Hi, Magefan customers. Welcome to the digest of August 2025 news and updates!

August was generous with the new features and improvements to our Magento 2 extensions and Shopify Apps. We've been actively working on enhancing our solutions, and are ready to share the results with you.

Let's get right to them!


Magento Extensions

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Google Tag Manager
v2.7.1

Improvements:

  • Added "customer_id" and "item_variant" params to the data layer.
  • Improved CSP whitelist.
  • Added "customer_firstname", "customer_lastname", "customer_email", "customer_dob", "customer_gender", "customer_telephone", "customer_postcode", "customer_city", "customer_region", and "customer_country_id" params to the data layer with the hashed customer data (GTM Plus & Extra).
  • Improved getting ecomm_pagetype param value.
  • Added the "view_item" event on configurable product option select (GTM Extra).
  • Improved server-side tracking (GTM Extra).

Compatibilities:

Other:

  • Moved "customer_identifier" and "customerGroup" data layer params from Basic to Plus extension edition.

Fixes:

  • Fixed an error during customer registration Magefan\\GoogleTagManagerPlus\\Model\\GetCustomerData::executeCustomer(): Argument #1 ($customer) must be of type Magento\\Customer\\Model\\Customer, Magento\\Customer\\Model\\Data\\Customer given (GTM Plus & Extra).

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Translation
v2.4.3

Features:

  • Added a new "Additional Instructions" field for ChatGPT Translation API (Extra).
  • Added the ability to auto-translate product and category URL keys (Extra).

Improvements:

  • Improved compatibility with the WYSIWYG editor (Plus & Extra).
  • Minor code improvements (Plus).

Fixes:

  • Resolved an issue that happens during setup:upgrade on the first extension installation.
  • Fixed an issue with multi-language support for CMS Pages and CMS Blocks (Plus & Extra).
  • Resolved PHP 7.4 compatibility issues.

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Cookie Consent
v2.1.0

Features:

  • Added the automatic cookie collector.
  • Added newly added cookies notification.
  • Added the "Magefan Cookie Consent Extension - Cookie List" widget.

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Facebook Pixel
v2.7.4

Improvements:

  • Improved Meta Pixel Advanced Matching (Plus and Extra).
  • Conversion API improvements (Extra).
  • Added event_source_url and referrer_url to all events.

Compatibilities:

Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue with getting the wrong child product ID in the shopping cart and purchase events.

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SEO
v2.6.2

General:

  • Updated the Rich Snippets package to v2.0.21 (SEO Plus & Extra).
  • Updated the XML Sitemap package to v2.1.1 (SEO Plus & Extra).
  • Updated the Hreflang Tags package to v2.4.2 (SEO Extra).

Features:

  • "Include Filter Options" in meta title, page title, and meta description.

Optimizations:

  • Crosslink performance optimization when using category filtering (SEO Extra).

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WebP Images
v2.5.3

Improvements:

  • Now, the gif2webp library is used to convert GIF to WebP.
  • Minor code improvements.

Compatibilities:

  • Added compatibility between WebP Images Section and Remote Storage (Extra).

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Hreflang Tags
v2.4.2

General:

  • We no longer use the xmlns:xhtml="xhtml" attribute in the tag.

Compatibilities:

  • Compatibility with the Magefan Blog v2.13.0.
  • Compatibility with the Mageplaza Shop By Brand extension.

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Rich Snippets
v2.0.21

General:

  • Optimized the price retrieval for the configurable product child items.
  • Now all product images are shown in the Product Snippet.

Features:

  • New properties in the Product Snippet — Offer Item Condition and Certification.

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Google Shopping Feed
v2.1.11

Features:

  • Added a preview that defines why products are missing from the feed (e.g., disabled, out of stock, etc.). It shows the product XML if there are no issues.

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Admin Email Notifications
v2.3.2

General:

  • Added the ability to manage customer registration and new reviews notification settings on a store view level.

Improvements:

  • Improved the multi-website and MSI functionality.

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Auto Related Products
v2.4.5

General:

  • Extended support of grouped, configurable, and bundle products.
  • Child items are now not displayed in the related products block on the product page.
  • Now, child items are used for the "Who Bought This Also Bought" option.

Shopify Apps

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Blog App
 

Features:

  • Added the ability to update posts via CSV by post IDs (Basic Plan).
  • Added a new comment status option (Basic Plan).
  • Added the "Add to Cart" button to the related products widget in the post content (Pro Plan).
  • Added the Post Video option that can be used 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.
  • Removed the Shopify "saveBar" and reverted the old Save and Save&Continue buttons.
  • Grouped the blog templates by meaning.
  • Synchronised author options with Magento.
  • Now, the sidebar is disabled by default when 1-page column layout is selected.

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Login as Customer
 

General:

  • Removed Standard plan. Note: all users with the Standard plan are moved to Pro (keeping the Standard subscription charge).
  • Moved the "Update access scope (if needed)" message from the dashboard to the config page.

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