ChaosBuzz – Social Blog for PrestaShop 8 & 9

A blog your customers will actually read

ChaosBuzz turns your PrestaShop blog into a social feed. Post news, offers and behind-the-scenes moments with photos or a YouTube video, and let your customers react and comment - just like on social media, but on your own shop.

No complicated blog editor, no categories to manage. Write, add photos, post. Done.

For your customers

• Clean social feed with your cover photo, page name and picture - pinned posts first, newest next, more posts load as you scroll.
• Photo grids for 1 to 10 photos and a full-screen photo viewer (arrows, keyboard and swipe).
• YouTube videos - paste a link; the video only loads after a click, using the privacy-enhanced youtube-nocookie.com player.
• React button with our own icons - Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Hot and Sad. Quick tap for Like, hover or press and hold for more. You choose which reactions to show.
• Comments with replies from your page marked with an Author badge.
• Clickable #hashtags - every hashtag opens a page with all matching posts.
• A page for every post with Open Graph tags, so shared links show the text and photo.
• Made for phones.

For you, the shop owner

• Post straight from your shop front when logged in with an author account - text, up to 10 photos (resized automatically) and a YouTube video. Pin or delete posts from the post menu.
• Simple back office under Improve > ChaosBuzz Blog: Posts, Comments, Import / Export and Settings.
• Make it yours: page name, tagline, profile picture, cover photo or two-colour gradient, accent colours, reactions, comments on/off, blog URL.
• Homepage widget in four layouts - Cards, Slider, List or Mini feed (full posts with React and Comment). Filter by hashtag.
• Place the widget anywhere: any theme position (Design > Positions), page builders that can show a module such as Creative Elements, or a theme template with {widget name='chaosbuzz'}.
• Import your old blog from WordPress (export file), any RSS / Atom feed (Blogger, Wix, Medium, Substack, other PrestaShop blog modules) or a ChaosBuzz backup - with photos, comments and original dates. Duplicates are skipped.
• One-click ZIP backup of all posts, photos, videos and comments.
• Moderation: hide or delete comments, rate limit against spam, only logged-in customers can react and comment.

Built the PrestaShop way

• PrestaShop 8.0 to 9.x, tested on PrestaShop 9.2 with the Hummingbird and Classic themes.
• No override, no core changes. Friendly URLs (yourshop.com/blog).
• GDPR ready: works with the official PrestaShop GDPR module (export and erase a customer's comments and reactions).
• Secure: escaped templates, tokens on every action, validated uploads.
• Translatable from International > Translations.
• Full PDF user guide included.

What you get

• The ChaosBuzz module zip, ready to upload in Modules > Module Manager
• A PDF user guide
• 12 months of updates and email support with the Single site licence (1 live domain + staging)
• Instant download from your account after payment

Requirements

PrestaShop 8.0 - 9.x, PHP 7.2 - 8.4, GD, ZipArchive and SimpleXML (standard on most hosting).

Support

Questions? Email us at admin@chaostech.net. We usually reply within 1 working day.

See the Software licence agreement and our refund guarantee.

ChaosBuzz is made by ChaosTech, a brand of MIKOMI LTD (United Kingdom) - themikomi.co.uk

Changelog

Version 1.0.0
- First release