Another Magento 2 theme we are going to draw your attention to is Furnicom. It is a modern and professional solution aimed at online furniture shops and interior stores. Like Sawyer, Furnicom comes with 5 homepage layouts and tons of useful features. Below, we describe its core elements (homepage, category and product pages, cart, and checkout) and shed light on main features. Continue Reading
Several new Magento 2 templates and themes are available on the ThemeForest website, so we are going to review the newcomers. And the first one to be reviewed is Sawyer – a responsive Magento 2 theme that includes 5 unique homepage layouts and different color styles – enough to choose a unique appearance for your ecommerce storefront. Since the theme is multipurpose, it ideally suits to anything from clothes to electronics, transforming a boring website into a dynamic storefront optimized for top-notch shopping experience. Below, we will introduce you to the theme’s core features and elements (home, catalog, and product pages, cart, and checkout). Continue Reading
To improve search engine indexation and user navigation on a Magento web store, ecommerce merchants should think about using HTML and XML sitemaps tools, since default Magento platform does not provide sufficient functionality for this. That шы why another Magento extension we are going to describe today is MageWorx Sitemap Suite.
The MageWorx Sitemap Suite Magento 2 toolkit provides merchants with everything they need to create advanced fully-optimised HTML and XML sitemaps. The module is designed to improve user experience by creating a snapshot of all your website links in the form of a Magento 2 HTML sitemap. It means that HTML sitemap will collect all your website links in a table of contents on one page, providing visitors with a comprehensive overview of your site layout. As a result, your store visitors get better navigation through your ecommerce website structure and can reach the pages they need faster.
Besides, you can help search engines, which do not understand HTML sitemaps, better crawl and index your store pages with the Magento 2 XML sitemap. Since XML sitemap includes files with all URLs on your web store that need to be indexed in search engines, Google will faster identify important information about relevant pages and their updates. Thus, with the extension, you significantly improve search engine indexation and your website’s SEO in the long term. Moreover, the MageWorx sitemap module is fully compliant with all Google requirements.
It is also necessary to mention that MageWorx Sitemap Suite not only provides the following opportunities, but adds a lot of advanced settings to the default sitemap creation process, and below we shed light on them.
The MageWorx Cross Links extension is designed to optimise a current internal store linking structure. The tool lets you save tons of time by eliminating manual work related to adding links to each page of your website. Instead, it automatically replaces keywords or keyword phrases with links to both internal pages or external sources. Thus, you get a perfect opportunity to connect keywords to the product, category, or CMS pages, as well as link them by categories or products. Links connecting thematically relevant site pages drastically improve user experience on an online store, providing customers with enhanced store navigation. When you link your store pages to related websites, you can gain more trust from your web store visitors ensuring them that your store is associated with reliable web sources. Besides that, the well-organised internal linking structure is a must-have to make an online shop search engine friendly. As a result, you drive more traffic to your website promoted pages and evenly distribute page authority and ranking power throughout the site. Besides, you do not have to worry about conflicts that may occur during the cross-linking process, since the MageWorx Magento 2 Cross Links module offers advanced priority settings. Sounds great, so let’s look at the extension’s features in more details.
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Using Rich Snippets on an ecommerce website drastically improves how products, categories, and store info details look in search results and social media feeds. Below, we would like to introduce you to the Extended Rich Snippets extension by MageWorx. With the help of this tool, you will be able to make your store pages better looking and more eye-catching among other search results, consequently increasing your current click-through rate. Thus, your website pages will become notable in Google with images, prices, ratings, SKU, and other details, and generate more targeted traffic. Besides, this Magento 2 rich snippets extension is responsible for adding additional visibility via the social media markups implementation. Using this feature, you can make your posts look more attractive and informative on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media sites. Since specialists consider increased click-through rates and search traffic as ranking signals, rich snippets will add SEO improvements to your Magento website in the long term.
Let’s have a look at the extension’s core features and backend configuration.
Although Mageworx offers a robust SEO tool, SEO Suite Ultimate, there is a less complex solution available on the company’s website – SEO Meta Templates.
The extension allows generating advanced SEO templates for optimisation of large meta data set, as well as product and category descriptions. By optimising essential meta elements, search engines understand your product or category pages better, thus improving your website SEO ranking and click-through rates. The SEO Meta Templates extension enables users to create different types of SEO templates depending on which attributes you want to use, that make your web store pages search engine friendly and more informative. Meta templates is a practical solution for ecommerce businesses of any size that helps merchants to produce unique SEO meta data for any of their website pages.
Below, we shed light on this Magento meta tag template extension describing its core features and backend interface. More Magento SEO tools and tips are available here: Ultimate Guide to Magento SEO; Magento 2 SEO (out-of-the-box features, extensions, tips); and Best Magento SEO Extensions 2016.
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If standard Magento search opportunities are not enough for your ecommerce business, and we know that they are not, pay attention to various Magento 2 search engines. However, if you do not want to deal with a complicated integration procedure, we recommend you to check the best extensions that will completely revamp the way your customers look for something on your website. The best Magento catalog search plugins are gathered here: The Best Magento Extensions For Improved Catalog Search; if you are looking for Magento 2 catalog search tools – check this out: Magento 2 Extensions for Improved Catalog Search. As for this post, below we would like to draw your attention to the MageWorx Search Suite.
The MageWorx Search Suite extension drastically improves default Magento search functionality, providing users with exhaustive tools for configuring and managing onsite catalog search options. Moreover, it allows merchants to get a detailed analysis of search results. The module uses integration with the Sphinx search server, making Magento search faster and more precise. Autocomplete feature together with the as-you-type suggestions instantly shows relevant results and allows customers to find exactly what they are looking for quickly. These features improve user experience on an online shop in general, saving time and enabling website visitors to add the searched items to their cart right from the search result pop-up. In the end, user-friendly and intuitive catalog search functionality increases conversion rates on an online store, brings more profits, and attracts more customers.
Multiple currencies support is vital for international ecommerce businesses. Lacking this feature may result in decreased conversions for an online shop since you will lose money on accepting payments in the currencies other than your local currency. Merchants who cannot provide a multi-currency function to their customers might also face lower customer engagement, as most online shoppers prefer to pay in their home local money. To avoid such challenges, store owners should consider using store and currency switching tools for Magento.
In this post, we would like to draw your attention to two useful tools developed by MageWorx: Store and Currency Auto Switcher and its component that exists as a standalone module – Currency Auto Switcher. With this solutions, you can rapidly expand your business to international markets, using the extension’s automatic detection of customer’s location and auto switching to localised stores and home currencies feature. In this way, your online store becomes more customer-centred and increases customer trust, while you leverage all the module’s functions configured based on your business goals.
Both extensions are available for Magento 2 and 1 and offer almost the same set of features. Below, we describe how the MageWorx Magento 2 currency switcher and Magento 2 store view switcher work.
For merchants who have products with various options in their store, manual creation of custom variants for each product can become a real pain. For instance, you have items of different sizes and colours in your store. Using default Magento platform, you will need to import created custom options for every particular product. If later you would like to change some product attributes, you will have to start the same process from the start.
You no longer have to create options for each product manually, because there is the MageWorx Product Custom Options Templates Magento 2 extension. This Magento 2 custom options extension lets you save hours of time by providing the ability to create multiple templates designed for assigning custom options for any chosen product. With the module, you can create an unlimited number of custom options templates, like colour, size, brand, and many more. If you want to do changes in the product values, you just need to edit a created template in the Magento admin to apply product modifications.
If you are looking for appropriate Magento 1 solution, pay attention to the Advanced Product Options extension. Although it has slightly more extensive functionality, in this post we are going to concentrate on the Magento 2 module, but you can still read this review to get a deeper insight into the way both tools improve the default Magento platform.
Optimisation of the order management workflow is one of the main concerns for ecommerce stores. Any store owner looks into arranging order creation, editing, and archiving processes smoothly and logically. With multiple orders coming in every day, you need a robust solution to manage them. With the help of the MageWorx Magento 2 Order Management extension, you will enhance the default Magento order management workflow, making it faster and more efficient. The module lets you streamline B2C transactions and improve order accuracy by revamping the way you work with order data.
Extend both the Magento 2 or 1.X order functionality and get a smooth order processing workflow. Below, we shed light on extension’s core features and dive deep into its backend. Continue Reading
