Overview
Back to topBlog Pro is a powerful content marketing tool that helps online merchants establish good relations with customers and drive massive traffic to their online store. With the Blog Pro extension, store owners will be able to post multiple articles a day and easily adjust the blog layout to personal needs.
Customize the layout with a handy constructor by simply dragging and dropping content blocks to the positions you need. Specify a custom layout colour scheme and set the number of posts per page. Use an intuitive WYSIWYG editor for quick content management and add a fully customizable 3D cloud of tags to the blog page. Equip pages with social share buttons to boost your content exposure.
Implement meta information to the posts, categories, and tags to improve your SEO. You can also fine-tune the automatic post publishing schedule, moderate users' comments and provide your readers with the information about the blog authors.
Key Features:
- Create blog posts in a few clicks with an easy editor
- Increase your search rankings with advanced SEO tools
- Add multi-level category tree and 3D tags
- Customize your blog pages layout
- Enable AMP for instant blog pages loading
- Manage comments and let visitors share content
Grow Your Business With Blog
Attract more targeted traffic to your website and improve search engines ranking. Share valuable content to strengthen the business authority and develop customers' trust to you. Improve service by quickly gathering clients’ feedback in comments. The Blog Pro extension for Magento 2 is a great tool to help you build a community around your brand using a content marketing strategy.
Responsive Blog Design
Responsive design makes your posts pleasing to the eye and convenient to read on different kinds of gadgets.
Customizable Layout
The blog module allows using a handy constructor for data blocks and posts. Drag, add, delete, and change blocks position to make the layout meet your specific needs.
Manage Blog Post Display
Specify flexible settings to display your posts as you wish. You can choose the posts quantity per page and a number of recent posts in the block, fine-tune RSS options and determine the parts of the blog that should be added into the sitemap. It's also possible to define colours for the icons displayed at the top of a blog post (e.g., a number of views or the print button).
Show 3D Tags Cloud On A Blog Page
With the extension, you can implement a 3D tags cloud as interactive website navigation to let your customers choose topics they like at first glance. You can also preselect a text colour, size and a colour scheme of the cloud.
Power Up Social Media
Easily spread useful and entertaining content. Sharing boosts SEO as links that are viral on Facebook or Twitter seem more credible for Google. Blog Pro plugin allows you to add social sharing buttons to each post page.
SEO Optimization
This blog extension allows you to effortlessly create SEO-friendly URLs and add metadata to the whole blog, particular posts, categories, and tags. All of these actions are a positive influence on your website position in search results.
Handy WYSIWYG Editor
The editor provides an elegant way of editing blog posts. You can quickly format texts, change fonts and create a table or a list.
More Options
- Enhance your blog visual storytelling due to integration with Magento 2.3 Page Builder.
- Schedule posts to be published at a predetermined date and hour.
- Benefit from the compatibility with the latest EU's GDPR requirements.
- The module offers a rich set of handy tools to make your work with blog posts fast and easy.
- Allow or disable guest comments to stimulate discussions.
- Manual comments approval.
- Keep dialogue with customers by letting them leave comments and vote for posts.
Demo:
| Configure the extension as an Admin — Backend Settings| |See the way Blog Pro works on the frontend — blog posts examples|
User Guide:
| Learn how to configure the extension with our detailed User Guide|
Our Support Policy:
- Free lifetime updates;
- 3 months of free support services including;
- 25-day Marketplace Return Policy.
Technical Specifications
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Current Version
2.8.0
Magento platform compatibility
Open Source (CE): 2.3 (current), 2.4 (current), 2.1 (obsolete), 2.2 (obsolete)
Commerce on prem (EE): 2.3 (current), 2.4 (current), 2.1 (obsolete), 2.2 (obsolete)
Commerce on Cloud (ECE): 2.3 (current), 2.4 (current)
Type
Stable Build
Updated
31 May, 2021
Categories
Extensions, Content & Customizations, Product Content, Rich Media
Supported Browsers
Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Edge, IE
Quality Report
Back to topAll tests were conducted on the latest versions of Magento that existed for the compatible release lines at the moment of the extension submission. Latest versions of all other software were used, as applicable.
Release Notes
Back to top2.8.0:
- Compatible with Open Source (CE) : 2.3 2.4
- Compatible with Commerce on prem (EE) : 2.3 2.4
- Compatible with Commerce on Cloud (ECE) : 2.3 2.4
- Stability: Stable Build
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Description:
Version 2.8.0
2.8.0 - Apr 30, 2021:
New we implemented architecture modifications to the blog pages layout to make it available in layout updates - now you can add any widgets you need to blog pages to make them more informative and attractive
2.7.0 - Feb 24, 2021:
New now you can display related products on the post page as well as show related posts on linked products' pages
New we added a new tab to the Customer Accountto let customers keep track on the posts they liked or commented
New we added canonical URLs to blog pages
New now you can configure URL keys of categories, tags and authors per store view
New now customers can share blog posts via WhatsApp
New now you can set a description for category pages
New now your customers can be notified about new comments to the thread they participate in
2.6.0 - Dec 21, 2020:
New we created a separate layout block for an author - now you can share more information about author of the post with your readers including photo, description and links to various social networks
New we added new option for URL Postfix setting: now you can use Slash( “/“) as value
2.5.6 - Aug 13, 2020:
Compatibility we designed integration with Amasty GDPR extension
2.5.5 - Jul 24, 2020:
Improvement we implemented several enhancements to AMP versions of blog pages: validation of comment form, display of comments and tags widgets, currency switcher
Compatibility we enhanced compatibility with Varnish
2.5.4 - May 25, 2020:
Improvement we reviewed and enhanced module GraphQl
Fix we resolved the issue with Blog Post preview
2.5.2 - Apr 06, 2020:
Improvement now AMP part of plugin supports authors' pages
2.5.0 - Mar 03, 2020:
New now extension supports multistore configuration for categories, authors and tags
2.4.5:
- Compatible with Open Source (CE) : 2.2 2.3
- Compatible with Commerce on prem (EE) : 2.2 2.3
- Stability: Stable Build
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Description:
2.0.0 - Apr 16, 2019:
New: introducing new user interface and refined UX
New: ability to create multi-level category tree and assign Blog Posts in subcategory was added
2.1.0 - Apr 30, 2019:
New: introducing a new user interface of the article creation page in the backend
New: readers are able to see 'More posts from the author' in a separate page
New: ability to preview post in the backend to see how the article would look at the front before it was published
New: the microdata (breadcrumb, author, name, description, image) was added to better index the articles and make the blog more SEO friendly
Improvement: readers are able to see the number of posts in each category now
2.3.0 - Jul 23, 2019:
New: we added the WordPress Import functionality so that if you already have a blog on WordPress and need to transfer all the posts, comments, tags, authors and media files to your Magento installation, you can now easily do it in few clicks
2.4.0 - Aug 06, 2019:
New: we added a new option that allows you to pin featured posts at the top of the Blog page to draw more readers' attention
New: we have introduced the ‘Like’ control functionality, so now it’s possible to vote for posts on the frontend. It will help you to indicate which topics are more helpful and interesting for your readers
Improvement: now the post’s views counter is available in the backend. It shows the number of times each post was viewed on the frontend
Compatibility: we added the compatibility with GraphQL. It allows to expose the data like post page, recent posts, posts grid, recent comments, comments, categories tree, tags, author page, category page etc. in order to build PWA/JS-based frontend
Fix: we solved minor issues
2.4.5 - Jan 29, 2020:
Fix: we corrected minor visual imperfections on post edit page in the admin panel
1.1.2:
- Compatible with Open Source (CE) : 2.1 2.2
- Compatible with Commerce on prem (EE) : 2.1 2.2
- Stability: Stable Build
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Description:
v1.1.2
1.1.0:
- Compatible with Open Source (CE) : 2.1 2.2
- Compatible with Commerce on prem (EE) : 2.1 2.2
- Stability: Stable Build
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Description:
v1.1.0
– Added the ability to set image size for blog pages.
1.0.10:
- Compatible with Open Source (CE) : 2.1 2.2
- Stability: Stable Build
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Description:
Version 1.0.2
1.0.1:
- Compatible with Open Source (CE) : 2.1 2.2
- Stability: Stable Build
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Description:
Version 1.0.2
Support
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