Blog Extension for Magento 2
Drive organic traffic and boost sales using easy to use Magento 2 blog extension.
- Create visually appealing posts and increase recognition with authorship tools.
- Enhance user interaction with DISQUS comment service integration, turning your blog into a hub for discussion and feedback.
- Stay ahead in search rankings by utilizing comprehensive, modern SEO settings tailored for a Magento blog extension.
- Seamless Migration and Integration Transition effortlessly from a Wordpress blog to Magento 2, preserving your valuable content and audience.
- Hyvä-compatible
- Integration with Elasticsearch, Elasticsuite, Buildify, DISQUS comment service
Blog for Magento 1 is also available.
Current extension version: 2.21.4
Compatibility:
Open Source 2.4.6 - 2.4.7;
Adobe Commerce 2.4.6 - 2.4.7
Adobe Commerce
Compatible
Addon
GraphQL Available
LangShop Compatible
License:
Starting At
Special Price
$329.00
$329.00
Challenge
Retailers often struggle with traditional blogging platforms due to resource intensity and insufficient SEO optimization, impacting visibility and sales. A Magento 2 blog extension directly addresses these challenges, streamlining content management and enhancing SEO, thereby improving online engagement and customer acquisition.
Embracing the Solution with Advanced SEO
Drive traffic to your store with the advanced SEO configurations offered by Magento 2 Blog Solution. Attract customers by seamlessly integrating with social networks and boost sales through cross-integration with your product catalog. With this Magento 2 extension, creating visually appealing blog posts on your website is easy, improving retention rates. Increase upsell opportunities by providing direct links to your products on related post pages.
Attract More Target Audience to Your Store
Being an effective marketing tool, a Blog helps to run successful marketing campaigns and drive more potential customers to your website. Manage your Blog easily and configure it to your needs: build categories, promote authors, classify topics, add useful content, and much more. Posts, shared via social media, look nice and informative thanks to Open Graph and Twitter Cards support, thus engaging visitors and increasing brand recognition. Drive more traffic through our advanced SEO blog extension.
Improve mobile performance with PWA
Effortless Blog Management
Enhance Post Credibility
Streamlined Post Scheduling
Communicate with customers
Relate products to posts
Have your blog SEO-friendly
Utilize the Built-in Comments
Notify your customers
Improve mobile performance with PWA
Improve mobile performance with PWA
Since the audience of mobile users is growing rapidly, make sure your Blog content is mobile-friendly. Cut costs by implementing a ready-to-use PWA solution. Provide responsive design and stable performance on any mobile device to grow customer base and increase retention.
Effortless Blog Management
Effortless Blog Management
Edit categories, authors, and posts in separate grids with a bulk editing option. Make use of the category tree to add new root or sub-categories, as well as to drag and drop categories to change the hierarchy.
Enhance Post Credibility
Enhance Post Credibility
Add author’s photo, short bio, and links to social media to posts to increase the credibility of the authors and prove their expertise in the field.
The Authors display option can be disabled.
Streamlined Post Scheduling
Streamlined Post Scheduling
The scheduling feature helps writers manage their time more efficiently and, as a result, have the information relevant to the time.
Communicate with customers
Communicate with customers
Let people share and comment on blog posts easily to boost customer engagement. Sharing is available via the icons of the social networks and commenting via the integrated Disqus module below the post.
Relate products to posts
Relate products to posts
Assign related products to a blog post to follow sales strategies and promotion campaigns. Once done, the pages of the related products will show tabs to the post.
Have your blog SEO-friendly
Have your blog SEO-friendly
Employ all essential SEO configuration options to have your posts, blog category pages, and authors visible: metadata, keywords, redirect, page and title tag affixes, page separators, canonical URLs, and more.
Utilize the Built-in Comments
Utilize the Built-in Comments
Once your post is ready and published, customers can leave comments on it.
Notify your customers
Notify your customers
The 'Mail Log' page is the place where the entire email sending history is stored. You have the option to send emails immediately, cancel them, and perform these actions for both individual and bulk emails.
Integrations
Integration with Elasticsearch,
Integration with Elasticsuite,Â
Integration with Page Builder for Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce,
DISQUS comment service,
More Features
Import/export the blog data
Support importing/exporting Posts, Categories, Authors via CSV.
Featured Posts
This option allows to pin Featured Posts to the top of the blog/category page.
Insert Magento widgets
Possibility to add Magento widgets to enhance blog content
Featured images
Add featured images as thumbnails for Blog Posts, Recent Posts, and Related Posts.
Easy content management
Create blog page content with WYSIWYG, Page Builder, or Buildify - all conveniently accessible from the blog post settings.
Content navigation
Navigate with the help of the category tree which is visible on the backend and the front-end when browsing the blog.
Recent posts widget
Draw customers attention to articles with an eye-catching widget. The images can be disabled.
Related posts on post pages
Engage customers, even more, displaying related articles and new posts on blog pages.
Customizable category pages
Create visually appealing content by adding description and graphics to category pages.
Viewing permissions
Set permissions for specific customer groups to limit access to particular blog posts.
Customizable blog layout
Organize content blocks according to your store design and business needs.
Posts preview
Verify whether the content looks as intended with the help of the Preview option.
Mass actions for posts
Save time and manage posts in bulk, assigning them to authors, changing status or deleting.
JSON-LD support
 Improve SEO rankings due to JSON-LD markup support.
Metadata
Boost your site traffic by setting meta title, description, and keywords for all blog pages.
Tag affixes
Contribute to better SEO by adding Blog, Category, Post, Author page affixes, title tag affixes per store view.
RSS feed
Build a loyal readers community and allow users to stay up-to-date with RSS feed.
Promote articles on the Thank You page
Write Your Own Review
Back-end demos
Front-end demos
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2.21.4Released 22.11.2024
* Fixed issue with GraphQL package installation -
2.21.3Released 29.07.2024
* Fixed issues with reindex
* Fixed some security issues -
2.21.2Released 03.07.2024
*Fixed loader visibility under post images when the image is transparent.
*Corrected timezone-related display issues for comments.
*Resolved error when creating a new category on the post page.
*Fixed issue where a newly created category on the post page cannot be added without page reloading.
*Addressed issue preventing post saving after opening the category creation page.
*Fixed inability to save a post after creating a new category.
*Corrected index invalidation issues.
*Fixed missing/ non-functional ACL rule for Tags.
*Ensured related products are shown on the post page.
*Standardized the image uploader used across the platform. -
2.21.1Released 16.05.2024
* Fixed issue with title displaying on navigation menu on Admin
* Fixed issue with saving blog content using WYSIWYG editor
* Fixed issue with creating author and category
* Composer update -
2.21.0Released 14.02.2024
+ Tag management, including mass actions and SEO settings for each tag
* Fixed error during installation
* Fixed issue with deleting last tag from post
* Fixed issue with displaying featured post on the blog page
* Fixed issue with page title separator
* Fixed issue with URL spaces when tags are saved -
2.20.0Released 01.02.2024
+ Added Featured post filter for Posts Grid
+ Moved Import and Export configurations to native Magento Import and Export pages
* Fixed issue with notifications when entering an invalid value in the "Remove the web copies of the emails older than X days" field
* Fixed issue with blog indexer on a multithread processor
* Removed constraints from 'aw_blog_product_post' table
* Fixed error during compilation
* Fixed issue with loading after creating a Featured Post -
2.19.0Released 11.12.2023
+ Inline input validation for the URL key field
+ Image uploader behavior unification
+ Option to choose a content editor
+ An option to create a category and Author right from the blog post
* Fixed issue with the export of CSV-file filtered by author -
2.18.0Released 09.11.2023
+ OpenSearch support
+ "Recent posts" behaviour improvement
+ Added several authors to one post -
2.17.2Released 10.10.2023
* Fixed issue with WYSIWYG validator -
2.17.1Released 20.09.2023
* Fixed issue with displaying the Newest/Oldest sorting on the preview page -
2.17.0Released 04.09.2023
+ Elasticsuite support
+ GraphQL update: getting post page and category page
* Fixed issues with GraphQL
* Fixed issue with validation in the "Quantity Of Related Posts" field
* Fixed issue with displaying different quantity of comments on the Post page
* Fixed issues with validation -
2.16.0Released 11.08.2023
+ Other comment tool
+ Built-in Comments Settings
+ Built-in Comments grid
+ Adding a Comment from the Frontend
+ Reply to a Comment on the frontend
+ Adding a Comment from the backend
+ Email notifications
+ Reply to a Comment from the backend
+ Added 'Cancel' button
+ Unsubscribe link in emails
+ Mail Log
+ Email notification subscription management
+ 'Remove the web copies of the emails older than X days' option
* Fixed issue with the Exception triggering when calling "bin/magento config:show"
* Fixed issue in the webapi.xml path
* Fixed issue with exporting and displaying the number of posts
* Fixed issue with loading images
* Fixed issue with deprecated Curl:setConfig for Magento 2.4.6 -
2.15.2Released 17.03.2023
* Fixed issue for Magento Marketplace -
2.15.1Released 17.03.2023
* Fixed issue with the post creation for Magento 2.4.6
* Fixed issue with the category creation for Magento 2.4.6 -
2.15.0Released 29.11.2022
+ GraphQL update
+ Display Posts on the frontend in a grid view
+ Lazy Load functionality support
* Fixed issue with compilation for Magento 2.4.4
* Fixed issue with the image path when using custom Admin URL
* Fixed issue with validators on the backend -
2.14.0Released 12.09.2022
+ Filter and sort posts per store view at admin
+ Default Featured Image (Placeholder) for the blog posts
+ Featured Image link to a specific website on the post page
+ Web API update
+ GraphQL update
* Fixed issue with two relations in the table "aw_blog_product_post" -
2.13.4Released 17.08.2022
* Fixed issue with installing the Blog module for Magento EE 2.4.5 -
2.13.3Released 01.08.2022
+ Web API update
+ GraphQL update
* Post can't be published when End Date is empty
* Error on compilation when MSI module is deleted
* Blog comment count not displayed in post list page and search page
* Migrated posts without filled in "meta description" field are not shown at Storefront -
2.13.2Released 26.05.2022
+ Option to set the end date for the posts
* Fixed issue during the module installation
* Fixed issue with the post search
* Fixed issue with Magento 2.4.4 compatibility
* Fixed issue with dragging the post image
* Fixed issue with symbols in the post content -
2.13.1Released 07.04.2022
+Declarative schema upgrade -
2.13.0Released 17.02.2022
+Export the blog data
+Add Author block to posts
*Paging URLs are not displayed correctly
*Website requested wasn't found
*Fixed issue with posts gird view on an author page
*Fixed issue with default grid views in Posts grid
*Fixed issue with social icons on a blog page -
2.12.0Released 22.12.2021
+ CMS Blocks In Categories support
+ AW Blog post/product association index refactoring
+ Allow managing canonicals on blog pages
+ "Related Products" toggle
* Slash post suffix does not appear in URL Rewrites
* Fixed issue with an unfriendly error appearing on the Blog page after switching store views
* Fixed issue with magento_csp module affecting social icons display
* Fixed issue in console when loading featured image
* Cannot be added to sitemap together with AW FAQ extension
* Add some strings for translation -
2.10.1Released 05.10.2021
+Speeded up Blog index: websites processing
+Speeded up Blog index: rules processing
*Fixed issue with "status" label absence on creating/editing post page
*Fixed issue with missing titles on the Content tab
*Fixed issue with displaying Post Preview without content after clicking the "Preview" button
*Fixed issue with displaying Popup with error on creating/editing post page after clicking "Preview" button -
2.10.0Released 08.09.2021
+Added Blog post duplication functionality
+Possibility to create Blog posts with the same URL-key
+Responsive images support
+Refactor mass post saving
*Fixed issue with installation error occurs if database tables prefix is set
*Fixed issue with the blog search indexer, that doesn't take into account indexer mode -
2.9.2Released 13.08.2021
*Serialize error with enabled FPC were fixed
*Fixed issue with a background image on the category description
*Open Graph meta description looks like a mess in posts
*Fixed issue with the invalid link to the sitemap
*Fixed issue with not displayed image on the author's and category page
*The Related Products block displays disabled products -
2.9.1Released 26.07.2021
*Fixed issue for Magento marketplace -
2.9.0Released 23.07.2021
+ Search posts via Elasticsearch
+ Web API update -
2.8.1Released 11.06.2021
* Fixed issues for Magento Marketplace
* Fixed issues with blog routing logic
* Json error occurs on category tree when apostrophe is used in category name
* Saving a Blog post does not change the "modified date" column
* Editing/creating new categories in the admin panel on the stage starts endless loading
* Content isn't displayed as a required option on Post page in admin -
2.8.0Released 23.02.2021
+ PWA Studio support
+ GraphQL update
* Fixed issues with Page Builder reproduced on Magento EE
* It's impossible to preview a post if there is a lot of content in Page Builder
* HTML code is not converted for category description
* Fixed issue with Wordpress import
* Fixed issues on the Edit Category and Authors pages -
2.7.4Released 23.10.2020
* WebAPI update
* Unit test updates for Magento 2.4 -
2.7.3Released 30.04.2020
* Fixed issue when underscores are added to meta title
* Obsolete 'Page Title Separator' option removed from configuration -
2.7.2Released 24.04.2020
* Fixed issue when related Products are shown incorrectly in Slider Block Layout
* Non-existent URL didn't return 404 page -
2.7.1Released 04.03.2020
* Error appears while trying to delete an author
* Cache is flushed for all product on post save -
2.7.0Released 14.02.2020
+ Option to preview post in admin
+ Category image and description
+ Multiple SEO-related improvements and enhancements:
- Multiple Meta tag improvements
- URL-related improvements (suffixes, redirects, default page title separator)
- Canonical meta tag enhancements
- JSON-LD markup for blog posts
- Option to disable SEO-related options (for managing with third-party extensions)
* Excessive trailing slash in the home page URL
* Blog tab is not shown on Product page if layout is set to full width
* Endless progress bar on attempt to save a new post with an existing URL
* Text element in Page Builder behaves incorrectly in blog post edit page -
2.6.4Released 28.10.2019
* Category tree is not loaded if some root category was deleted
* Fixed issue with breadcrumbs
* Fixed issue when recent posts images are broken in Internet Explorer 11+ -
2.6.3Released 22.10.2019
* Fixed issue with opening 'Blog Posts' page in admin
* Fixed issue with Pagebuilder (Magento 2.3.2)
* Fixed issue when Author info can't be saved
* 'Assign to Author' action doesn't work in "Posts" grid -
2.6.2Released 10.09.2019
* Error occurs during reindexing in some cases
* Minor UI improvements
* Fixed issue when 'How to set it up' link isn't available in the admin panel -
2.6.1Released 28.08.2019
* Stability and speed improvements -
2.6.0Released 29.05.2019
+ Category hierarchy (Subcategories)
+ Post Author pages
+ Mass action: Assign posts to an author
+ Twitter account settings moved to Author page settings
+ LinkedIn and Facebook links for author
+ Previous/Next links on the article pages
+ Posts counter in blog tab on product pages
+ Meta Titles
+ Option to hide Blog from the main navigation menu
* Minor fixes and design adjustments -
2.5.0Released 15.04.2019
+ Related Posts
+ Thumbnails for Recent Posts and Blog Posts
+ GraphQL
+ PageBuilder support
+ RSS
+ Speed improvements
* Data migration tool does not consider the option "Access to blog articles segmented by customer groups"
* Image upload error -
2.4.7Released 20.12.2018
*Fix for Magento Marketplace -
2.4.6Released 17.12.2018
*Fixed vulnerability which allows a remote code execution via unserialize().
*Magento 2.3 compatibility
*Fixed issue with image uploading
*Several websites affect the display of related products in a post -
2.4.5Released 11.12.2018
+Category filter option at post grid filter panel
*Fixed issue when admin is unable to create a post with non-default Twitter Site Account or Twitter Post Author Account -
2.4.4Released 12.10.2018
*Fixed issue when Blog categories do not appear in a sidebaridebar -
2.4.3Released 09.2018
+Uninstall script
*Fix for Magento Marketplace
*Related Products issue in EE installation (Magento 2.2.5) -
2.4.2Released 07.09.2018
*Fixed issue with configurable products creation
*Magento 2.2.5 compatibility -
2.4.1Released 10.04.2018
*Speed improvements -
2.4.0Released 09.04.2018
+Post image implementation
+Twitter Cards and Open Graph support
+Categories added to the sidebar
+Category is included into the URL structure
+Canonical URL management and tag implementation
+Access to blog articles segmented by customer groups
+Integration with BlueFoot for Magento Commerce
+New lines added to CSV
*UI improvements
*Canonical URL option is displayed by default
*Category sidebar cannot be disabled
*Post data is lost in case some errors appear while saving the post
*‘Related Products’ block doesn't work with several ‘category’ conditions
*‘Related Products’ block, which contains configurable products only, isn't shown on a post page
*Slow performance issue
*Fixed issue when formatting of imported posts is broken
*Impossible to use extension attributes
*Varnish compatibility improvement
*Fixed issue when a post cannot be saved without selected categories
*Data migration tool compatibility with Magento 2.2.2 -
2.3.2Released 18.10.2017
* Magento 2.2.0: compilation issue
* Unit tests with new PHPUnit issue
* Magento 2.2rc: Only posts with empty date are saved -
2.3.1Released 19.07.2017
* Wordpress posts import publish date issue
* Direct usage of $_FILES Superglobal has been addressed -
2.3.0Released 27.06.2017
+ 'Update' post button
* Blog migration tool improvements
* Request to SOAP wdsl issue
* Related products option issue ('Invalid From Key') -
2.2.0* SEO-Friendly post URLs improvement
* Import blog posts from WordPress
* Add mass-actions to grid -
2.1.0+ Recent blog posts widget
* Scheduled post doesn't appear at Storefront when FPC is enabled
* Empty Blog meta description
* Meta description is shared to Facebook
* Faq urls are not generated in sitemap.xml if Blog is installed
* Sidebar with "Recent Posts" isn't shown at post page
* Bookmarks don't work at Posts page
* Post statuses colors should be different -
2.0.1Released 20.02.2017
* Can't create blog post at Magento 2.1.3 CE
* Blog route isn't taken into account when sitemap.xml file is generated
* SEO issue on post page
* Module settings page is absent at Role Resouces page -
2.0.0Released 14.11.2016
+ Related product block can be displayed on blog post pages
+ List of blog posts where a product was mentioned can be displayed on product page
+ Migration Tool (M1 > M2 Blog extension by aheadWorks data migration)
+ Unit tests
* Minor bugfixes and stability improvements -
1.0.2Released 12.10.2016
* Updated composer.json to reflect magento 2.1 dependencies -
1.0.0Initial release 27.06.2016
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Released 24.11.2021+ Import blog data
+ Pin featured posts
+ Insert Magento widgets into Blog pages
+ Disable images in the Recent Posts block
+ Disable Author visibility on the frontend
+ Web API update
+ GraphQL update
* Design can be broken when a category is dragged
* List of posts is not loading with limited user role
* Unable to import WordPress authors
* Incorrect buttons behavior if clicking the Preview button
* Category title is duplicated in the breadcrumb
* Fixed issue with the Content and Short content section on the Edit/Create Post page [Magento CE v2.3.7]
* Tags disappear from the Edit Post page after saving changes
Product Questions
Does the Extension has an option to set the Categories as a selection into the left sidebar?
Question by: Guest on Aug 26, 2016, 12:23 PM
There is an option of inserting a CMS static block into a sidebar, so not only it is possible to display links to the featured articles, but also images, text and anything else CMS block can handle.
Answer by: aheadWorks on Aug 26, 2016, 12:42 PM
How can I remove Blog from top menu?
Question by: Guest on Nov 28, 2018, 2:56 PM
In Blog starting from 2.6.0 it is possible to remove it by disabling the Add Blog to Navigation Menu option.
As for earlier versions, it can be done by commenting the following event:
```
<event name="page_block_html_topmenu_gethtml_before">
<observer name="aw_blog_add_topmenu_items" instance="Aheadworks\Blog\Observer\AddBlogToTopmenuItemsObserver" />
</event>
```
in the following file:
app/code/Aheadworks/Blog/etc/frontend/events.xml
Note, to avoid any troubles it is recommended to make all the changes in dev environment.
As for earlier versions, it can be done by commenting the following event:
```
<event name="page_block_html_topmenu_gethtml_before">
<observer name="aw_blog_add_topmenu_items" instance="Aheadworks\Blog\Observer\AddBlogToTopmenuItemsObserver" />
</event>
```
in the following file:
app/code/Aheadworks/Blog/etc/frontend/events.xml
Note, to avoid any troubles it is recommended to make all the changes in dev environment.
Answer by: Tatiana Poleshchuk on Nov 28, 2018, 2:58 PM
Will the comments in Blog be reviewed before displaying in the front end?
Question by: Guest on Aug 12, 2016, 2:48 PM
By default, all comments obtain Pending status and have to be approved by the admin first.
Answer by: aheadWorks on Aug 12, 2016, 2:58 PM
Can pages be enabled/disabled by website or store view for multi-store merchants? I.e., can I show the Spanish version of the blog post on the Spanish store view and show the English version of the blog post on my English store view?
Question by: Ben on May 10, 2022, 10:20 PM
Yes, you can do it. You just need to create multiple posts on different store views.
Answer by: Julia Gorobets (Admin) on May 27, 2022, 1:33 PM
Can video be added to a blog post?
Question by: Tom Murray on Feb 8, 2021, 11:32 PM
Yes, you can decide if you want to let your customers attach images and videos to comments.
Answer by: Julia Gorobets (Admin) on Apr 21, 2022, 8:00 AM
