# [Magento 2 Blog Extension](https://magefan.com/magento2-blog-extension) by Magefan

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Magento 2 Blog  is an extension that allows you to manage your store and blog from one place without having to rely on some third-party platforms. This blog extension for Magento 2 is a multifunctional marketing tool that will not only help you drive more traffic but boost SEO and improve your Google rating. Our [Magento 2 Blog Module](https://magefan.com/magento2-blog-extension) is one of the best Magento 2 extensions with more than 230 000 downloads.

## Requirements
  * Magento Community 2.2.0-2.4.0 (CE, EE, ECE, B2B)
  * [Magefan Community Extension](https://github.com/magefan/module-community) >= v2.0.12. Please install this extension first if you use installation via FTP.
  * **Note** that extension is free only for the Magento Community (Open Source) Edition. For Magento EE, ECE, B2B you need to purchase the license for [Blog Base or go with Blog Plus, Blog Extra](https://magefan.com/magento2-blog-extension/pricing).
  * **ATTENTION!** Latest available version for Magento 2.1.x is Blog v2.9.0.1
  



## Editions & Pricing
  
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## Main Features
  * **NEW!** Blog GraphQL
  * Unlimited blog posts, multi-level categories, and tags
  * Multilanguage and Multiple Websites Support
  * Facebook, Disqus, Google+, and Magefan Magento Comments
  * Related products and posts
  * Post media gallery & video
  * Next & Previous Post
  * Posts search
  * Posts Lazy Load
  * Author information and posts by author
  * Recent Posts, Featured Posts, Archive, Categories, Search From, Tags Cloud sidebar widgets
  * Import Posts and Categories form WordPress and AW Blog extension for M1
  * Posts and Categories duplication
  * Blog Rss Feed
  * REST API  
  * 100% Open Source
  * Compatible with [Porto Theme](https://themeforest.net/item/porto-ultimate-responsive-magento-theme/9725864?ref=magefan) for Magento 2
  * Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project support. To enable AMP view on blog pages [Magento Amp Extension](http://magefan.com/accelerated-mobile-pages/) by Plumrocket is required.
  * Blog Sitemap XML
  * SEO-friendly URLs
  * Structured Data
  * Open Graph (OG) meta tags
  * Canonical URL  
  * [Much More](https://magefan.com/magento2-blog-extension/pricing)
  
## Benefits
**More traffic to your website**

Targeting the top-ranked keywords and writing the compelling content you will ensure more people will find your Magento 2 blog and consequently more people will come to your website.

**Improved your Magento 2 website SEO**

According to the previous point, the more traffic your Magento 2 blog brings, the more relevant your website appears to Google. So it will put your Magento 2 store pages higher and show them more often correspondingly.

**Improved customer engagement**

The system of Magento 2 blog posts, categories, tags, internal links and sidebar navigation will create a great customer experience and will encourage them to come back and spend more time on your Magento 2 website since it is easy to navigate and pleasant to spend time on.

**Magento 2 store product promotion**

Magento 2 Blog extension allows you to add related products to your blog posts as well as show the related blog posts in the product descriptions. You can promote your Magento 2 store products in your blog and vice versa. This connection will allow people coming to your website surf through it continuously.

**Social media promotion**

The best way to make your blog recognized and get even more traffic is to promote it on social media. Magento 2 Blog module allows you to automatically publish your blog posts to your Facebook page so that you don’t need to do it manually and schedule the publication.

**Worldwide recognition**

Managing a multi-language store would be great since you could reach a wider audience and appeal to more customers. Fortunately, Magento 2 Blog extension supports multiple languages and websites. Thus, you can create stunning content for people from different countries and benefit from improved traffic and worldwide recognition.

## Features
* **NEW! Blog GraphQL and Rest API Endpoints**

In the mobile era all major websites start to create apps in order to make their customers’ shopping experience better. Magento 2 Blog extension has the GraphQL and Rest API endpoints that allow you to request or add data to your external software. Thus, if you decide to have your Magento 2 store and blog in an app you can easily do this.

* **Unlimited blog posts, multi-level categories, and tags**

Creating interesting and engaging blog posts, adding them into multiple blog categories, and marking them with tags you create a Magento 2 blog people would want to visit and read because of the simplicity of use and navigation.

* **Multilanguage and Multiple Websites Support**

Managing a blog for Magento 2 store in one language is good for traffic and SEO, but managing a blog in multiple languages is even better. Magento 2 Blog extension supports multiple languages so that you can reach the worldwide audience providing them with the content in their local language. This blog module for Magento 2 also supports multiple websites so you can create content for different Magento 2 websites and conveniently manage them from one place.

* **Facebook, Disqus and Magefan Magento Comments**

The first step to establishing a good relationship with your customers and get an honest feedback about you blog are comments. Magento 2 Blog extension supports 3 types of comments: Magefan, Facebook and Disqus. You can study the tendencies and things your blog readers like the most and use it for further development of your Magento 2 Blog.

* **Related products and posts**

Related products and posts are one of the best ways to make people stay on your website longer. Showing really relevant products and blog posts you encourage readers to have a look at your Magento 2 store products and read some other interesting things on your blog. 

* **Post media gallery & video**

Adding pictures and videos to your blog posts you make them more diverse and interesting since no one likes reading one-piece texts. Magento 2 blog extension offers you to add plenty of pictures to the blog media gallery to provide the blog readers with more relevant images. 

* **Next & Previous Post**

Internal linking is considered as important as the external one. One of the ways to add them is next and previous post links that encourage your Magento 2 blog readers to surf through your blog continuously and stay longer engaged with your content.

* **Posts search**

Allow your blog readers to find an article they are interested in faster with the Magento 2 blog search form.

* **Posts Lazy Load**

Enable lazy loading on your Magento 2 blog in order for blog posts on your blog index page to load just when scrolling down. That way you’ll ensure the website loading speed is fast and your blog readers don’t have to wait to get to the content of their interest.

* **Author information and posts by the author**

Create, edit and delete authors on your Magento 2 blog and sort your blog posts by the author to let people know where is the information coming from and who is providing it. 

* **Recent Posts, Featured Posts, Archive, Categories, Search From, Tags Cloud sidebar widgets**

Magento 2 Blog extension allows you to improve your blog visitors’ experience with the help of the blog sidebar. There are gathered all relevant things people can look for from Category Tree and Popular Posts to Achieve and RSS Feed. Magento 2 Sidebar makes your blog navigation easier and more effective. 

* **Import Posts and Categories form WordPress and AW Blog extension for M1**

A lot of people are migrating to Magento 2 considering its growing popularity. So if you want to migrate your Wordpress or Aheadworks blog to Magento 2 you can easily do this since our Magento 2 Blog extension provides different kinds of blog imports.

* **Posts and Categories duplication**

Do you want to create the same category or blog posts with a slight content change or for translation? Magento 2 Blog extension has the feature of posts and categories duplication. So all you’ll need to do is to duplicate the blog post or blog category and then make changes to the title, description, or to the whole content if you like.

* **100% Open Code**

Magento 2 is very flexible and customizable and so is our Magento 2 Blog extension. It is 100% Open Code so except for the big variety of features it is offering you can still make changes and add some improvements to make a blog for your Magento 2 store stand out.

* **Compatible with [Porto Theme](https://themeforest.net/item/porto-ultimate-responsive-magento-theme/9725864?ref=magefan) for Magento 2**

In case you were looking for a great theme for your Magento 2 store and wanted to start managing a blog you can have it all at once since our Magento 2 Blog extension is fully compatible with the Porto Theme for Magento 2.

* **Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project support**

Fast performing website is very important since it influences traffic, SEO and a lot of other things. Magento 2 blog module supports accelerated mobile pages. So, your blog will be loading fast for users who enter it from a mobile. To enable AMP view on blog pages [Magento Amp Extension](http://magefan.com/accelerated-mobile-pages/) by Plumrocket is required.

* **Blog Sitemap XML**

Google is analyzing a lot of things on your Magento 2 website in order to choose which place to put it on. Configuring Magento 2 blog sitemap you choose what pages to allow Google to access and analyze to improve your blog positions.

* **SEO-friendly URLs**

Nowadays, you need to pay huge attention to SEO in order to be found. Magento 2 Blog extension uses only the best SEO practices and allows you to create the SEO- friendly URLs for your blog so that people can easily find your posts on Google.

* **Open Graph (OG) meta tags**

Social media are the very first place you should start promoting your Magento 2 store and blog on. In case you want to make your posts clickable and more attractive you have to configure the Facebook Open Graph tags for them.

## Demo

Try out our open demo and if you like our extension **please give us some star on Github ★**
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## Add-ons
  * [Blog GraphQL for Magneto 2.2.x by Magefan](https://github.com/magefan/module-blog-graph-ql)
  * [Blog Comments ReCaptcha by Magefan](https://github.com/magefan/module-blog-comments-recaptcha)
  * [Blog Integration with Plumrocker AMP Extension](https://github.com/magefan/module-blog-amp)
  * [ElasticSuite Blog search for Magento 2 by Comwrap](https://github.com/comwrap/Comwrap_ElasticsuiteBlog)


## Online Documentation
https://magefan.com/blog/magento-2-blog-extension-documentation


## Installation Instruction
https://magefan.com/blog/magento2-blog-extension-installation

## Magento 2 Blog Management
* [How to Create Blog Post?](https://magefan.com/blog/new-blog-post-in-magento-2)
* [How to Create Blog Category?](https://magefan.com/blog/new-blog-category-in-magento-2)
* [How to Create Blog Tag?](https://magefan.com/magento2-blog-extension/new-tag)
* [How to Create Blog Author?](https://magefan.com/magento-2-blog-extension/manage-author)
* [How to Configure Magento 2 Blog Sidebar?](https://magefan.com/magento2-blog-extension/sidebar)
* [How to Configure Blog Index Page?](https://magefan.com/magento-2-blog-extension/blog-index-page)
* [How to Configure Blog Comments?](https://magefan.com/magento2-blog-extension/comments-configuration)
* [How to Configure Blog Design?](https://magefan.com/magento2-blog-extension/design-configuration)
* [How to Configure Blog Permalink Setting?](https://magefan.com/blog/manage-magento-2-blog-permalink-settings)
* [How to Configure Magento 2 Blog Autopublication on Facebook?](https://magefan.com/magento2-blog-extension/facebook-auto-publishing)

## Support
If you have any issues, please [contact us](mailto:support@magefan.com)
then if you still need help, open a bug report in GitHub's
[issue tracker](https://github.com/magefan/module-blog/issues).

Please do not use Magento Marketplace Reviews or (especially) the Q&A for support.
There isn't a way for us to reply to reviews and the Q&A moderation is very slow.

## Need More Features?
Please contact us to get a quote
https://magefan.com/contact

## License
The code is licensed under [EULA](https://magefan.com/end-user-license-agreement).

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