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Magento 2 Shop by Brand adds a designated page that lists all brands presented in a store. From there, users can navigate to particular brand pages with related products. More to it, the module allows displaying a widget with all and featured brands across different site pages and in various page positions and promote brand-related cross-sells via the 'More from this brand' block.

Compatibility: Magento Open Source 2.3.X - 2.4.X, Magento Commerce 2.3.X - 2.4.X

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Installing Shop by Brand

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 4. In SSH console of your server navigate to your store root folder:

cd path_to_the_store_root_folder

run the following command: :

php -f bin/magento module:enable Aheadworks_ShopByBrand

then:

php -f bin/magento setup:upgrade

after:

php -f bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

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If you are installing an extension from Aheadworks for the first time, you need to add our composer repository to your Magento store:

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To install the extension:

2. Login to your ssh console and navigate to your store folder:

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 3. Run the following command to install the latest version of the extension:

composer require aheadworks/module-shop-by-brand

if you need to install a specific version, run this command:

composer require aheadworks/module-shop-by-brand:<version>

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4. Enable the extension:

php -f bin/magento module:enable <Module_Name>

Next, register the extension:

bin/magento setup:upgrade

Recompile your Magento store if you are in the Production mode:

bin/magento setup:di:compile

To verify that the extension is enabled, run this command:

bin/magento module:status

Clean store cache, by running the following command:

bin/magento cache:clean

Log out and Log in the backend again.

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To upgrade the extension:

5. To update or upgrade an extension:

Download the updated extension file. Take note of the module-name and version. Export the contents to your Magento root.

If a composer package exists for the extension, run one of the following.

composer update aheadworks/module-shop-by-brand

composer require aheadworks/module-shop-by-brand:<version>

Run the following commands to upgrade, deploy, and clean the cache.

php bin/magento setup:upgrade --keep-generated
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
php bin/magento cache:clean

Migrating Shop by Brand from Magento 1 to Magento 2

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Below the 'General Information' settings, you can define the brand's description per store view using the 'What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)' editor. The 'Content' section of the page also includes the 'Meta Title' and 'Meta Description' sections useful for SEO and the 'Store View' selector if you run multiple stores and need to adjust your brand page separately for each store view.

Managing Brand Products

You can add any number of products from the catalog to brand pages. Once you've created a new brand page, the dedicated 'Brand products' grid becomes available. It allows selecting the required items either one by one or massively.

In order to find a particular product, you can search it by ID, Name, SKU, Price, and Visibility. Moreover, you can change the display order of brand-related products on the page by manually specifying the appropriate values in the 'Position' column. Respectively, the item with the '1' value will go first in the list.

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Brands on the Storefront

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Shop by Brand Category

If required, you can create a dedicated brand category.

To do this:

1) Create a new category and configure it as you need;

2) Navigate to Content > Widgets and add the new widget of the 'Brands' type;

3) Set the layout updates for the widget to make sure it is displayed in the required category.

After all the required parameters are configured, you will get something like this:

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Brand Page

Each brand page features brand descriptions and logos you previously set. Below the brand's description, customers can find products related to the corresponding brand.

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Product Pages

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Products belonging to a particular brand can have this brand featured on their pages. You can either display a brand logo or a brand logo plus brand description.

Brand Widget

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A widget featuring all brands presented in the store can be placed in any required page position as well as across different store pages. To add the widget, go to Content > Widgets and find it in the list of all Magento 2 widgets.

Uninstalling Shop by Brand 

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Manual Removal

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1. Disable the module by executing the following commands:

php bin/magento module:disable Aheadworks_ShopByBrand
php bin/magento setup:upgrade

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2. Remove the extension files from the following folder:

app/code/Aheadworks/ShopByBrand

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Automatic Removal (via Composer)

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1. Disable the module by executing the following commands:

php bin/magento module:uninstall Aheadworks_ShopByBrand

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What should I know before migrating the Aheadworks Shop by Brand for M1 to Shop by Brand for M2?

 1. Log into your Magento server as a file owner and navigate to the directory where you have your Magento 2 store installed.

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cd /var/www/my_magento2_store/

2. Install the Magento Data Migration Tool.

 3. Download the Shop by Brand migration distributive and unpack it to the required location.

 4. Copy the contents of the Shop by Brand migration distributive to the Magento Data Migration Tool's main folder.

 5. Edit the config.xml file in the Magento Data Migration Tool

 6. Run the migration script in the console

To start the migration process, run the following command considering the path to config.xml :

bin/magento migrate:data [-r|--reset] {<path to config.xml>}

You can also use the following command considering the path to config.xml:

bin/magento migrate:data -r vendor/magento/data-migration-tool/etc/aw_rma/config.xml

Describing the Migration Process

There is a difference between building a brand in the M1 module and the same process in the M2 module.

In M1 Shop By Brand you can create any number of brands with any products assigned to them.

In M2 Shop By Brand before creating a brand, first, you need to select a product attribute in the extension settings. After that each option of that attribute becomes a brand.

In order to migrate data successfully from M1 to M2, the following has to be done:

3. For each M1 brand migrated to M2, there will be an option (a value for the attribute) created with the name of brand’s title.

To create the option automatically, you need to type true for the <aw_sbb_create_attribute_option_if_not_exist> config.

After the migration is completed, the attribute will be automatically selected as a brand attribute in the extension settings.

Flush the cache to see the result.

Note that each attempt to migrate the data will remove all the previously created brands.

Introducing Shop by Brand

Extension Settings 

Creating Brands

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Converting Attributes into Brands

The Shop by Brand extension allows you to convert the existing attributes into brands. As we said earlier, only attributes of the drop-down type can be converted.

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Here you can create attribute values that can later be set as your brands while adding new brand pages.

Brand Pages Grid

To create a new brand, navigate to the 'Brands' grid in Catalog > Shop by Brand by Aheadworks > Brand Pages.

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The 'Brand Pages' grid contains the following columns:

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Adding a Brand Page

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The 'New Brand' page comes with the following settings:

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