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07/10/2026

🛍️ Is your Magento 2 store ready for Black Friday & Cyber Monday?
The biggest sales season of the year can bring a huge increase in traffic, orders, promotions — and bots. That’s why preparation should start before the rush.

Here’s a quick Magento 2 BFCM checklist from Magefan:
🔹 Optimize product pages
Help shoppers discover relevant products faster with Magento 2 Automatic Related Products, Product Widget, and Dynamic Blocks & Pages.

🔹 Plan your offers and discounts
Create and highlight Black Friday deals with Magento 2 Coupon Code and Product Labels, while using Magento 2 Omnibus Price Tracker to monitor price changes.

🔹 Check analytics and tracking
Understand how campaigns perform from ad click to purchase with OpenAI Ads Conversion Tracking and TikTok Pixel for Magento 2

🔹 Review store security
More traffic can also mean more unwanted bot activity. Magento 2 Bot Blocker helps block suspicious traffic, reduce unnecessary server load, and protect your store.

A successful BFCM campaign isn't just about bigger discounts — it’s about having your Magento store ready to handle the demand. 🚀

👉 Explore the Magento 2 tools for Black Friday & Cyber Monday:

06/10/2026

⚡ What are the best Magento 2 speed optimization extensions?

Magento performance isn't usually affected by just one thing. Large images, JavaScript, uncached pages, and unnecessary resource loading can all contribute to a slow storefront.

That's why Magento speed optimization often requires several techniques working together.

Magefan offers a range of Magento 2 speed optimization extensions designed to address different performance areas.

🖼️ Image optimization helps reduce the size of product and content images.

⚡ Full Page Cache Warmer helps make sure important pages are cached before customers request them.

👀 Image Lazy Load prevents unnecessary images from loading before they're needed.

📜 JavaScript optimization can reduce the impact of scripts on initial page rendering.

The best combination depends on your store, theme, catalog, and current performance bottlenecks.

For Magento merchants and agencies, the goal isn't simply a better PageSpeed score, it's a faster storefront and a better experience for real customers.

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01/10/2026

🚀 Magefan September 2026 News & Updates

Another month of improvements across our Magento 2 extensions.

This month, we’ve been working on our new Magento 2 OpenAI Ads Conversion Tracking extension and improvements across AI, SEO, blogging, translations, performance, and store management.

Want to see what’s new and what might be useful for your store?

👉 Explore the full September 2026 update roundup https://magefan.com/blog/news-and-updates-september-2026

29/09/2026

Congratulations to our trusted partner - M2E Pro with going live on Adobe Exchange Marketplace! Great people and great company to work with 😊

We’re officially live on Adobe Exchange Marketplace 🚀

Adobe Commerce Cloud sellers can now find and install M2E through the Adobe ecosystem, then connect marketplaces like Amazon.com, eBay, Walmart Marketplace, TikTok Shop, SHEIN, Temu, Kaufland Global Marketplace, OTTO, OnBuy, and more.

From there, you can manage listings, product data, inventory, and marketplace connections with M2E without treating every channel as a separate setup.

24/09/2026

🔍 How do you prevent search spam in Magento 2?

Search spam can be more than an annoying list of strange queries in your admin. Automated searches can consume server resources, pollute analytics, and make it harder to understand what real customers are looking for.

The Magefan Search Spam Filter option in the Bot Blocker helps merchants identify and block unwanted search requests before they become a bigger problem.

A Magento search spam filter can be particularly useful for stores experiencing:

• automated search requests
• suspicious or repetitive queries
• large amounts of irrelevant search traffic
• unnecessary server load caused by bots

Keeping search functionality protected is another part of maintaining a healthy Magento store—especially for stores with large catalogs and high traffic volumes.

👉 Learn how Magento search spam filtering works:
https://magefan.com/blog/magento-2-search-spam-filter

Guide on how to enable Magento 2 search spam filter to block malicious search requests and prevent bots from wasting your server resources and crawl budget.

18/09/2026

🌍 Google Translate vs DeepL vs ChatGPT for Magento 2

Which AI or machine translator is right for your Magento 2 store?

With Magefan Translation for Magento 2, you can use Google Translate, DeepL, or ChatGPT directly in your Magento workflow.

• Google Translate — broad language coverage and fast translations
• DeepL — natural-sounding translations for supported languages
• ChatGPT — flexible AI translation with greater attention to context and tone

The right choice depends on your languages, catalog size, content type, and translation requirements.

👉 Learn more about Magento 2 Translation Extension:
https://magefan.com/magento-2-translation-extension

11/09/2026

🤖 How do you create an LLMs.txt file for Magento?

As AI-powered search and answer engines become more important, merchants are looking for ways to make their website content easier for AI systems to understand.

One solution is an LLMs.txt file: a structured file that provides AI systems with information about the important content and resources available on your website.

For Magento, there are two practical ways to create LLMs.txt.

1️⃣ Generate it automatically

The Magefan LLMs TXT Generator can create the file automatically from your store content, saving merchants from maintaining it manually.

2️⃣ Create it manually

You can also create and maintain an LLMs.txt file yourself, using your Magefan's Magento SEO Extension setup and deciding which pages and resources you want to make available to AI systems.

For larger Magento stores, automatic generation can make ongoing maintenance much easier, especially as products, categories, and content change.

If you're working on Magento AI visibility, GEO, or AI search optimization, LLMs.txt is worth understanding.

👉 Learn how to create LLMs.txt for Magento:
https://magefan.com/magento-2-llms-txt-generator/documentation

08/09/2026

🤖 What can an AI Assistant actually do in Magento 2?

AI in eCommerce isn't only about generating product descriptions or blog posts. It can also make everyday Magento administration faster.

The Magefan AI Assistant for Magento brings an AI-powered assistant directly into the Magento admin, allowing merchants and administrators to interact with store data using natural language.

So, what can you use a Magento 2 AI Assistant for?

🔎 Finding information: ask questions about your Magento store instead of manually searching through different admin sections.

📦 Working with products and categories: get help with catalog-related tasks and information.

🛒 Managing orders and customers: interact with store data more naturally when looking for specific information.

📄 Working with CMS and other Magento entities: access and work with store information without constantly jumping between admin pages.

The biggest advantage is simple: you can ask instead of search.

For Magento merchants, administrators, and teams managing large stores, this can make the backend much easier to work with.

👉 Meet Magefan AI Assistant for Magento:
https://magefan.com/magento-2-ai-agent

07/09/2026

Meet Magento Ukraine 2026: What a day! 💙💛

Meet Magento Ukraine 2026 was last week, and we’re still processing how many great conversations happened in just one event.

This year, Magefan was proud to join as a Silver Sponsor and, more importantly, to meet so many Magento developers, merchants, agencies, and eCommerce professionals in person.

There were plenty of familiar faces, new people, interesting conversations about Magento and Adobe Commerce, and, of course, a lot of people stopping by to say hi.

Events like this remind us why the Magento community is so special: it’s not just about extensions and technology, but about the people building stores, solving problems, sharing knowledge, and helping each other grow.

A huge thank you to everyone who came to see us!

We already can't wait to come back for Meet Magento Ukraine 2027. See you there! 👋

01/09/2026

🚀 Magefan News & Updates — August 2026

August brought some of our biggest updates yet, with a strong focus on AI-powered Magento management, security, and everyday store performance.

🤖 The Magefan AI Assistant is now available for Magento 2, bringing an AI-powered chat directly into the admin. Merchants and administrators can use natural language to work with products, categories, orders, pages, cart price rules, and more, all from one place.

🛡️ Bot Blocker also received a major upgrade. Merchants now have more control over bot restrictions, traffic monitoring, and reCAPTCHA rules, making it easier to distinguish unwanted traffic from legitimate visitors.

✍️ Magefan Blog got several improvements to make content management and sharing more flexible, including new WhatsApp and email sharing options and sticky sidebar blocks.

We also improved compatibility and stability across Magefan Automatic Related Products, Extended Product Grid, Store Switcher, Zero Downtime Deployment, YouTube Video, and several Shopify apps.

👉 See everything included in the August 2026 updates in the comments.