Blog MX for Magento 2

Make your blog more convenient to readers by configuring its appearance.

Enable the visible navigation menu so that visitors can easily go right to the content they are interested in.

Make blog page visually more appealing by enabling excerpts of posts.

Manually specify the excerpt for a post or leave it with the default excerpt size.

Choose the desired layout style for your blog. You can modify post layout, post list view mode, posts sorting algorithm, or number of displayed posts per page.

Our Magento blog extension offers an individual frontend page for each of the authors of your blog. This allows readers to follow posts from their favorite author.

Tell readers of your blog more about your authors. Add onto their page a profile photo, short and full biography, links to the social media Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

Blog Mx provides you with two widget types on which to show the recent blog posts in any part of your store.

Use horizontal and vertical widgets to seamlessly incorporate the widgets into the shop's design theme.

Enable filters to acquaint customers with relevant fresh blog content depending on the page they visit: category page, product page, etc.

For example, when a customer visits the running gear page in a widget, it should show blog posts related to running.

Adapt the widget design to a particular page and position on it by specifying how many posts to display and how you want them to be displayed.

Select the widget's template: full content or sidebar display. Set a number of posts to display.

Choose the widget's position by placing in into one of dozens of content containers that Magento offers. It can be at top of the page, main content area, sidebar, footer, etc.

Fine-tune your blog's structure using a tag system of Blog MX.

Indicate group content by marking it with one tag. For example, you can use tags to combine several posts from different categories or to single out a series of posts too small to warrant their own category.

Access any tag on the frontend by its URL key.

Select the visibility of tags for Store Views.

Separate the blog content for each Store View. Assign the Store View visibility for any element of your blog - posts, authors' page, categories, widgets, tags.

Multistore support for blog posts can be helpful, for example, if you have a multilingual store. Display posts from each language in a separate store view.

Is it possible to add URLs of a Magento blog pages to the XML sitemap in order to boost a blog's search engine visibility?

A Magento 2 shop can be crawled by search engines like Google Search more efficiently when they receive a special file where links to all pages on a website are gathered. This file is called a sitemap and it helps search engines to build a relationships between pages, files and other content on a site, which in turn helps its promotion in search engine rankings.

Embedded Magento functionality doesn't allow you to add URLs from this magento plugin blog to the default Magento's sitemap. You can add URLs of your blog pages to the sitemap by using another Mirasvit extension Advanced SEO Suite. It can help to greatly improve your store's search engine ranking, and one of its functions is as an advanced sitemap generation. Such an advanced sitemap will include URLs from the blog plugin magento. For more information, check the page of this extension and its user manual.

Is Blog MX a PWA-ready extension?

Progressive Web Apps (PWA) is an approach to building interactive and rich user experiences on mobile devices. Our Blog Mx is a Responsive Web Application (RWA) extension and it was created with mobile users in mind. It works without any issues on smartphones and tablets, and it is optimized for mobile devices. You can check out the mobile functionality of our module's mobile version on the demo page.

However, our blog plugin for magento is not PWA-ready. This means that your store's blog can not be accessed as a native standalone app on mobile and published on the Google Play Store or Apple App Store, as is possible with PWA. Access to the blog is maintained through any web-browser available on the user's device.

What is the difference between the free and paid versions of Blog-Mx, and what version should my Magento 2 store use?

Initially, the Blog Mx extension was developed as a free-to-use blog extension in magento stores. It still is available as a free version and can be used at no charge. You can learn where to download Blog Mx and how to install it in our article.

Magento 2 is constantly evolving, and to stay fully comprehensive with its requirements while providing modern blogging functionality for a magento shop, the Blog Mx extension was induced to end the support of its free version and proceed with development exclusively as a paid magento extension.

The free version of the blog extension magento still provides all basic features required to build a powerful blog for a store. You can use it if it fits your needs. In case you need the latest modern enhancements for your blog, like the ability to manage authors, manage tags, full multistore support, widgets, related content grouping, and many more, you should opt for the paid version of this magento blog plugin.

Is it possible to change the blog page layout design?

The layout design of the blog page that is provided by Blog Mx module is a simple vertical single column which is suitable for most scenarios. Such a layout is hard-coded in the files of this magento blog module. The Mirasvit policy is to provide a quality clean code without any obfuscation or encryption, so the user has full control of the blog magento extension modification according to his or her needs.

The template styles of Blog Mx can be opened in any suitable editor and modified as needed. However, the current versions of this module do not support modifications of the blog layout style via the Magento backend admin panel.