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Hello, dear friends,  The second month of the summer is almost over and we are happy to share the most recent updates with you.  First of all, we'd like to say - we were so happy to be among the sponsors of the Mage Unconference NL that took place this July in the Netherlands. You can take a look and feel the mood of the event by checking some photos. Secondly, we are thrilled to say that now our website design becomes even more user-friendly. We added a dark mode to our website which will help our visitors to reduce eye strain especially if they work in a low-light environment.  Try dark mode now by clicking the " Go Dark" button, and we are sure you'll love it as we do.   Scroll through the pages and let us know what you think!   Last but not least, let's talk about our recent updates and new features we've added to our extensions this July.   New features of ! We added a Page Speed Optimization option -  if enabled GTM JavaScript will be loaded only afterihor

Hello, dear friends,  The first summer month is almost over and we are ready to share our most recent news and updates.  Before we proceed we’d like to tell you some really exciting news! On July 12-13, you can join one of the greatest events of this summer - MageUnconference NL which will take place in the Netherlands, Utrecht. And we are so happy to be among the sponsors of this great event. Follow the official Mage Unconference Twitter account to stay updated.  So, let's move to the new features of Magefan extensions. New features of the ! We added compatibility with Hyva Theme. Added page speed optimization option. Added functionality which If enabled Facebook Pixel JavaScript will be loaded only after users first click, scroll, or mouse touch. Added an option to include product categories in the pixel data. We also added auto space trimming for config values.  For Facebook Pixel Plus & Extra version, we added the following options: Product List on the category page, related/up-sell/cross-sellihor

Hello, dear friends,  Today we want to share the latest news, updates and improvements we’ve been working on this May.  It was quite a productive month. Our team worked hard and added lots of new features and improvements you will definitely love. Let's start! New features of the ! In the latest version, we have added a new amazing feature for better SEO optimization. Now SEO extension allows you to create and apply SEO rules (templates) to products and categories. Once you create the SEO rules, you can preview the products with the applied templates. Also, we added an option not to remove the existing metadata. For your convenience, you can use the list of available attributes and edit inline. In the last version, we also improved the crosslinks processor and improved PHP 8.2 compatibility. We added a migration script that creates SEO rules based on config data (Store -> Config section). We also added a cron job that applies SEO rules.   New features of the ! Magento POSihor

Hello, dear friends,   Today we’d like to tell you more about all the latest updates we at Magefan have been working on this April. Let's go! New features of the ! In the latest version, we added new tracking for sign-in, creating an account and searches (features are available in GTM Extra version). Also, the extension is now compatible with the Hyva Theme.  We improved compatibility with Magento 2.3.x.  In the last version, we also fixed the JS error on the checkout page when the module is disabled in the admin panel (in GTM Plus version). Another fix of an issue to when instead of brand name dataLayer contained just brand ID was made in the recent version.   New features of the ! In the latest version of Magento 2 POS System Plus, we added a customer search by VAT or Company name. Also, we added the display of customer VAT and Company name on customer search results (available in the POS Plus version). We also added an option to add a logo at the top of the receipt. Anotherihor

The began on February 24, 2022. It was a day that changed us and our way of living. We thought these terrific events would last for a few days or at least a . Unfortunately, this horrible war that has already taken so many lives of adults and children has lasted for a and is still not over. Donations have become a part of Ukrainians’ ordinary lives throughout this year. And Magefan is not an exception. Our company keeps working and donates to the humanitarian aid organizations. Here are some main foundations we support with our monthly donations. Comeback Alive Fundation Comeback Alive is one of the biggest Ukrainian charitable foundations. Ukrainians and people from around the globe had donated to this fund over 140 million dollars since February 24, 2022.  The main project of this fund is Army Assitance. This is also one of the first charity funds that has been providing army assistance since 2014 when russia first invaded Ukraine.  Prytula Foundation Prytula Foundation is anotherihor

Hello, dear friends,   We are ready to share with you the first news and updates digest of spring 2023. A lot of great updates from Magefan this March. Let’s start! New features of the ! Big updates to our bestseller – Magefan Blog! We added an option to set a custom blog category canonical URL. Another great addition — is an option to reset extension configuration options to use system values. We also updated some localization vocabularies and improved import for Hubspot Wizard and via CSV. We made some design improvements for compatibility with different themes. New PHP 8.1 code compatibility changes was added too. We have also fixed the "Previous" and "Next Post" links that lead to the wrong articles.   New features of ! We changed the default value for the "Apply By" option. We also removed the option "Assign Product With Attributes" from the category. Now, this option is hidden and for technical use only. In this version, you will also be able to rename categoriesihor

Hello, Magento fans,  Catch the news and updates that took place this February. The winter is almost over, so get ready for the sunny days and new great things from Magefan. New features of the ! Saving time while updating Magento catalog is key to effective management. And dynamic category is a perfect tool for improving the creation and updating of categories. Now, it works even better, since we’ve improved compatibility with Magento Commerce and Commerce on Cloud. Besides, we’ve fixed an issue with the Idle (backlog items) appearing repeatedly because of the enabled "UPDATE BY SCHEDULE" index mode. The SQL error on the dynamic product attribute value update that appeared on Magento Commerce is fixed as well.   New features of ! If you’ve planned on displaying product attributes in the description, you can now do that with the widget we’ve added. We’ve also fixed the display issue on the store view level — displaying custom product tabs on different store views is even moreihor

February 24, 2022.The day when the full-scale war started changed the lives of all Ukrainians and the world. Since 2022, February 24 is not just another day on the calendar. For us, it’s the beginning of a new era.We thought it would last for a few days or just a few weeks. And these few days turned into 365 days of war and it's not over. Every day of this war is hard less or more for each of us. Although the first days were full of fear, tears and ignorance, we began to act and fight. We united in one strong nation, one big family that could resist anything.We'd like to share how the lives of our team members changed this year. Viktoria: "If I say that 2022 was a difficult year, it won't cover even a tiny bit of all the horrors we, Ukrainians, had to face. I consider it to be a turning point in my life that made me sort out my priorities and become much more mature. At the same time, I fell in love with our country, culture and people all over again. This is why I know thatihor

Starting from February 1, 2022, all our extensions will go with to the new product releases and lifetime access to the source code. In order to download the latest version of your extension and receive free support service after the 365-day period since the extension has been ordered, you need to purchase the Extension Renewal. The Extension Renewal costs 50% of the product price. Access to all previous versions will be available in your account, however, you will not be able to download the latest version unless the Extension Renewal is purchased. 

Hello, Magento fans,  Eager to learn about the first news and updates digest in 2023? Here we go. New features of the ! As you know, a well-structured SEO strategy brings more revenue, the same as choosing the right tools. Our SEO extension is a must-have since it helps Google to discover, index and rank your store which brings more traffic as a result. So, in the latest release, we’ve improved it for better results. We’ve extended catalogue category pagination settings for SEO-friendly pagination pages. Besides, we’ve improved the meta title, description, keywords, H1 tag masks and crosslinks processor.    New features of ! Every SEO specialist would confirm that structured data is more than important for improved visibility on Google. Product, organization, search bar and FAQ snippets are important, same as is the HowTo markup. That’s why we’ve added a new  in the latest version of the Rich Snippets extension. With the ‘HowTo’ rich snippet widget you can easily drive moreihor

2022 is almost over. Honestly, it wasn't an easy year for us, all Ukrainians. However, we are still grateful for it, for the opportunity to live and do what we love here in Ukraine. That’s why we’d like to share the short timeline of events and accomplishments at Magefan during 2022.   January  The first month was a great start, full of countless ideas and plans for the year. We also prepared for switching to a different - where we kept the one-time payment model and continued to provide access to all new releases and free support for 365 days.    February We were working on new releases and clients' projects the whole month till the 24th of February. Every Ukrainian will remember this dark day as the worst day in their lives when russia attacked our beloved country with missiles and tanks. For the next few days of that month, all our team members were out of the office moving to safe places with their loved ones and waiting for the unknown brought by this horrible war. Andihor

Hello, Magento fans,  Have you managed to get your favorite Magefan extension with a super discount this November? This month has been full of new features and updates. One of the greatest — all Magefan extensions are now fully compatible with the . New features of the ! Great news! Your checkout will be even more convenient now. We’ve added compatibility with Stripe, an online payment processing platform and Magento 2.4.5. Add icons to payment methods, set default payment and shipping methods, and improve the overall checkout experience for your customers!     New features of ! Compatibility with the Hyvä theme is what you might have been waiting for — and we’ve made it! Additionally, we’ve added the rule duplication option and some minor code improvements in the version. So, from now on you don’t have to create auto-related product rules from scratch. Simply duplicate them and tweak the settings. This feature reduces related product management time to minutes.   Newihor

Hello, Magento fans,  You will be happy to know that many of your favourite extensions have been updated this month. We’ve added plenty of great and useful features. Catch the middle-autumn Magefan updates! New features of the ! You can not create even more categories automatically with the dynamic category rules. We have added compatibility with PHP 8 and moved dynamic product attributes logic to a separate module magefan/module-dynamic-product-attributes. Besides, we've added multi-website compatibility which allows you to create dynamic categories across multiple websites.   New features of the !  Are your banners and pages targeted at specific customers to increase sales and provide a personalized experience? The latest version of the CMS display rules extension is even better. We’ve added compatibility with the Hyva theme out of the box. You’ll also appreciate the Display on Device option (All, Mobile, Tablets, Desktop) that enables you to show different blocks on differentihor

Hello, Magento fans, Catch the first news and updates of this autumn! You know, the Magefan team loves this autumn more than any other season of this year. Thankfully, we are still here, working hard to produce new ideas,  develop new extensions, and make new releases you will definitely love.   So, let's dive into the world of Magefan updates! New features of the ! Generating product feeds for Google Shopping is even more convenient now. In the latest version, we have improved the compatibility with configurable products. Besides, we’ve removed default values for Google Analytics tracking from the extension configuration and added an option to auto-generate GTIN based on product ID. Additionally, we have added an option to select different Magento image attributes which is very convenient if you have different images for the same product. If you’ve faced any issues with the feed updating, just update the extension. We have fixed an issue with the feed not being updated by cron automaticallyihor

Hello Magento fans, This month we’ve released lots of new features to continue making our extensions better for you. Let's start! New features of the ! First and foremost we've added an option to assign a blog author to a specific store view or website (). We have also added other options: post sorting by End Date (Blog Extra), and post SORT BY option for the recent blog posts widget. Regarding the compatibility changes, we've added the compatibility with the latest Amasty XML Sitemap extension and the compatibility of GraphQL with PWA Studio v12.6.0. The support for capitalized tag names is available in the latest release. We have also fixed the "Cannot instantiate abstract class AbstractResource" error on CSV/XML import (Blog Extra). The blog's become a little better this month with more changes yet to come. New features of the Extension! Better SEO is the ultimate goal of every business. That's why we work on making our SEO Extension more advanced. In this release, we have added aihor

Message from the Magefan CEO, Ihor Vansach: Today we celebrate the 31st Anniversary of Ukrainian Renewed Independence. For the last 400 years Ukrainians were fighting for their independence, and this fight, unfortunately, continues. When we celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Ukrainian Renewed Independence last year we couldn’t even imagine what terrible things will happen to our beautiful country in 6 months. Since russia started its war and brought tragedy to our land on February 24, 2022, our working processes have stopped only for a few days. Each of us has found inner strength and could put ourselves together (although it was dramatically hard emotionally) to keep working. The war that russia began against our country changed our mindsets and life values. We value our loved ones more than ever before, we value our neighbourhoods, more than ever before, we value the opportunity to work in our undamaged office more than ever before, and we most important love Ukraine more than ever beforeihor

Hello Magento fans! We have prepared a mid-summer list of Magefan news and updates for you since there were quite a lot of changes this month. So with no further ado, let's start. New ! SEO is a complex concept that requires time and effort to optimize. Even the tiniest things can influence your store visibility and search rankings. So while you concentrate on the metadata, keywords, and page content you forget what makes your pages appear in search in the first place — XML sitemap. We're happy to announce the release of the new Magento 2 XML Sitemap extension as an addition to the famous module. It allows you to generate an accurate XML sitemaps automatically, define indexing frequency and priority and exclude pages from a sitemap.  With this module, you can improve website indexing and make relevant pages appear in search results faster!   New features of the ! Managing related products is much faster with the Magento 2 Related Products Extension, especially now when we'veihor

Hello Magento fans, This June we've got plenty of news and updates for you since we've released 2 new extensions and added plenty of new features and fixed to about 12 of them. So, let's dive in. You have a lot to discover. New ! Order management is one of the most essential processes in your Magento 2 store. It directly influences customers' experience and their desire to return and purchase from you repeatedly. Sometimes customers want to change the shipping address or remove some products they added to the order accidentally. Here's when Edit Order Extension takes the stage to help you process customers' requests faster and keep the order data organized.  You can edit all of the order details: status, number, website, customer, shipping&biling addresses, payment methods, and ordered items.  The module tracks all of the changes and offers a Quick Order Edit feature, so you can conveniently edit orders without canceling them.   Introducing (beta version)! For retailers whoihor

Hello Magento fans, It's been another month of hard work. So we've prepared a lot of updates to make our extensions even more useful and beneficial for you. Let's review what's new for you this May. New features of the ! You can manage even more SEO features for better visibility, ranking and traffic now. We've added a feature, so you can now add internal links for one keyword across multiple pages with just s few clicks. Besides you can now configure the rel=PREV rel=NEXT for category pagination pages and define max-snippet, max-image-preview, max-video-preview meta robots.  If you had any issues with the product meta title templates, please update the extension. We've fixed the issues with the mask values being saved in the database. New features of the ! Website speed contributes not only to customers' experience, but SEO as well. So using WebP images benefits you for a number of reasons. In this release, we offer you to improve WebP images converting by cron and bin/magento commandihor

Hello Magento fans, Our Magefan team continues to work at these hard times in order to continue delivering high-quality services and solutions. April has been full of updates and news since we developed plenty of new features in order to make our extension even more beneficial to you. With no further ado, let's dive right in. NEW ! If you're looking for a better way to manage related, cross-sell and up-sell products Auto Related Products Extension is the best fit. It enables you to provide better shopping experience and increase revenue through extended product recommendations.  You can define where, when and what products to display on more than 20 block positions based on multiple product, cart, and page attributes. Related products,cross-sells and up-sells could be displayed based on a smart "Who Bought This Also Bought" and "Who Viewed This Also Viewed" algorithm, "Same As" and different other conditions. Most importantly you can display related products not only on products andihor

Hello Magento fans, This has been a very long month for everyone in our Magefan team, and all Ukrainian people. As far as many of you know, Russia started a war against our peaceful country on February 24, 2022. During the last month, russian soldiers have ruined hundreds of towns and villages in our country, killing thousands of innocent people, including children. Learn more about one month of the war and how you can help in . Magefan keeps working even in these tough times. This month we have released new extensions and improved the existing ones. NEW ! Now there is no need to worry about the most important SEO-related features since our new Magento 2 SEO covers them all. You can enable hreflang tags, configure rich snippets, generate HTML sitemap, add canonical tags, configure redirects, set up open graph tags and Twitter cards all in one place. It is a bundle of 6 separate solutions to improve your SEO and boost revenue.   NEW With this solution, you will be able to easilyihor