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Change log for Magento 2 Blog Extension

We do our best in order to release new versions of the Blog extension with new features at least once a two month. We also release compatibility changes for new Magento versions and bug fixes as soon as possible. You can always download new Blog module versions archive on our website or via the composer. In case you need some new features or if you have any questions don't hesitate to contact us.

 

Attention! Magento 2 Blog is no longer compatible with Magento v2.1.x. If you use Magento v2.1 the latest available version for you is Blog 2.9.0.

Version 2.12.2 (December 30, 2024)

Features:

  • - Updated package magefan/module-wysiwyg-advanced to 2.0.16 , to enable TinyMCE7 support.
  • - Fixed the "Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in  ShortContentExtractor.php" error for Blog v2.12.1.

Version 2.12.1 (December 23, 2024)

Features

  • - Added the "Meta Robots" option to blog posts, categories, and authors (blog tags already have this option).
  • - Added the customer group identifier to the sidebar category tree cache key information.
  • - Improved short content and meta description generation.
  • - Improved CSV import. (Blog Extra)
  • - Added an option to include/exclude a category from the sidebar category tree.
  • - Added the "Bottom Content" option to the blog category. (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Added the "Authors" widget. (Blog Extra)
  • - Minor improvements.

Fixes:

  • - Fixed the "Error filtering template:Invalid method helper" error.

Version 2.12.0 (September 20, 2024)

Features:

  • - Added option to create a blog post and featured image using AI (ChatGPT) (Blog Extra).
  • - Improved blog import from Google Blogger via CSV import (Blog Extra).
  • - Improved redirects on URL key change (Blog Plus and Extra).
  • - Added image to blog category and tag (Blog Plus and Extra).
  • - Added category and tag images to the category grid and tags in the admin panel.
  • - Added post Image to the post grid in the admin panel.
  • - Product Widget has been updated to version 2.0.14.
  • - Added information about the co-author to all templates for the post list.
  • - Added LinkedIn share button.
  • - Added an option to define what social network is available in share buttons.
  • - Added an option to disable Bootstrap v4.4.1 Custom Mini CSS that comes with our module, this can be useful when you already have Bootstrap CSS or there have been СSS conflicts.
  • - Disabled "Publish Posts On Facebook" cronjob (Blog Plus & Extra).
  • - Code style improvements and other minor code improvements.

Fixes:

  • - Fixed an issue with removing categories from the post if they have been added.
  • - Fixed an issue with removing the co-authors for the post, if they have been added (Blog Extra).

 


 

Version 2.11.6 (August 1, 2024)

Fixes:

  • - Fixed an issue with syntax error in the file view/frontend/templates/lazyload-js.phtml.
  • - Fixed an issue during categories import in the WordPress import.

 


 

Version 2.11.5 (July 17, 2024)

Features:

  • - Security improvements. Now Magento SecureRenderer is used to whitelist an inline script.
  • - Auto 301 redirects from disabled categories and tag pages to the Blog homepage.
  • - Added "Page Number To Page Title" functionality on pagination.
  • - Changed the cron task execution schedule for auto-related posts and product generations,  from once an hour to once a day. (Blog Plus and Extra).
  • - Improved export from Hubspot (Blog Extra).
  • - New Blog Hyvä package v2.0.6 (magefan/hyva-theme-blog-plus, magefan/hyva-theme-blog-extra) available with design and security improvement (Blog Plus and Extra).
  • - Minor code improvement.

 

Version 2.11.4 (May 21, 2024)

Features:

  • - Improved blog rich snippets.
  • - Added compatibility for the sidebar tag cloud with the Hyva theme.
  • - Hyva theme compatibility is now available only in the Plus and Extra plans.

Fixes:

  • - Fixed Error: Call to a member function getItemById() on array in Model/UrlResolver.php.

Version 2.11.3 (April 16, 2024)

Features:

  • - Added the reading_progress_bar on the blog post page (Blog Extra). 
  • - Option to group blog post archives not only "by Month and Year", but also "by Year".
  • - Added Article rich snippet in addition to BlogPosting and NewsArticle.
  • - Blog performance (speed) improvements.
  • - Improved blog post images in the sitemap XML.
  • - Improved the pt_BR locale.
  • - Removed the "Publish Posts On Facebook (Blog+)" option. It is deprecated now.
  • - Improved blog import from Mageplaza.
  • - Minor code improvements.

Fixes:

  • - Minor errors on PHP8. 
  • - Fixed the issue with the meta description being duplicated on the pagination pages. Now the "Page N - "prefix is added.
  • - Fixed the incorrect message displayed during the incorrect connection to the database during import.

Version 2.11.2 (February 26, 2024)

Fixes:

  • - Not all authors are displayed in the author select box on the blog post edit page in the admin panel. (Blog Basic and Plus v2.11.1 only).

Version 2.11.1 (February 21, 2024)

Features:

  • - Multiple authors for the same post. Co-author feature (Blog Extra).
  • - Option to create automatic 301 redirects on a blog post, category, tag URL Key change (Blog Plus & Extra).
  • - Ability to reply to a blog comment directly from the admin panel.
  • - Option to set a description for the blog homepage.
  • -  Added option to set average reading time for a post.
  • - Option to add custom CSS in the blog settings (in the admin panel).
  • - Added NewsArticle rich snippet in addition to BlogPosting. Now there is a new "Rich Snippet / Structured Data" option for each post.
  • - Improved Author Rich Snippet on the author page (Blog Extra).
  • - Included blog post featured image and gallery images to the XML Sitemap.
  • - Option to include blog authors and tags to the XML Sitemap (Blog Plus & Extra).
  • - Improvements for the GraphQl requests.
  • - Created REST API Postman examples.
  • - Updated Twitter share button to "X".
  • - Option to display blog related products in the sidebar. 
  • - New Carousel Slider template for related blog posts block (Blog Extra).
  • - Improved compatibility with Magento 2 WebP Images Extension.
  • - Minor code Improvements.

Version 2.11.0 (August 28, 2023)

Features:

  • - XML Sitemap Refactoring. Now blog homepage, blog posts and categories are included in the general Magento XML Sitemap. If you wish to keep a separate blog sitemap, you can manage it with a separate Blog Sitemap Extension.
  • - Option "Page Pagination Type" in Advanced Permalink Settings that allows to enable ?p=N and  /page/N to default pagination type ?page=N (Blog Plus & Extra).
  • - Option to display related blog products in the sidebar.
  • - Avoid canonical tag duplicates when a canonical tag is added manually via the Layout Update XML field.
  • - Improved meta description generation.
  • - Termination of the Russian localization.
  • - Minor code improvements.

Version 2.10.14 (May 29, 2023)

Features:

  • - Replaced deprecated AddThis share buttons with new share buttons that work without third-party services.
  • - Improved blog post short content building.
  • - Option to select а template for posts on the blog search page.
  • - Additional compatibility changes for PHP8.2.
  • - Improved page cache invalidation.
  • - Minor code improvements.

Fixes:

  • - Template 5-1-full posts duplication (Blog Extra).
  • - Posts lazy loading does not work on the latest Magento versions (error on jQuery 3).

Version 2.10.13 (April 04, 2023)

Features:

  • - Added compatibility with PHP8.2.
  • - Added ability to select images from Media Gallery.
  • - Blog Post Canonical URLs now always point to a current store view.
  • - Improved Permalink settings.
  • - AddThis share icons can be managed via AddThis account from now on.
  • - Added Sidebar Content widget (Blog Extra).
  • - Design improvements - inherit more colours from the theme.
  • - Added primary column to the magefan_blog_product_tmp db table (Blog Plus & Extra).

Version 2.10.12 (March 07, 2023)

Features:

  • - Option to set custom blog category canonical URL.
  • - Option to reset extension config options to use system values.
  • - Localization vocabularies update.
  • - Improved Import for Hubspot Wizard.
  • - Improved CSV import.
  • - Design improvements for compatibility with different themes.
  • - PHP 8.1 code compatibility changes.
  • - Minor code improvements.

Fixes:

  • - "Previous" and "Next Post" linked to wrong articles.

Version 2.10.11 (November 25, 2022)

Features:

Fixes:

  • - After selecting post IDs for the feature posts widget via grid there is no option to change their position.

Version 2.10.10 (August 17, 2022)

Features:

  • - GraphQL compatibility with PWA Studio v12.6.0.
  • - Option to assign Blog Author to a specific store view or website (Blog Extra).
  • - Post sorting by End Date (Blog Extra).
  • - Post Sort By option for the recent blog posts widget.
  • - Compatibility with the latest Amasty XML Sitemap extension.
  • - Support for capitalized tag names.
  • - Minor code improvements.

Fixes:

  • - Error "Cannot instantiate abstract class AbstractResource" on CSV/XML import (Blog Extra).

Version 2.10.9 (June 27, 2022)

Features:

  • - Post Publication End Date. (Blog Extra).
  • - Disabled or expired posts auto-redirect to the blog homepage.
  • - Include Blog_GraphQL module to the package.
  • - Option to disable blog CSS on non-blog pages in the extension settings.
  • - Added Slovak (sk_SK) and Czech (cs_CZ) locales (Thanks to Matus Stafura pull request).
  • - Selecting posts for the featured blog posts using a grid.
  • - Changed pagination page meta title. Now it is "Page N - Title".
  • - Changed robots meta tag for search, author, and tag pagination pages.
  • - Additional PHP 8.1 and Magento 2.4.4. compatibility changes.
  • - Minor code improvements.

Fixes:

  • - Error on post edit in Magento 2.4.4: Deprecated Functionality: stripos(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($haystack) in AdminhtmlBlockHtmlBeforeObserver.php on line 125 (Blog Plus and Extra)
  • - Rel Prev/Next meta links added to the blog homepage when using static block for this page, with no pagination.

Version 2.10.8 (May 11, 2022)

Features:

  • - Additional PHP 8.1 and Magento 2.4.4. compatibility changes.

Version 2.10.7 (April 18, 2022)

Features:

  • - PHP 8.1 and Magento 2.4.4. compatibility.
  • - SEO Rel Prev/Next links for the blog post list pages (e.g. blog index page, blog categories, tags, author, archive).
  • - SEO Canonical URL on blog post list pages now includes page number parameter.
  • - Pagination pages now have INDEX,FOLLOW SEO meta robots parameter.
  • - SEO rich snippets improvements.
  • - Improved blog import wizard for AheadWorks Magento 2 Blog (Blog Extra).
  • - Added Polish localization (Thanks to jq91 pull request).
  • - Option to disable page builder for Blog pages

Version 2.10.6 (March 12, 2022)

Features:

  • - Comparability of Contents Widget with Magento 2 AMP Extension (Blog Extra).
  • - Improved French localization.
  • - Minor improvements.

Fixes:

  • - Meta description is not pulled out from the content if use Page Builder .
  • - Open Graph image from the blog post is not recognized by Facebook.
  • - Posts in the featured posts widget do not follow the posts IDs order.
  • - Posts lazy loading does not work on some templates.

Version 2.10.5 (January 20, 2022)

Features:

  • - Improved Blog Post Structure Data (Rick Snippets Schema).
  • - Minor storefront design improvements.
  • - Allow using more than 2 slash characters in post URL keys (Blog Plus & Extra).

Fixes:

  • - Duplicate authors after import from Amasty Blog extension for Magento 1.
  • - Infinite page refresh loop on search result page when results are not found.

Version 2.10.4 (November 16, 2021)

Features:

  • - Import from Amasty Blog Pro Extension for Magento 2 (Blog Extra).
  • - Improved compatibility with Magento 2 Hreflang Tags (Blog Plus & Extra).
  • - Image resize and lazy-load for blog posts background images on a post list.
  • - Minor code improvements and fixes.

Version 2.10.3 (September 16, 2021)

Features:

  • - Improved migration from CSV/XML and Joomla (Blog Extra).
  • - Added compatibility with Amasty XmlSitemap extension.
  • - CSP Whitelist for AddThis share buttons js, css, images.
  • - Allow to make the recent/featured post widget title empty and not display the default one.
  • - Minor code improvements.

Fixes:

  • - Duplicated suffix added on post listing with pagination.
  • - RSS Feed URL in XML does not match the expected URL.
  • - SQL error on blog search.
  • - Missing native theme colors on blog pages when using a custom theme.
  • - Misspelling in Magefan\BlogPlus\Controller\Adminhtml\Accesstoken\Longlived class (Blog Plus & Extra).

Version 2.10.2 (July 16, 2021)

Features:

  • - Blog posts export to CSV (Blog Extra).
  • - Improved CSV import (Blog Extra).
  • - Added 3 new templates for the blog post lists (block-2-1-shortcontent, block-2-2-shortcontent, block-2-3-shortcontent) (Blog Extra).
  • - Blog Import from Drupal (Blog Extra).
  • - Blog GraphQL v2.1.2 with multi-store support.
  • - Updated YouTube widget (Blog Extra)
  • - Minor code improvements.
  • - CSS stylesheet improvements.
  • - Code style improvements.

Fixes:

  • - Featured widget uses a sidebar featured posts block template.
  • - Issue with blog posts lazy loading when new blog templates are used.
  • - CSS conflict with "fa" fonts.

Version 2.10.1 (May 11, 2021)

Fixes:

  • - Notice "$tagPostIdsCount is undefined".
  • - Error "Function is_countable does not exists" on PHP < 7.3.
  • - Error when creating a new category if related posts are assigned (Blog Extra).
  • - Short content displays 510 characters only in new post list templates (Blog Extra v2.10.0).

Version 2.10.0 (May 1, 2021)

Features:

  • - Design improvements. New templates for post view page, related posts, prev/next link, sidebar post blocks.
  • - 22+ new templates for the blog post lists (Blog Extra).
  • - Blog post contents widget (Blog Extra).
  • - Option to define a number of posts to display for each category, tag, author page and blog homepage.
  • - Option to build blog homepage using recent and featured blog post widgets only.
  • - Option to not repeat blog posts in recent posts widget if multiple widgets are used on the same page.
  • - New Import methods. Import from Magento 1 Amasty Blog, Import from CSV/XML file. Import from Ecs Articles Magento 1 module. Import from Magento 1 EM Blog. Import from Hubspot. Import from Joomla (Blog Extra)
  • - Option to show/hide post images in blog sidebar blocks.
  • - Added Finnish - FINLAND (fi_FI) locale.
  • - Minor bug fixes.

Version 2.9.8 (February 24, 2021)

Features:

  • - Assign Blog Tags to a specific store view.
  • - Improved Post Search in general Magento catalog search. (Blog Extra)
  • - Blog GraphQL v2.1.1 with new fields for Blog Author endpoint. Check Blog GraphQL Schema.
  • - Updated Product Widget and YouTube widget (Blog Extra)
  • - Minor code improvements.

Fixes:

  • - Error addDebug function is not defined while performing blog import.
  • - Display short content is broken on Magento 2.4.2 EE & ECE.
  • - Trailing slash is missing for blog main page in sitemap.xml when enable trailing slash for the blog pages.
  • - Canonical URL is different for a post that assigned for different categories and category URL is a part of post URL (Canonical URL issue).
  • - The issue with Auto-related products & posts generation. (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Cannot select custom page layout in the Blog extension settings.
  • - 404 error on post page that does not assign to any blog category and Advanced permalink settings are enabled and category path is used for post URL. (Blog Plus & Extra)

Version 2.9.7 (October 29, 2020)

Features:

  • - Blog GraphQL v2.1.0 with new endpoins, mutions and fields. Check Blog GraphQL Schema.
  • - Integrated blog search into the general Magento catalog search (Blog Extra).
  • - Display posts from the same category on the post storefront page (Blog Extra).
  • - Manage related blog posts from the product edit page (Blog Plus & Extra).

Fixes:

  • - Blog admin grids do not save state (order, filter, page number).
  • - Do Not Display Product On Post Page option does not work (Blog Plus & Extra).
  • - Wrong comment date on non en_US storefront locale.
  • - Can edit and save tag with the name of another tag.
  • - If delete the customer, the comment author name is missing.
  • - magefan_blog_product_tmp database table is populated even if post auto-related products are disabled (Blog Plus & Extra).

Version 2.9.6 (August 6, 2020)

Fixes:

  • - Errors while uploading blog post images (Magento 2.4.x only).
  • - Error blog storefront post view page (Magento 2.4.x only).
  • - Datepicker saves wrong data if using non en_US locale in the admin panel.

Version 2.9.5 (July 14, 2020)

Features:

  • - Added blog import wizard from Magento 1 Mageplaza Extension.
  • - Now each blog import wizard has DataBase connection form.
  • - Added page number to the meta title on second, thierd, etc., post list pages.
  • - Added Admin Email Notification
  • - Security improvements.
  • - Added Turkish locale.
  • - Minor code improvements.

Fixes:

  • - Page title and Meta title always the same on Blog Archive, Author, Tag pages.
  • - Instead of resent posts and featured posts double resent posts block is displayed.
  • - RSS Feed contain include SCRIPT tags, that is not allowed.
  • - Fatal error when using Blog Link widgets and forgot to define element ID.
  • - Error when try to reach blog search page without search query, e.g. /blog/search
  • - Conflict in Blog SitemapXml with MageWorx XmlSitemap

Version 2.9.4 (April 29, 2020)

Features:

  • - Added Magento 2.3.5 compatibility changes.
  • - Updated WYSIWYG Advanced editor (magefan/module-wysiwyg-advanced v2.0.7 release).
  • - Added notification about other enabled blog extensions to report potential conflicts.
  • - Blog comments publication date on the storefront is now displayed based on the shop timezone.
  • - Category_id parameter in Blog RSS Feed URL (e.g. blog/rss/feed?category_id=3) is now available for use to include articles only from the specific categories.
  • - Blog GraphQL Improvements (Magento 2 Blog GraphQL v2.0.3 release).
  • - Updated YouTube widget (Blog Extra)

Fixes:

  • - Error on a blog post search page.
  • - Post comments count does not update if the comment is deleted.

Version 2.9.3 (March 14, 2020)

Features:

  • - Post Short Content End Сharacters configuration, e.g. "...".
  • - Option to automatically 301 redirect to blog URL with "/" at the end for blog URLs in addition to auto 301 redirect to non-slash URL.
  • - Improved URL key validation.
  • - Blog Post Related Products now use the default catalog related products template. I case you have an issue with the related product template after the extension update, please check this article.
  • - Automatic page cache cleanup for product pages with related blog posts that were changed.
  • - Added startStoreEmulation and stopStoreEmulation methods to the blog URL model.
  • - Improved nl_NL locale.
  • - Blog AMP related product template update (Magento 2 Blog AMP v2.0.2 release).
  • - Blog GraphQL error fix for Magento 2.3.4 (Magento 2 Blog GraphQL v2.0.2 release).
  • - Compatible with Magento 2 Alternate Hreflang v2.0.2.
  • - Code improvements.

Fixes:

  • - Fixed broken encoding when import non-utf-8 blog content.
  • - After re-save blog post sometimes blog tags disappear [Blog v2.9.2 only].
  • - Error on post save: Something went wrong while saving this post. Invalid input datetime format of value.
  • - Error on post save: Undefined index in $allTags array during save post in admin panel [Blog v2.9.1-2.9.2 only].

Version 2.9.2.1 (January 29, 2020)

This version available for download on our website or the composer, module.xml still include v2.9.2, to make sure you have updated to 2.9.2.1 check the composer.json file

Fixes:

  • - Front controller reached 100 router match iterations on Blog v2.9.2

Version 2.9.2 (January 25, 2020)

Features:

  • - Created Blog pages URL resolver for GraphQL (Magento 2 Blog GraphQL v2.0.1 release), removed BlogPlus url router.
  • - Display artice featured image on recent posts widget in sidebar
  • - Added {month} and {year} variables in advanced permalinks settings. Now post URL can look like https://domain.com/2020-01/post-title.html (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Added checks for category, post URL key duplication
  • - Improved URL key generation
  • - Improved blog catgegory duplication
  • - Added PHP7.4 compatability
  • - Added "required field" validation for the blog URL routes in permalink settings
  • - Make Magento build in comments as default istead of Facebook ones
  • - Removed page identifier from the Disqus comments JS config
  • - Option to add the Facebook Application ID (fb:app_id) to the HEAD tag on the post page when using Facebook comments
  • - Added Blog post, category, tag, author link widgets
  • - Improved validation in comments submit controller
  • - Other minor improvements

Security:

  • - Changed Facebook secret key field type from "password" to "obscure". After extension update need to re-enter secret key (Blog Plus & Extra)

Fixes:

  • - Cannot remove all tags from a blog post
  • - Errors during the blog import
  • - Error on the blog search page, when searching for term that is part of tag's name
  • - Open Graph description contains encoded HTML characters
  • - Autocomplete CSS break the default UI elements styling #298
  • - Related blog posts are not displayed on the Magento EE product page in some page layouts
  • - RSS feed description includes encoded HTML tags
  • - If breadcrumbs are disabled on CMS pages, they're missing on blog pages
  • - Magento EE Admin Gws (error on blog post, category save)
  • - Blog AMP template error (Magento 2 Blog AMP v2.0.1 release)

Version 2.9.1 (October 26, 2019)

Features:

  • - Blog GraphQL. Now you can include the blog into your PWA solution. Available as additional FREE extension magefan/module-blog-graph-ql
  • - Updated Blog comments reCaptcha to v2.0.4. Available as additional FREE extension magefan/module-blog-comments-recaptcha
  • - Code for integration with Magento 2 AMP extension has been moved to additional FREE extension magefan/module-blog-amp
  • - Updated Product Widget and YouTube widget (Blog Extra)
  • - Compatibility with Magento 2 Alternate Hreflang
  • - New post comment email notification for customers, blog post newsletter subscription (Blog Extra)
  • - Default blog pages layout settings. Now in Stores > Configuration, you can set layout (1 column, 2 columns left, 2 columns right, 3 columns) for blog index, post, category, tag, author, search page (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Date Format and Show/Hide article publication date options (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Option to disable comments on an individual blog post (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Post featured image alt tag
  • - Separate (additional) featured image and featured image alt tag for post list (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Improved Magento 2 WYSIWYG TinyMCE 4 editor
  • - Animated Sidebar Tag Cloud
  • - Maximum Tags Number option for Tag Cloud
  • - The blog search algorithm now also work with blog tag names
  • - Related blog posts are now displayed in a tab "Related Posts" on a product page
  • - Article Views Count, Popular (Most Viewed) Posts block in sidebar
  • - Meta title option for blog main page
  • - Slash (/) in blog page identifiers now allowed
  • - Added sv_SE locale
  • - New admin menu item for Blog Block Widgets
  • - Wizard for import data from Mirasvit Blog extension for Magento 2
  • - Performance and code style improvements

Security:

  • - Improved XSS prevention

Fixes:

  • - Blog Article "Display Settings" issue. Was not able to open "Display Settings" section on post edit page in the admin panel when have a lot of blog tags. Post tags input element was changed to jQuery TagsInput & jQuery Autocomplete
  • - Posts are removed from blog category if save category from the grid or any other place exempt category edit page (Blog Extra)
  • - Fixes in advanced permalink settings and auto-publishing to Facebook (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Next/Prev post links loop when a few posts have the same publication date

Version 2.9.0 (July 31, 2019)

Features:

  • - Added ability to manage blog authors independently from Magento 2 admin users (Blog Extra)
  • - Assign blog posts to a category from blog category page (Blog Extra)
  • - Post position by category, sorting posts in a category via drag and drop (Blog Extra)
  • - Extended WYSIWYG editor tools for Magento v2.3 or greater
  • - Improved blog design
  • - Improved import from WordPress
  • - Small fixes and improvements

Fixes:

  • - The issue with blog canonical URL on muli-website store

Other:

  • - Removed Google Plus Comments

Version 2.8.10 (May 29, 2019)

Features:

  • - Added German locale (de_DE)
  • - Added import from AheadWorks Magento 2 Blog extension
  • - Added author filter to the admin post grid (list)
  • - Improved auto URL key generation
  • - Improved post duplication. Unset creation, update and publish time value and set current time for these fields. Does not inherited URL key.
  • - Added new HTML body tag class "blog-page-list" to all blog post pages (e.g. blog category, blog tag, blog search, blog main page, blog archive, blog author)
  • - Added a notice to Blog admin panel pages when Blog extension is disabled

Fixes:

  • - Front controller reached 100 router match iterations for Blog Feed URLs
  • - The issue on Magento 2.3.1 with Page Builder
  • - 404 error on post page when using advanced permalinks with parent category URL (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Magento 2.3.1 EE error in cron/exception log "Unknown column e.entity_id in field list..." (Blog Plus & Extra)

Other:

  • - Changed Blog extension license from OSL-3.0 to EULA

Version 2.8.9 (March 27, 2019)

Features:

Fixes:

  • - Empty blog post edit page on Magento 2.3.1
  • - PHP error on 404 pages when advanced permalinks are enabled (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Post lost related products and posts when changing post status from the grid (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Uploaded featured image with the same name as already exist overrides an existing one (github#187)

Version 2.8.8 (March 2, 2019)

Features:

  • - Improved advanced permalinks (Blog Plus & Extra)

Fixes:

  • - Important security update for blog versions 2.8.3-2.8.7
  • - 404 (Not Found) error on blog search page

Version 2.8.7 (February 9, 2019)

Features:

  • - Option to remove "/" at the end of blog URLs and auto 301 redirect to non-slash URL
  • - Added blog homepage to the XML sitemap
  • - Options to edit blog sitemap XML items priority and change frequency (Blog Plus & Extra)

Bug Fixes:

  • - Blog XML sitemap missing on Magento 2.3.0. Now sitemap XML is available as a separate file "blog_sitemap.xml"

Version 2.8.6 (January 6, 2019)

Features:

  • - Added back Magento 2.1.x compatibility
  • - Added YouTube Widget (Blog Extra)
  • - Added import from Mageplaza Blog Extension for M2
  • - Improved import from AheadWorks Blog Module for M1

Bug Fixes:

  • - Blog search errors
  • - Error: PHP class Magefan\Blog\Block\Adminhtml\ Category\SaveAndContinueButton not found
  • - Minor issues

Version 2.8.5 (November 19, 2018)

Features:

  • - Meta Robots settings for Blog Tag, Author, Search pages

Bug Fixes:

  • - Multi-fulltext index issue
  • - Сropped/Cut links in post short description
  • - Errors on the blog search page ("DOUBLE value is out of range in ...", "Can't find FULLTEXT index matching the column list...")

Version 2.8.4 (November 11, 2018)

Features:

  • - Added save, delete ACL (access control list)
  • - Added save published ACL (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Blog post's related product rules (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Advanced Permalink Settings (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Added black words settings for auto-related posts & products (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Sort posts by title on blog category and index pages
  • - Performance improvements
  • - Improved page cache cleaning for blog category

Bug Fixes:

  • - Blog search error "Can't find FULLTEXT index matching the column list"
  • - Cannot disable canonical URLs for all blog pages
  • - "????" after the non-utf8 blog import
  • - Sitemap does not work with new version of MageWorx XML Sitemap extension

Version 2.8.3 (October 19, 2018)

Features:

  • - Enabled Post Media Gallery by default (magefan/module-blog-m22 now deprecated)
  • - Changed sort ordering for comments replies
  • - Ability to disable/enable blog canonical URLs
  • - Improved AW import (added import comments, tags, short content, featured image)
  • - Improved blog search algorithm
  • - Added "getList" method for blog categories REST API
  • - Extend ACL for Blog REST API
  • - Removed block cache from recent posts sidebar block
  • - Added pt_PT locale
  • - Added el_GR locale

Bug Fixes:

  • - Varnish error "Error 503 Service Unavailable", when have more than many blog posts
  • - Error during installation "Area code is not set"
  • - Robots NOINDEX on the tag page
  • - Related posts missing on product page (Blog Plus & Extra)

Version 2.8.2 (August 12, 2018)

Features:

  • - GDPR Compliant
  • - Auto-related blog posts (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Auto-related blog products (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Postponed publication by bate & time (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Autopublish blog posts on Facebook (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Customer group restrictions (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - Option to define which related posts should be displayed on a product page (Blog Plus & Extra)
  • - ZERO comments info now does not displayed
  • - Improved import from WordPress
  • - Improved RSS Feed

Bug Fixes:

  • - Fix for MageWorx XML Sitemap
  • - Fixed CSS issue with blank icon in search blog form
  • - Fixed issue in blog search
  • - Fixed 404 page issue on post preview
  • - Removed NOINDEX from blog tag page

Version 2.8.1 (May 30, 2018)

Features:

  • - Improved import from WordPress, added comments import
  • - Improved import from AW Blog Extension
  • - Improved blog search
  • - Improved sitemap.xml
  • - Added Post Gallery template for Porto theme

Bug Fixes:

  • - Disabled tag displayed in the tag cloud sidebar

Version 2.8.0 (April 4, 2018)

Features:

  • - Added section in the Magento 2 admin panel to manage Blog Tags
  • - Automatic page cache cleaning during saving the Blog post, category, tag
  • - Added option to sort Posts by the position for Blog Homepage and Blog Category pages
  • - Changed Meta Description's Max. Length from 160 to 300
  • - Added custom template for Smartwave/porto Homepage recent posts

Bug Fixes:

  • - The issue with space in the URL Key during autogeneration
  • - The issue with the connection to the database via socket during import from AW Blog
  • - RSS Feed size, now it contains only 10 posts

Version 2.7.1 (February 10, 2018)

Features:

  • - Integrated Blog sitemap XML into default Magento 2 sitemap (removed blog_sitemap.xml for Magento v2.2.x and greater)
  • - Added a suffix for the tag and author URLs
  • - Added "new version" notification block
  • - Improved multilevel blog menu for Smartwave Megamenu
  • - Removed block cache from custom HTML sidebar block
  • - Added rel nofollow to the post gallery images
  • - Small CSS improvements

Bug Fixes:

  • - Prevent XML External Entity (XXE) Processing
  • - Featured blog posts widget do not show
  • - Temporary fix for Magento issues 6831, 10485
  • - The Issue with Unicode URLs for tags

Version 2.7.0 (January 11, 2018)

Features:

  • - Added category display settings
  • - Added additional restriction by Tag, Author, Publish Date to Blog Recent Posts Widget
  • - Added 2 custom HTML blocks into blog sidebar
  • - Added support for Unicode URLs
  • - Now posts can be excluded from blog homepage, recent blog widget
  • - Improved multilevel Blog Menu for Infortis UltraMegamenu
  • - Small CSS improvements

Bug Fixes:

  • - Fixed issue with display blog AMP pages
  • - Fixed issue with Wordpress Import for specific store view

Version 2.6.2 (December 26, 2017)

Features:

  • - Included blog categories in Navigation Menu
  • - Added Featured Blog Posts Widget
  • - Added improvement for built-in comments
  • - Added blog page types for widget settings
  • - Updated FancyBox js library
  • - Improved URL Key validation
  • - Improved uk_UA locale
  • - Code style fixes 

Bug Fixes:

  • - Fixed issue with missing image gallery on Magento 2.2.x  

Version 2.6.1 (November 03, 2017)

  • - Fixes forBuilt-in Post Comments

Version 2.6.0 (November 03, 2017)

Features:

  • - Added Built-in Post Comments

Bug Fixes:

  • - Fix for breadcrumbs on blog category page
  • - Additional layout fixes for 2.2.0
  • - Code style improvements
  • - Fixed issue with related posts on the product page


Version 2.5.4 (Octobre 23, 2017)

Features:

  • - Added Italian (it_IT) locale
  • - Added ability to unset parent category
  • - Added category column into Posts Grid
  • - Added logging to Blog Import Process

Fixes:

  • - Fix for Magento 2.2.0
  • - Fix for RSS XML when HTML Minify is enabled
  • - Fix post saving issue

Version 2.5.3 (September 6, 2017)

  • - Added the separate field for Short Content


Version 2.5.2 (August 30, 2017)

Features:

  • - Added preview for blog posts
  • - Created separate sitemap for blog pages (https://store.com/blog_sitemap.xml)
  • - Breadcrumbs improvements. Included category into post breadcrumb.
  • - Added suffix for category URL
  • - Ability to include category path into post URL
  • - Added Spanish (es_ES) locale
  • - Added Russian (ru_RU) locale
  • - Improved France (fr_FR) locale


Fixes:

  • - Issue with running blog extension on Windows OS
  • - Allowed Cyrillic identifiers for tags
  • - Small fixes for RSS sidebar icon


Version 2.5.1 (June 9, 2017)

Features:

  • - Added support of Magento EE AdminGws (Admin Global, Website, and Store data scopes restrictions)
  • - SEO improvements. Added "NOINDEX, FOLLOW" to tag, author, archive, search blog pages
  • - Improved import from WordPress
  • - Added Suffix configuration for post URL. Now you can add ".html" to the end of post URL.
  • - Added default short content length. Now ever if you don't setup "read more" tag, post content will be trimmed on the post list.
  • - Improved Dutch Locale
  • - Added Brazilian Locale

Fixes:

  • - Content in blog RSS Feed is now filtered
  • - Issue with blog URLs in Magento admin panel menu
  • - Issue with saving related products & posts
  • - Issue in Breadcrumbs on multi level blog category page
  • - Issue with Lazy Load on some themes
  • - Issue with "Store View" field in the Magento 2 admin panel on post and category grids


Version 2.5.0 (March 30, 2017)

Features:

  • - Added Blog Posts and Categories duplicate
  • - Added Multi-images (gallery) for Blog Post
  • - Extended REST API
  • - Included tags to import from WordPress
  • - Improved translations of Breadcrumbs & Blog Footer Link

Fixes:

  • - Issued with HTML minification
  • - Issued with Main Page Title & Meta Title
  • - Other small issues


Version 2.4.3 (January 22, 2017)

Features:

  • - Added ability to disable/enable blog extension on a specific store view
  • - Allowed to show posts count for Categories in the sidebar widget
  • - Improved dates translation
  • - Improved addthis sharing on posts list

Fixes:

  • - Fixed issue "Tag cloud doesn't list per store tags #56"
  • - Fixed issue with "Store View" field on post & category edit pages in Admin Panel


Version 2.4.2 (December 15, 2016)

  • - Fixed issue with "Previous Post" link

Version 2.4.1 (December 1, 2016)

  • - Fixed issue with code compiler in v2.4.0

Version 2.4.0 (November 30, 2016)

  • - Added support for the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project to provide better mobile optimized content. To enable AMP view on blog pages Magento Amp Extension by Plumrocket is required.
  • - Fixed php workings on pages with post list.
  • - Fixed issues with extra tags on post list.

Version 2.3.3 (November 22, 2016)

  • - Added Chinese and Romanian localization
  • - Improved French localization
  • - Fixed issue with Chinese, Japanese garbled.
  • - Small fixes

Version 2.3.2 (November 15, 2016)

  • - Added Image Helper to solve conflicts with custom versions of blog extension
  • - Localizations added: fr_FR, nl_NL, uk_UA
  • - Updated Router

Version 2.3.1 (Octobre 29, 2017)

Fixed issues:

  • - Post and categories not displayed in Single Store Mode (v2.3.0 only)
  • - Issues during an update from some custom blog version
  • - Missing html closing tags (style braking) on posts list
  • - Import featured images from WordPress

Version 2.3.0 (Octobre 16, 2017)

  • - New User Interface for blog post & category edit pages in Admin Panel.
  • - Added Blog Tags (Many of you asked for it. And now you can easy add tags to your posts).
  • - Added Tag Cloud in the sidebar (New sidebar section with tags is available, you can disable or enable it by your choice).
  • - Added Custom design fields for single blog post and category (This functionality is similar to CMS Pages).
  • - Added Meta Title settings for blog post & category (Previously meta title was taken from the title, which was inconvenient. Now independent Meta title field is available).
  • - Added OG Meta Tags settings for post
  • - Added Link to Previous & Next posts
  • - Other small improvements

Version 2.2.4 (August 03, 2016)

Bug Fixed:

  • - Read more tag (page-breaker) wrong position
  • - Wrong number of posts in Recent Blog Posts widget

Version 2.2.3 (July 14, 2017)

Features:

  • - Added canonical Url tag
  • - Added rich snippets on the post page
  • - Created simple REST API

Fixes:

  • - Fixed issue with long meta and OG description

Version 2.2.2 (June 21, 2016)

Features:

  • - Added configuration for blog link in catalog navigation menu

Version 2.2.1 (June 01, 2016)

Features:

  • - Added Open Graph (OG) meta tags on the post page
  • - Added AddThis configuration
  • - Improved import from AW on multi-store

Fixes:

  • - Fixed issue with saving a post in the Magento 2 admin panel on German (EU) locale
  • - Added months translation in archive sidebar
  • - Fixed loading of the last page on posts list when lazyload is enabled.

Version 2.2.0 (May 23, 2016)

Features:

  • - Added author information. Author name can be set and displayed, also author page with posts list is added)
  • - Added google comments. Now except Facebook and Disqus now you can use google+ comments too
  • - Added posts lazy load. Instead of standard pagination, you can try automatic posts load on page scroll

Fixes:

  • - Fixed issue with an error on Add New Post or Category in single store mode

Version 2.1.0 (May 10, 2016)

Features:

  • - Added recent posts widget. Now you can insert reccent blog posts easy to any cms page or block
  • - Allowed to display related posts on a product page
  • - Improved multi store (multi website) support
  • - Added import posts and categories form AheadWorks blog exntesion

Fixes:

  • - Fixed issue with varnish on post and category page
  • - Fixed issue with comments and html minify

Version 2.0.2 (March 23, 2016)

Features:

  • - Update composer.json file

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