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Change log for Shopify Blog App

December 2025

Features:

  • - Suggestion pop-up for creating a new post: from scratch or with AI (Basic Plan).
  • - Meta title, description, and keywords fields for the Authors page (Basic Plan).
  • - "Latest posts by author" block on a post view page (Pro Plan).
  • - Templates for the "Related posts" block on a post view page (Pro Plan).
  • - Templates for the "Related products" block on a post view page (Pro Plan).
  • - Carousel template for the "Latest posts from the category" block (Pro Plan).

November 2025

Improvements:

  • - Improved blog comments management on the admin panel side.
  • - Added the ability to skip the featured image generation and convert the featured image to .webp during the AI post generation.

October 2025

Features:

  • - Implemented the AI blog post generation (Basic Plan).
  • - Added a "Collapsible subcategories" option for the sidebar categories widget (Standard Plan).
  • - Added a "Show child categories" option to blog categories (Pro Plan).

Improvements:

  • - Added the store URL to the new pending comments notification email (Pro Plan).
  • - Redesigned the app's pricing page.

September 2025

Features:

  • - Added a "Pending" status to the blog comments (Basic Plan).
  • - Added a "Pending" status to the New Comment Status option (Basic Plan).
  • - Added the admin email notifications about pending blog comments (Pro Plan).

August 2025

Features:

  • - Added ability to update posts with CSV by post IDs (Basic Plan).
  • - Added new comment status option (Basic Plan).
  • - Added the "add to cart" button on the related product widget in post content (Pro Plan).
  • - Post Video option instead of the Featured Post Image (Pro Plan).

Improvements:

  • - Pop up on preview notifying about the unsaved changes (if any).
  • - Moved the "Update access scopes" pop-up to the config page.
  • - Deleted the Shopify "saveBar" and reverted the old save,save&continue buttons.
  • - Sidebar disabled by default when 1-page column layout is selected.
  • - Grouped the blog templates by meaning.
  • - Synchronised author options with Magento.

July 2025

General:

  • - Removed the "Use blog app font size" option from the Design section, since we now have fixed sizes in pixels.

Features:

  • - Added the "Allow HTML Tags In Short Content" option for the post list short content. It is set to "Yes" by default (Basic Plan).
  • - Added the "Posts Number" option to the related posts widget (Standard Plan).
  • - Added the "Template Type" option to the related posts widget (Pro Plan).

June 2025

Features:

  • - Implemented a new blog design. Users can switch to it in the app's Configuration > Design > Version section (Basic Plan).
  • - Added the "Page width" option to the Design section. It is set to 1200 px by default (Basic Plan).
  • - Added the "Post views" block and the 'Add post' button to the app's dashboard (Basic Plan).

May 2025

Features:

  • - Added the "Blog tags" section to the XML sitemap settings (Pro Plan).

Fixes:

  • - Fixed an issue with the missing related product image alt text.

April 2025

Features:

  • - Related Products widget in the post content (Pro Plan).
  • - Search Label option for the Search sidebar widget (Basic Plan).
  • - Custom CSS field on the post creation page (Basic Plan).

Fixes:

  • - Fixed the issue where the featured images with a file size greater than 2MB were deleted on the post save.

March 2025

General:

  • - Improved CSV Export/Import. Now, you can export/import related categories, tags, products, and co-authors via CSV (Basic Plan).

Features:

  • - LinkedIn social sharing button (Basic Plan).
  • - BlueSky social sharing button (Basic Plan).
  • - Related Products sidebar widget (Standard Plan).
  • - Sort Order field for the related posts and products blocks (Standard Plan).
  • - An option to create permanent redirects for old blog posts during the Shopify Import (Basic Plan).

February 2025

Features:

  • - Added the comments import from Default Shopify Blog (Basic Plan).
  • - Added the co-author bio block (Pro Plan).

January 2025

Features:

  • - Added an option allowing to export the entire blog data (Basic Plan).
  • - Added Sidebar Tag Cloud Widget (Basic Plan).
  • - Added a section on config to manage archive page information. The following info can now be managed: page title, page description, meta title, meta keywords, meta description, meta robots (Basic Plan).

December 2024

Features:

  • - Added an option to allow guest comments (Basic Plan).
  • - Added an option to enable Invisible reCAPTCHA v3 (Basic Plan).
  • - Added auto related posts (Pro Plan).

November 2024


Features:

  • - Added sidebar widget which includes Authors List. The widget links to the Authors List Page (Standard Plan).
  • - SEO improvements: added Prev, Next on post lists (Blog Index page, Category, Tag, Author). (Basic Plan).
  • - Added Page N to the page title (Basic Plan).

Fixes:

  • - Fixed an issue when Post Image Alt is missing, the post title is used for Image Alt (Free plan).

July 2024

Features:

  • - Added text direction option to design: RTL and LTL.
  • - Added an option to duplicate blog posts (Standard Plan).
  • - Added ability to set meta robots for posts, categories, tags, and authors (Standard Plan).
  • - Added option to set the custom currency symbol for related product price on the blog post page  (Standard Plan).

June 2024

Features:

  • - Added mandatory SEO options (name, uploaded date, description) in the WYSIWYG media plugin.
  • - Added page_list_image variable on post page for storefront. It can be used in theme (for OG tags) instead of page_image, e.g. when posts have only list images.
  • - Added ability to localize the home page (title, description).

Fixes:

  • - Fixed the issue with recent and featured posts widgets not displaying localized posts.
  • - Moved Zendesk chat to the dashboard and help pages.

May 2024

Features:

  • - Added a new design for the Shopify Blog dashboard.
  • - Added steps on how to configure the app.
  • - Added FAQ section.
  • - Added the user guide block.
  • - Added the contact us block.

April 2024

Features:

  • - Added the co-author feature (Pro Plan).
  • - Added the News sitemap (Pro Plan).
  • - Added the option to set rich snippet/structured data for each blog post (Standard Plan).
  • - Added the breadcrumb snippet to the blog pages (Standard Plan).
  • - Now the 404 page inherits the store design.

March 2024

Features:

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  • - Added ability to change /a/ in the blog path to apps/tools/community. e.g. myshopify.store.com/tools/blog/post-path.
  • - Added ability to change /blog/ in the blog path to any other path. e.g.  myshopify.store.com/a/news/post-path.
  • - Improved UI for related posts and products in the backend.
  • - Design improvements that comply with the best Shopify practices, namely in the configuration section.

February 2024

Features:

  • - Added blog index page description field. 
  • - Improved import from Magento 2 and WordPress. It now works with Shopify dev stores with password protection.
  • - Changed backend config labels for templates and design settings.
  • - Improved UI for related posts and products in the backend.
  • - Enabled the "Include in sidebar" option by default for newly created categories.
  • - Storefront speed improvements.

January 2024

Features:

  • - Grids in the admin panel "remember" the sort by option.
  • - Added the "Export to Magefan Blog" button in the default Shopify blog post (More actions).
  • - Added blog sitemap link in the "XML Sitemap" config section.
  • - Added the ability to reply to blog comments from the admin panel.
  • - Added the search engine preview for metadata.
  • - Changed category input in the admin panel to select box tree and added category search by name.
  • - Now import from WordPress or Magento to Shopify Blog doesn't need the "shop", only the import key.

Fixes:

  • - Mobile optimization for blog management buttons in the admin panel.
    - Added an option to fix the issue when the font size in the blog is too big.
    - Added a fix for blog save messages to comply with the Shopify design requirements.

December 2023

Features:

  • - Added 7 images that will be randomly applied to a blog post if there is no featured image for the post list.
  • - Added sample .csv file for import.
  • - Added integration between Shopify catalog search and the blog search. (Pro Plan)
  • - Added localization. Now you can translate any entity (post, category, author, tag, comment, title, content, short content, metadata etc.) on different stores if they have different localizations (languages). (Pro Plan)
  • - Added bulk actions for blog posts: status change and delete.
  • - Added sample post that is published when installing the app.

November 2023

Features:

  • - Design improvement in the admin panel.
  • - Added support for Turkish, Slovak, Romanian, Dutch, Italian, Finnish, Spanish, Greek, Czech locales.
  • - Added an option to upload WebP Images.
  • - Added an option to select a shop domain to build proper blog URLs (in case you have multiple domains). (Standard Plan)
  • - WISWIG improvements.
  • - Preview Post feature improvements.
  • - Started using the shop timezone instead of the server default timezone.
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