Documentation for Blog

Blog is a fully featured blogging suite. It's a perfect way to provide your Customers with valuable content. By Adding Blog to your Store you can write Blog Articles.

This extension is providing below functionalities.

• Add Related Products
• Display Recent Posts
• Display Featured Posts
• Pin Post at The Top
• Preview Posts
• Social Sharing Buttons
• Add Comments in Posts
• Add Related Post Through Tag

There are two ways of installing extension in magento2.

1. Using COMMAND LINE.
   
2. Manually Install extension.
   

Option 1: Magento 2 install extension using COMMAND LINE (Recommended)

Follow below steps to install extension from the command line.

Step 1: Download the extension and unzip it.

Step 2: Upload it to code directory in your magento installation’s app directory If code directory does not exists then create.

Step 3: Disable the cache under System → Cache Management.

Step 4: Enter the following at the command line:

           Php bin/magento setup:upgrade
           Php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

Step 5: Once you complete above steps log out and log in back to the admin panel and switch to Stores → Configuration → Mageants → Blog., the module will be displayed in the admin panel.

Option 2: Magento 2 install extension manually

Step 1: Download the extension and unzip it.

Step 2: Upload it to code directory in your magento installation’s app directory If code directory does not exists then create.

Step 3: Disable the cache under System → Cache Management Edit app/etc/config.php file and add one line code: ‘Mageants_Blog.’ ⇒ 1

Step 4: Disable the cache under System → Cache Management

Step 5: Once you complete above steps log out and log in back to the admin panel and switch to Stores → Configuration → Mageants → Blog. the module will be displayed in the admin panel.

Admin can set configuration as per below screenshot.

You can set Blog Details & enable/disable

Please go to Stores ⇒ Conguration ⇒ Mageants ⇒ Blog.

In Enable, choose Yes to enable the extension, or No to disable it.

Please go to Contents ⇒ Authors ⇒ Add New

• When Create Post that time must be require Author because your post is which author to assign so you need to Create Author.

Please go to Contents ⇒ Categories ⇒ Add New

• When Create Post that time must be require category because your Post is which category to assign so you need to create category.

Please go to Contents ⇒ Posts ⇒ Add New Post

• Create New Blog Posts with Image, Categories, Tags, Author.

Please go to Contents ⇒ Comments

Go to Content ⇒ Elements ⇒ Widgets

Click Add Widget button to create a new widget.

To create the Recent Posts Widget, choose Blog:Recent Posts in Type.

To create the Recent Posts Large Widget, choose Blog:Recent Posts Large in Type.