability to skip the featured image generation and convert the featured image to .webp during the AI post generation.

Features:

• Added the option to use a private email for the non-legacy customer account login (Basic Plan).