Reviews about Shopify Blog App

I tested a number of blogs from shopify and found Megafan to be the best. After the initial installation I needed a few tweaks and Viktoriia and her team were extremely helpful in assisting me. The app itself is easy to use and integrates seamlessly with my website, maintain the look and feel. The blog editor is really powerful and has a lot of options where I can customise font, headings images etc. I can also customise blog categories and the sidebar recent posts and popular posts, there’s a whole lot more features available, so worth checking it out!!!

Mediocre UI but better than Shopify built in blog tools

Finding it very un user friendly, compared to Squarespace/ Wordpress.
Quite often I'm unable to add photos to a draft blog post, for no apparent reason. Sometimes it doesn't save a draft or removes the title/ details within. All very frustrating when you're short on time anyway and trying to create content.
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Magefan response:

Thank you for your honest review of our app. We're really sorry your experience with it has been quite frustrating, and more than happy to fix those issues. Our support team has reached out to get details and we're waiting for your reply.

Best flexibility among blog apps

I like using Magefan and like working with the support team. Together we have worked through some issues transferring from Magento to Shopify - the support does does set them apart from other Shopify blog providers.

This blog app does everything I need it to do simple and to the point 10/10 would recommend

I haven’t used it enough to give it a rating

excelent

They can't fixed my issue no reply

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Magefan's reply:

We have reached out to the customer for more information about the issue. Upon our investigation, we determined that the issue stemmed from the theme styles, preventing the featured blog posts widget from displaying on the store's homepage. We have implemented a fix, and the featured posts are now displaying correctly as expected.

So far I'm really happy with the features of the free plan and the customer service is second to none. Thank you so much, Viktoriia!

Incredibly helpful and responsive support. They actually listen to feedback and will implement improvements you recommend. Product functions as described.

I dock a star due to the lack of customization of post side navigation. Right now, it's just a list of category links similar to Wordpress default.

Overall, great app. I'm certain it'll only grow and get better the further along its development cycle it goes.

Every question I had was addressed promptly, and all issues were resolved quickly and to my full satisfaction. The team goes above and beyond to provide effective solutions and ensure a seamless experience. Many thanks!

On the homepage, the blog module takes more than 5 seconds to load, which is extremely slow. I reached out to customer service for assistance, but they didn't even check if there were any code conflicts in the backend. Instead, they asked a bunch of questions and then said, "Oh, we will improve it," which was no help at all.

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Magefan's reply:

Thank you for your honest feedback about our Blog app. We really appreciate it. In your initial request, you said it loaded 3 seconds so we asked additional questions to understand how the widget is applied and whether it's been customized through the CSS option. Since all changes are added to the app directly from our side, speed optimization isn't something we could improve instantly. We've now made the required changes to make the widget load 2-3- times faster and reached out to notify you about them. Please feel free to reach out if you have any other improvement suggestions.

This is a really useful blog app which has loads of features and benefits you'd expect to be able to build a fully functioning blog area on your website - way better than the Shopify version.

We've gone from not ranking for any of our blogs, to getting organic traffic since we moved from our previous blog app.

The customer service and support is exceptional, any issue we've had or suggestion made has been taken on board to make the app even better.

Sehr gute und funktionelle Blog App.
Sehr zu empfehlen.
Der Support ist sehr gut. Viele Anregungen von mir wurden sofort implementiert.
Weiter so!
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English translation:

Very good and functional blog app.
Highly recommended.
The support is very good. Many of my suggestions were implemented immediately.
Keep it up!

I’m absolutely thrilled with the SEO Optimized Blog app by Magefan! The support is fast and efficient, which has helped me multiple times. I particularly appreciate the integrated translation tool, which makes managing a multilingual blog incredibly easy. The ability to link individual blog posts directly to a product page is another big plus. The app is also extremely user-friendly and easy to navigate. A clear recommendation for anyone looking to optimize their blog and SEO strategy!

This is an intuitive simple and effective blogging tool. I replaced the standard Shopify blog tool with this one and I highly recommend it. Easy to add rich contents such a videos, graphics etc. Just what I needed!

Very good application, with customer support that responds quickly.

Well done and I wish you continued success in your development.

Way better and customizable than the stock shopify blog page. Customer service is FANTASTIC. I asked for special features and they ADDED them for me.. in one day. Love it!!

Still a new app but the sidebar alone is better than all other blog apps and integration is easy. It can also create one way you could improve this amazing app would be to automatically change the uploaded blog featured image into 150x150 for featured list images, 450 x 450 for homepage recent post/ featured post to improve speed. The biggest problem is that all seo or other shopify app only work with the shopify integrated blog, thats why i can’t use yoast or tiny image optimizer. Or maybe you could integrate the magefan into shopify blog, so other plug ins would be compatible? I don’t know and thanks for your time to reading this :)
And the post should sort automatically in the last settings set

Overall, good functionality and easy to use. Support team is prompt and courteous.

Magefan Blog is far superior to the stock shopify blog. The support has been excellent, I submitted some suggested functionality and they responded immediately and added that requested functionality.

We were already paying $7.99/mo for Custom Authors, this functionality comes built into magefan so it was a no-brainer for us to switch. Plus the ability to add categories for navigation is huge.

I do wish that blog posts showed up in searches. It should be included in the basic plan. An additional $20/month for this is too much.

We're thoroughly impressed with this app and its consistent performance. The support team is always ready to tackle any issues, and we wholeheartedly recommend it to others.

Smooth installation, easy to configure, great and responsive customer support. Highly recommended.

Exceptional customer service !! The platform offers a wide range of impressive features, including various fonts, the ability to leave comments, and customizable configurations. Thank you a lot!