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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

The article was provided by GoMage — a Magento development company that offers you seamless store and extensions development tailored to your business needs and expectations.  With over 5 billion mobile users in the world, creating a user-friendly mobile experience should be a top priority for every business. And a responsive website isn’t the only option available. PWAs offer businesses an easy and cost-effective way to interact with their customers. Multiple world-known companies have already reaped great benefits from utilizing this technology. Forbes, Pinterest, Instagram, Starbucks, Twitter, Lancôme, Uber, and many others are among them. However, not every business needs a PWA. In this blog post, you will find answers to the following questions: What does pwa stand for? What is a progressive web app? What are progressive web apps’ characteristics? How does it differ from a regular website?  Which should you choose: a responsive website or a PWA for your business? What are Progressiveihor

Creating blog posts is not as easy as it sounds. Having a creative idea alone won't yield the expected results. That's why crafting compelling content requires researching, structuring and optimizing SEO.  But most importantly, it requires a tool that allows you to put all of these together — . In this guide, you'll learn how easy it is to create blog posts in Magento and how to manage them to maintain an engaging blog. We'll cover multiple stages, from creating blog content to design and SEO. Note: before we start, note that some of the options described are available only in the . Create Blog Posts in Magento The main thing about your blog post is content, no doubt. But the category you add it to and display settings matter as well. Let's go through each of these steps to make the most of your blog post.  First navigate to Content > Blog > Posts and press the Add New Post button to start. 1. Fill out general information Here you only need to set the post Title and assign it to aihor

If you want to create a multi-language store to sell worldwide be ready for a lot of work. You'll need to translate a lot of pages, localize banners and offers. But most importantly you'll need to cover the most basic of settings in this case — language switcher.  You can enable the language switcher in Magento by creating different store views. But people will still land on the default store.  To improve their experience you can switch them to a corresponding store view automatically. That's what we'll do today using the Automatic . Configure Auto Language Switcher Once you're ready, navigate to Stores > Configuration > Magefan Extensions > Auto Language Switcher and Enable the extension. 1. Fill out general settings In the general section, you need to define how to switch the store view for visitors and whether to redirect them between one or multiple websites. Let's see what your options are.  Switch store view automatically Choose the Auto Direct option for the Swither Modeihor

If you want to target a wider audience and the first thing you have to pay attention to is translations. However, translating Magento is not that easy. You can either use the default , resort to any other translation solutions or import your translations from somewhere else. That's what we'll focus on in this guide. You'll learn how you can import translations to Magento and export them if you need to migrate. Import Translations to Magento To import translations to Magento, you need by Magefan since there are no default options for that. From that point, translations import works just like any other Magento import. First, navigate to System > Data Transfer > Import and select Magefan Translation as the Entity Type. Note: you can also download a sample file on this step to see how it should be organised for a successful import. Then fill out the import options: Select the Import Behaviour.  Choose the Validation Strategy and define the Allowed Error Count.  Set the Field Separatorihor

How much time do customers spend on your product pages? Is all important information provided and easily accessible? Customers demand rich and detailed product information to make a purchasing decision. However, at the same time, they don't want to be overloaded with information that they can't navigate through.  Structuring product details and highlights in product tabs make it easy to navigate through and find all relevant data from delivery details to FAQs, taxing video, and .  A limited number of product tabs provided by default won't yield the desired results. So you have to add custom product tabs in Magento.  Most guides offer you to create custom layouts and templates by diving deep into the code. But we'll show you how to add them from the admin panel with the simple .  To add custom tabs on Magento 2 product page: 1. Navigate to Content > Product Tabs > Tabs and press the Add New Tab button.  2. Set general tab information. Enable Tab. Set a Name and Title. Theihor

Adding enables you to maximize your sales and drive customers' attention to popular items. However, considering Magento by default adds related products after the product description people might not even get to those products.  That's why you have to optimize related products block and display it just where they could be easily discovered — in product tabs. Magento tabs are a great way to structure product information and help customers navigate through it easily.  In this article, you'll learn how to add Magento related products in product tabs without diving deep into the code. All you need is . To add related products in product tabs:  1. Configure General Rule Information. Go to Marketing > Automatic Related Products > Rules and press the Add New Rule button. Enable Rule, give it a Name and Description, and set Priority. Define what Customer Group the related products in product tabs will be visible to.  Choose Store View where the block should be displayed.  Chooseihor

When customers have difficulties placing an order or preparing a shopping cart, the last thing they want is to wait. Since sharing login data is not an option you have to figure out a way to log in as a customer in Shopify without it. And Shopify makes that possible with their Multipass feature, but only for the Shopify Plus users. Yet, you can still log in as customer in Shopify with other plans. You just need the Magefan app — . Not only does it work with all Shopify plans, but all account types including . So, in this guide, you'll learn about the various options it offers. General Settings Before we jump to different Shopify accounts and ways to log in as a customer, let's complete a few general app settings. For that, navigate to Apps > Magefan Login as Customer > Configuration. In the Logged In As Message section, decide whether to enable the "You are logged in as ..." banner.  It will be displayed on the storefront, showing support agents which customer accounts they are workingihor

Helping customers with their requests has never been easier with the . Today you'll learn how to install it in your store for a better customer experience and more advanced support.  To install Login as Customer App in Shopify: 1. Log in to the Shopify App Store and find the Magefan Login as Customer. 2. Click Add app on the Login as Customer listing page. 3. Click Install app in your Shopify admin to authorize the use of the app.  Once the app is installed you'll find it within the Apps and sales channel settings in your Shopify admin. Note: if you've selected a paid plan you'll see charges in the next invoice. Magefan issues charges in a recurring app charge. To see your current invoice you simply have to click on the Login as Customer App on the list of the apps. 4. Navigate to Apps and find the Login as Customer app to start using it.  If you click on the App you'll be redirected to the customer grid where you can from.

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

Magento 2.4.5. has been launched in August 2022 with over 290 quality enhancements and fixes. It features improvements in GraphQL, performance, quality and many other features. Since then there has been 14 patches released to improve , stability and performance. So, today we'll focus on the Magento 2.4.5 release notes to guide you through all these versions. You'll discover all important features in this version before you  and update it to the latest version. Magento 2.4.5 Release Notes There have been plenty of features added in this release. However, we'd like to highlight only the most important features worth your attention. Platform A lot of focus is on platform improvements in this release. Composer 2.2. support TincMCE 5.10.2 support Query 1.13.1 support DHL integration schema updated to v6.2 Updated outdated JS libraries Removed outdated dependencies Security Magento 2.4.5 includes 20 security fixes and platform security improvements. Google reCAPTCHA for Wish List Sharing, Giftihor

It's not a secret website speed is one of the most important SEO ranking factors not only because of the loading itself, but its influence on customer experience. That's why you have to constantly with different tools to determine the issues slowing down your Magento 2 store. The most common tool everyone is familiar with is Google PageSpeed Insights or PSI. It runs your URL through Google's servers and provides a report on how your website is doing. Today we want to turn your attention to the "Defer Offscreen Images" that often holds your website from getting into the PSI green zone. We'll discuss what it means and how you can fix it to . What is "Defer Offscreen Images" Message? "Defer Offscreen Images" is the message displayed in Google PageSpeed Insights that lists all images that should be lazy loaded on the requested URL. It also shows the potential size savings you'll get from lazy loading these images. The complete description from Google looks like this:  "Consider lazy-loadingihor

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

Our is a robust marketing tool that allows you to promote your products and build a community around your brand. And although it offers you a lot of SEO features, internal blog links are not something the module can cover for you. According to the , linking relevant pages together will pass the link juice across these pages. But not only that. It also improves customers' experience and helps search robots to understand your website structure better.  So, in this article, you'll learn how to add links across multiple blog posts in literally a few clicks. You'll need to resort to the to configure automatic internal links in the blog. To enable automatic internal links in Magento 2 Blog:  1. Navigate to Stores > Configuration > Magefan Extensions > SEO > Cross Links and make sure Magefan Blog Post Content is selected to be used for Auto Cross Links.  2. Go to Marketing > Seo&Search > Cross Links and press the Add Cross Link button. 3. Fill out general Cross Link Information. ihor

Setting up special price in Magento 2 is one of many ways to and boost conversion rates in your store. Since sales always drive customers' attention and make them come back regularly, you need to know how to leverage them to your benefit. So, in this guide, you'll learn more about special prices in Magento 2 and how to configure and edit them in bulk or gather all products on sale into one category. You set up a special price to put a product on sale. It is displayed instead of the regular price with the regular price notation. However, except for the product page, it is also displayed in a catalogue. Want to track price changes in your store? Get and display the lowest price over a certain period on the frontend. Set Up Magento 2 Special Price 1.Navigate to Catalog > Products and choose the product you want to configure a special price for. 2. Scroll down to the Price field and click on Advanced Pricing. 3. Enter the Special Price you want customers to see during the sale periodihor

Working on the Magento store is not that easy either for developers or admins whatever task they're engaged in. And though Magento 2 errors are something one never wants to meet, you may encounter them when installing , updating Magento, creating multiple product-related requests, running some script or file with no execute permissions, etc. These errors in Magento might range from harmless to quite complex influencing your website performance and customer experience. However, in most cases, they're relatively easy to handle if you detect why they appear timely.  So this article is a breakdown of the most common Magento errors you can run into. Knowing the causes, types of the errors and helps you avoid them in the future.  Magento error 1: Access Denied Magento Access Denied HTTP error 403 most commonly appears in the Magento admin panel. It occurs when you try to access a page you don't have permission to enter because of the wrong credentials or user role. Magento error 2: bashihor

Magento catalog price rules is one of the greatest built-in marketing tools the platform provides. They allow you to and run sale campaigns more easily without any third-party implementations, same as cart price rules. So, in this article, you will learn everything you need to know about Magento 2 catalog price rules, how to configure them and what differentiates them from the cart price rules. Without any further ado, let's dive in and define what stands by catalog rules. What is Magento Catalog Price Rule? Magento catalog price rule is a set of conditions based on customer group, product attributes, and other conditions you use to assign discounts to products in the catalog. If the product falls under conditions of the catalog prices rule, the discount is applied to it and displayed directly in the catalog. Due to that, catalog price rules don't use coupon codes and customers see discounts while browsing through your store. This encourages them to purchase more. So, how do you set themihor

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

An XML sitemap is an important aspect of technical SEO that serves as a roadmap for search robots. Having an ensures search robots don't miss any important pages of your store and can index the newest of them faster.  Generally, it is a file with all links to your website: products, categories, CMS, and blog pages. However, usually, you don't have to display all of the pages in the search, correspondingly not all of them have to be crawled and indexed.  While you can add the directives for search robots in the , it is easier just to exclude pages from the XML sitemap in Magento 2. So, in this article, you will learn how to do this from the admin panel, with no technical configurations required. All you need is the . To exclude pages from Magento XML sitemap:  1. Choose what pages you want to remove from XML sitemap.  Note: Magefan XML Sitemap Extension allows you to remove any product, category, CMS, or Magefan Blog pages from the sitemap. Let's exclude the Customer Serviceihor

Related products, cross-sells, up-sells, and definitely drive customers' attention to your products and help you increase sales. Still, they attract customers to products that are already popular and sell well.  Correspondingly, it raises the question of how to put new products out there and expose them to a wider audience. So, today, we'll provide an answer to that and discuss the best way to attract customer's attention to the newest products or Magento New Arrivals.  We'll show you how to add them automatically for multiple pages and change New Arrivals dynamically with .  With no further ado, let's try to add the New Arrival product in Magento 2. You need to  that will display new products on multiple pages of your store at once. For that go to Marketing > Automatic Related Products > Rules and press the Add New Rule button. 1. Configure General Rule Information The first thing you have to do is Enable the rule, and give it a Name and Description which will be usedihor

Magento Two-factor Authentication is one of many ways to and prevent unauthorized access to your data. Correspondingly all admin users have to complete the authorization process to verify their identity before logging in. Two-Factor authentication is available in the latest Magento 2.4 version by default and supports multiple authenticators like Google Authenticator, Suo, Authy, and U2F keys. So it is easy for you to configure it and generate access codes for different users to add an additional layer of security.   However, if your website is in the development stage or if you work on the testing environment you might need to disable two factor authentication in Magento. To disable 2F Authentication in Magento 2 you just need to run the following command: php bin/magento module:disable Magento_TwoFactorAuth Note: it is not recommended to disable two-factor authentication unless you have to. If you want to grant some developers access to your installation so they can debug some issuesihor