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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

Imagine that you need to display a sale offer, share news, or notify your customers about an upcoming event. What is the first option that pops up in your head? Perhaps, banners. These are some of the best solutions when you need to encourage customers to participate in your campaigns.  In Magento, you can add a banner to pretty much any page in your store: homepage, category, product, customer account, and CMS page. You can do this either via Magento insert image functionality or different . In this guide though, you'll learn how to manage banners in Magento without too much effort. And we're getting started! Add Banner in Magento via Blocks and Widgets The most basic way to add banners in Magento is through the widgets. 1. Go to Content > Blocks and press the Add New Block button. 2. Enable the Block, specify its Title and Identifier, and select what Store Views to display it on. 3. Press the Image Insert tool in your editor, add the banner, and don't forget to Save the CMS blockihor

When you want to display related products in Magento, the first pages you think might be relevant to display them on are products and categories. However, CMS pages also have great potential in attracting customers to your products.   Since Magento doesn't provide this functionality by default, displaying related products on CMS pages automatically is powered by Extension. And in this guide, you'll learn how to do this. Note: related products widget is configured quite the same as other Magento widgets. However, before you configure it, make sure to . To create auto related products widget in Magento: 1. Navigate to Content > Widgets and press the Add Widget button. 2. Fill out the basic widget Settings. Select the Auto Related Products Block as the widget Type. Define the Design Theme and press Continue. 3. Configure the Storefront Properties. Enter the Widget Title. Select what Store Views to Assign the auto-related products widget to. 4. Define where to display the widget in the Layoutihor

Except for the plenty of other sales approaches and marketing tips, related products stay an old but gold, and effective way to increase conversions. Magento provides you with an easy way to that requires nothing but plenty of manual work.  Since not everyone is willing to spend too much time on assigning related products, cross-sells and up-sells there is the Extension. It allows you to set up related products based on multiple conditions.  So, in this guide, you'll learn how to create Magento 2 related product rules for more targeted product recommendations. To create related product rules in Magento 2: 1. Navigate to Marketing > Automatic Related Products > Rules and press the Add New Rule button. 2. Fill out General Rule Information. Enable the Rule. Give it a Name and set a Description with internal notes in case you have multiple similar rules and need to quickly differentiate between them. Set the auto-related products rule Priority. Note: it defines which rule will be appliedihor

Magento shipping methods refer to the price and method of delivering products to customers. Just like , shipping options are important elements of the customer journey that can influence their purchasing decision.  That said, the more options you provide, the more diverse the experience your customers get. Fortunately, there are different shipping methods available out of the box. So you can create a flexible checkout experience for your customers. In this guide, you'll learn about the basic shipping settings in Magento 2, review all default Magento shipping options, and discover tips for effective shipping methods management. Let's begin! Configure Magento Shipping Settings Before we get to the shipping methods you need to configure the Magento 2 shipping settings. It is necessary so Magento can and shipping costs based on the shipping origin. Thus, navigate to Stores > Configuration > Sales > Shipping Settings and configure Origin and Shipping Policy Parameters. In the Origin sectionihor

Magento 2 related products are one of the best in-built tools to boost sales and improve the customer shopping experience. It is also a great way to increase the average order value and encourage customers to buy more. When managed properly, Magento related products can yield outstanding results. So, today you'll learn how to add Magento 2 related products block to product pages. We'll also share how to add related products to categories, CMS pages, and shopping cart, and turn the process into . Before we more any further, let's define what related products are in Magento are how they are different from the cross-sells and up-sells.  What are Magento 2 Related Products? Magento related products is a feature that allows you to add additional items to the product page to provide an alternative option. Unlike , related products don't have to be pricier or unrelated to the product customers initially landed on. Related products are usually based on similar product relations, like the sameihor

With the growing number of empowered customers, merchants look for robust online solutions to provide a better customer experience and drive new audiences. Magento is one of the greatest eCommerce platforms with a sophisticated set of options that make following an online route significantly easier for your business.  It offers you a flexible, scalable, and user-friendly approach to increasing revenue through better service. So, in this article, we'll discuss why is Magento best for eCommerce website development by defining unique features that make it stand out among other solutions. You'll find out why the global brands prefer Magento and how it benefits your business. Open Source Platform To stand out and fit the needs of the growing market you have to improve and develop your store constantly. Magento is an open-source technology that best suits that requirement for several reasons. It means you can exceed the default functional with the and customize your store. Magento allows youihor

Sometimes when you use Magento 2 you can get the Magento catalog_product_super_link table doesn`t exists error. It appears because some module tries to make an SQL request with SQL query that includes "catalog_product_super_link" table and the table does not exist. So actually, the error is self-explaining. Why catalog_product_super_link table might not exist? This table is defined in Magento 2 module Magento_ConfigurableProduct. So please make sure it is enabled in app/etc/config.php. If not, enable it by changing 0 to 1 in the right part, e.g: 'Magento_ConfigurableProduct' => 1, Then, run the following commands: bin/magento setup:upgradebin/magento setup:di:compilebin/magento setup:static-content:deploy If this does not help, then you can create the table using these SQL queries (you can run them e.g. in phpMyAdmin): Attention! Replace "prefix_" and "PREFIX_" with your actual Magento 2 database prefix, or just remove them if you don't use the prefix for the database table names. CREATEihor

Product management in Magento could be tough or easy depending on the number of products you have. You need to edit product prices, update related products, or any other product attributes. In any case, you need Magento mass product actions at hand.  Unfortunately, Magento doesn't provide the most important product mass actions by default. However, here you'll learn how to exceed the default functionality with the . Change Attribute Set in Bulk An attribute set in Magento is a set of features assigned to each product type. You might need to in case you have to add new features to a product or upgrade them to a new level. Whatever the cause, you need this Magento mass product action for better product management.  Mass Change Stock Status Product stock is something you have to pay close attention to. When customers land on your product page the last thing they want to see is the OUT OF STOCK label. Sure, you can enable the to receive a message when you run out of some products. Howeverihor

Though some merchants don't like it, is a much better alternative to forced registration. It is a great option for those who want to place orders fast and with no extra steps required. Sometimes even registered customers place orders as guests since it is more convenient.  At the same time, both you and your customers can't keep track of those orders. But only until now since we have a solution — . It allows you to manually or automatically. However, there is also an option to allow customers to track their guest orders. Allow Customers to Assign Guest Orders First, navigate to the Stores > Configuration > Magefan Extensions > Guest to Customer and enable the Allows Customer to Assign Their Guest Orders option. Additionally, you can choose the Confirmation Email Template that is sent to customers. That's all required on your side. Now let's see how it works for your customers. Once registered customers who placed orders as guests login to their account, they see the following notification:ihor

drives customers' purchasing decisions and is one of the most frequently edited product attributes. You edit prices in Magento often to fit your customers' needs and create attractive offers. The default Magento functional makes editing prices a daunting task for high-scale stores. Going to each product editing page and changing a price is not an option if you have to edit hundreds or thousands of products.  In this case, a Magento 2 bulk price update is the only solution. So, today you'll learn how to bulk update product prices in Magento with . Magento 2 Bulk Price Update via Grid (Fixed) To bulk update product prices in Magento: 1. Navigate to Catalog > Products and select products which you want to update prices for. 2. Enter a new price at the top editing menu and press Apply. 3. Save Edits once you see the new price applied to the selected products. Products will be displayed with the edited price in the product grid as well as on the storefront after you save the changes. Howeverihor

As competition grows stronger it becomes harder to find the balance between delivering exceptional content and leveraging the search rankings. eCommerce product page SEO becomes an afterthought while most of the SEO efforts are dedicated to the homepage, categories, and content pages. It is a missed opportunity since optimized products are a source of targeted and conversion-ready traffic. So, in this guide, you'll learn everything you need to know about product page optimization. It will help you to boost your pages to Page 1 on Google and beat out the competition. We've gathered the winning product page SEO tactics in one place to help you meet your target customer and drive more attention to your products. 1. Implement a keywords strategy People searching for products online usually are pretty sure what they want to buy. That's why the first thing you need to optimize SEO for product pages is to develop a results-driven keyword strategy.  Product pages usually have transactionalihor

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

Dear Magefan customers, It's been a month since all world faced a terror later sworn to not happen again — War!  It's been a month since all Ukrainians woke up in a new reality where air raid sirens go off several times a day bringing uncertainty and fear of being bombed.  It's been a month during which hiding in bomb shelters and basements became more often than walking outside. The unprovoked aggression towards our country justified by a dictatorship maniac takes the lives of innocent people.  Though there is plenty of information around, we'd like to share our thoughts and feeling about these horrifying days Ukrainians are defending the world's right to freedom and peace.  How Did Ukraine Change? Everything changed when russian "peacekeepers" came to "save" the Ukrainian nation from imaginary nazis and fascists. And they did succeed, if we can call it so, in "saving" us from a steady supply of essential items like water, food and medicine, cosy homes, beautiful squares, parksihor

According to the each product and category should have a unique meta titles and description. However, if you have ever tried to optimise meta tags manually, you know it's impossible to cover them for all pages as your store scales into thousands of products. That's when Magento 2 meta tags templates come into play to automate the process. So, today you'll learn how to generate meta tags in Magento, make them dynamic and optimise according to the best practices.  What are Magento 2 Meta Tags Templates? Magento meta tags templates are predefined SEO patterns that automatically generate meta titles, descriptions, keywords and H1 tags using dynamic variables like product name, price, category or brand, etc. Instead of writing metadata for each page one by one, you create a template once and apply it to multiple pages. e.g. instead of creating 1000 unique product meta tags, you can create product meta tag template like: Buy {product_name} Online | {store_name}. Once the template is appliedihor

Content duplication is one of the most common SEO issues plenty of websites face even if they don't practice cross-platform promotion or publish the same content on different pages.  If you can relate and want to learn how to fix it, you've come to the right place.  We'll get you familiar with canonical tags and everything you need to know about them to avoid content duplication issues in terms of the .  To begin with, let's find out what canonical tags are. What are Canonical Tags? Canonical tags also referred to as rel="canonical" are pieces of HTML code that define the main version among similar or duplicate pages. Canonical tags tell search engines about the definite URL in case you have pages with similar content or the same page available via different URLs. So, in other words, you tell Google what version of the page should appear in search results, unless you want search engines to make that choice for you. You can find the canonical tag in the <head> section of the pageihor

A sitemap is a vital part of the technical SEO that helps you to get your Magento website crawled, indexed, and discovered. Search engines read a sitemap to discover new pages, define how often they are updated, and rank them depending on the validity of information they provide. However, when it comes to generating sitemaps, people get confused about what sitemap to use. So, in this article, you'll discover what is the difference between HTML and XML sitemaps, whether you should use them both and find out how use them according to the . To begin with, let's define what these sitemaps are used for. What is XML Sitemap? The is the machine-readable sitemap created in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) that contains information about all of your website URLs along with the metadata. The metadata includes information about how important is the URL, when it was last updated, how frequently it is updated, the relation of the URL to other URLs in the sitemap, etc. Webmasters use the XML sitemapihor

Magento 2 HTML Sitemap is a must for better navigation and customer satisfaction since it provides concise information about your website pages. Besides, it makes it easier and faster for search crawlers to discover these pages. However, don't confuse it with the XML sitemap, since are not the same. Today you'll learn how to create HTML sitemap in Magento 2 without any complex configuration. You just need . How to Create HTML Sitemap in Magento 2? 1. Navigate to Stores > Configuration > Magefan Extensions > HTML Sitemap. 2. Select where to Display HTML Sitemap Link In — Top Links or Footer Links. 3. Choose where to Open Links — in a new tab or in the same tab. 4. Set up links for CMS Pages, Products, Categories, Blog Posts, and Categories. All of the pages have the same configurations. Enable the Display Product Links option to add the page links to the Magento HTML sitemap. Specify the Block Title that will be displayed on the sitemap page. Set the Block Position, which defines where toihor

Magento 2 recently viewed products and Magento compare products are the default features of the platform. They allow you to use widgets to display products customers have recently viewed or compared. Your customers don't have to spend time going through the catalogue looking for the products they liked on their last visit. Once they come back to your website, these products will be waiting for them. Want to offer product recommendations based on frequently viewed products? Check out our guide on how to set up block. Before adding the recently viewed and compared products to any of your Magento 2 store pages you need to go through the list of general options. Configure Magento 2 Recently Viewed/Compared Products Follow these steps to configure the Magento 2 recently viewed and compared products: Go to Stores > Configuration > Catalog > Catalog and unfold the Recently Viewed/Compared Products section. Choose whether to Synchronize widget products with backend storage. Decide if you want toihor

Categories in Magento are one of the ways to improve navigation and help customers find relevant items faster. Although it's relatively easy to , it's not so easy to manage.  After you create categories, you need to add products to them manually. It's a long process, especially if you have a lot of categories to group products by. But not for the Extension. Today we'll prove it to you and create multiple categories in Magento automatically, from scratch. Moreover, these categories will already have products added to them. All you need is a few simple options. Step 1: Set Basic Rule Information To start creating your categories navigate to Catalog > Dynamic Category > Rules and press the Add New Rule button. Here, enable the rule, give it a Name and a Description, and set a Priority. The latter defines how the rule will be processed. The higher the number the later it will be applied. Step 2: Define the Pattern First, choose Pattern as a category Type. Then select a Parent Categoryihor

One of the most important things customers are extremely cautious about when shopping online is their personal data. That's why there is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) required by the government to ensure this data is stored, managed, and processed in compliance with the customer's rights. However, this regulation doesn't only protect your customers' interests. It makes your store protected too. Being protects your store from penalties and lawsuits for inappropriate data processing. That's why today we'll discuss the best GDPR that will help you to provide your customers with more control over the data their share with you. Let's dive in. Comparison: Top GDPR Mdules for Magento Vendor Extension Name Price Guarantees Rating Magento 2 GDPR Extension by Plumrocket $199.00 100% Open Code 60 Days Refund Policy 1 Year of Free Updates 1 Year of Free Support 4.9 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 16 reviews GDPR for Magento 2 by Mirasvit $219.00 100% Open Code 30 Days Refund Policy 1 Year Free Updates 1 Yearihor