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Though there are plenty of in your Magento 2 store but driving traffic stands out the most. Our Magento Blog extension helps you to provide value to your customers, promote your products and improve the online visibility of your brand. 

Blog extension is also a great option if you need to manage everything within one admin panel. It offers you plenty of import options if you want to move to Magefan Blog from other vendors. 

However, you can also export blog posts in CSV when required. And we'll teach you how in this article.

To export Magento blog posts in CSV format: 

1. Navigate to Content > Blog > Posts. 
2. Find the Export to option, select CSV and press Export.

Once you export the blog posts in CSV, you can import them to any other instance or CRM you need. However, if you're moving the blog content between multiple instances with Magefan Blog, it's better to . 

For more information, check out the .

Magento 2 blog is the best marketing tool you can use to attract more customers to your store, share some relevant information and gather loyal subscribers who strive to learn more about the experience shared in your blog posts. Content is king and it would be a crime not use it to its full extent to get more traffic.

By managing a blog on your Magento 2 store you create a community of followers. They share your idea and want to receive updates on the topics they are interested in on a regular basis.

Correspondingly, except for sharing your blog posts on social media, you need to consider emailing them to your subscribers. Having hundreds or thousands of blog subscribers it will be impossible to do it manually.

That is why in this article you are going to learn how to email your Magento 2 blog posts automatically using the Mailchimp, all-in-one Email Marketing Platform.

Search form, categories and sidebar widgets are some of the best ways to improve navigation in your Magento 2 Blog. However, today you're going to learn about some other - Blog Tags.

Tags are used to help readers navigate through your blog faster and more effectively. Tag is a short description of a topic that is used as a keyword to mark blog posts. 

In our Blog tags are displayed at the top of the blog post page, in the sidebar tag cloud and on tags page. 

Take the following steps to create new blog tag in Magento 2:

1. Navigate to Content > Blog > Tags and press Add New Tag button.

2. Make sure you Enable the new Tag.

3. Set the Tag Title and write some Content that will be displayed on the tag page.

If you want to keep your audience engaged and get some feedback about your content, you need comments. However, things can get a little out of hand from time to time, especially without moderation. Luckily that's not the thing with the . 

It offers you three different comment types, the ability to edit, approve/disapprove comments and even more. You can disable blog comments for some particular blog posts and protect your blog from spam with reCaptcha.

So, today you'll learn all you need about Magento 2 Blog comments, and how to manage them properly.

Magento Blog supports different comment types that are part of the . To configure them navigate to Stores > Configuration > Magefan Extensions > Blog > Post View and find the Comments section.

Magefan Blog Comments

Magefan comments are the built-in comments that give you the most control over what gets published in the comments area.  

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Your store homepage is a place where most of your visitors actually land. That's why adding as much information about your brand there is crucial. Testimonials, best sellers, new arrivals, brand story — you provide all the details here to make an impression. But don't forget that if you manage a blog, it deserves to be there too.

So in this guide, you'll learn how to add blog posts to the Magento homepage and homepage sidebar. The makes the entire process super easy.

Ready to start?

Add Recent Posts to Magento Homepage

You can add recent blog posts to the Magento homepage in two ways: through Magento widgets or directly into the CMS page content (using the widget tool). We'll go with the first option. 

1. Navigate to Content > Widgets and click the Add Widget button.

2. Select Magefan Blog Extension - Recent Blog Posts as a widget Type, set the Design Theme and press the Continue button.

Once you start a blog on your store, one of the first things to do is to promote it across your website. You can , add related posts to product pages or try some other way. But the simplest of all is to add a blog link to the Magento navigation menu. 

That's what you'll learn to do with the . Since the process differs depending on the theme you use, we'll describe a few different cases. 

Add/Remove Blog Link from Magento Navigation Menu

1. Navigate to the Stores > Configuration > Magefan Extensions > Blog and find the Category Top Navigation section.
2. Choose whether to Display Blog Link in a corresponding select box.
3. Add the Link Text that will be displayed on the frontend.
4. Select whether to Include Blog Categories in the menu and specify the Maximal Depth of the subcategory levels.

Don't forget to Save the settings once you finish and check the blog link in the navigation menu on the storefront.

Magento 2 blog categories are a great way to improve blog navigation and organize your posts according to different criteria. Creating categories in , you improve customer experience and allow readers to find things they are interested in faster and more effectively.

So, in this guide, you'll learn how to create blog categories and manage them.

Create Blog Categories in Magento

We recommend creating categories before you create posts. However, you can also add a new category when . First, navigate to the Content > Blog > Categories and press the Add New Category button.

1. Fill out general information

Enable your category and enter a Title. Then assign a category to Parent Category, if any. Set the Position of the category in the sidebar and choose whether to Include a category in the top navigation Menu.

Additionally, you can set whether to Include a category in Sidebar