Feed - Magento 2 module documentation

Autor: Lukas Paliwoda

Feed Module

Module overview

Our module adds functionality for generate product feeds that allows promote your products in popular shoping channels. With easy confuguration you can generate feeds manually or schedule automatic tasks. This exposure your shop to wider customer range and increase your products sales.

Module compatibility

This module is compatibile with Magento Community versions: 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4.

How it works

After installing the module, you will get two menu items in Admin Panel which first of them takes you to product feeds grid.

Product Feeds Image 1

In products feeds grid you can add another feed for your products.

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To create new feed you need to specify basic fields like name, filename, fequency of generation and template. You can also add additional conditions to your products feeds list.

Product Feeds Image 3

After saving, the feed can be generated using the Generate option or automatically generated according to the set frequency.

ATTENTION! To generate correct content of the file, it is necessary to save it before selecting the "Generate" option

Product Feeds Image 4

The second option allows you to create mappings for categories. After switching to Mapping Categories you will be redirected to the grid.

Product Feeds Image 7

To create a mapping, complete the basic configuration fields such as code, name and we can exclude selected categories from the mapping. After creating the record, you can edit it to add mapping names.

Product Feeds Image 8

Module configuration can be found in Stores -> Configuration under Catalog -> Catalog menu.

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Module configuration covers basic functionality like enable/disable module, specify directory path for generated feeds or schedule automaticaly feed generaion.

Product Feeds Image 6

Demo

demo1.magecreation.com

Installation

Composer

  • Add repo to composer.json:
"repositories": [
    ...
    {
        "type": "vcs",
        "url": "git@git.auroracreation.com:magento2/feed.git"
    }
    ...
],
  • Add package to composer.json:
"require": {
    ...
    "aurora/feed": "~1.5"
    ...
},
  • In Magento root folder run commands:
$ composer update aurora/feed
$ php bin/magento module:enable Aurora_Feed
$ php bin/magento setup:upgrade

Manual

  1. Unzip archive.
  2. Upload extension files on your server to:
{Magento root}
└── app/
    └── code
  1. In Magento root folder run commands:
php bin/magento module:enable Aurora_Feed
php bin/magento setup:upgrade

Change log

v2.0.0

  • The feed generation process has been modified
  • Moved the manual feed generation button to the form
  • Added progress bar display during manual generation
  • Added configuration field - number of products per page when manually generating the feed
  • The file template has been modified - the template has been divided into 3 parts - header, content and footer

v1.10.0

  • Code refactoring

v1.9.2

  • Code improvement for Magento 2.4.5

v1.9.1

  • Excluding inactive categories from the filter

v1.8.23

  • Adding display of description without tags

v1.8.22

  • Changing accesses to some functions

v1.8.21

  • Changing the way to create a path to a category

v1.8.20

  • Improved URL creation

v1.8.19

  • Bug fix for empty tables

v1.8.18

  • Changes to ProdcutAdapter

v1.8.17

  • Fix to problematic method.

v1.8.15

  • Creating a new method to display galleries

v1.8.14

  • Adding a default theme

v1.8.13

  • Mapping fix

v1.8.12

  • Improved mapping

v1.8.11

  • Bug fixes

v1.8.10

  • Addition of color selection for names

v1.8.9

  • Bug fixes

v1.8.8

  • Bug fixes

v1.8.7

  • Registry fix

v1.8.6

  • Registry fix

v1.8.5

  • Fixing of some buttons

v1.8.4

  • Refactoring of the code

v1.8.3

  • Improvement of database schema

v1.8.2

  • Bug fixes

v1.8.1

  • Bug fixes