In a world where competition does not scale, you have to stay on top. In the world of Magento solutions, we help you keep abreast of the latest trends that are important for e-commerce.
In fact, some things are always relevant to help you stay ahead:
- website speed
- user-friendly website functionality
- the number of visitors to the e-commerce website.
Understanding the importance of mentioned above, we have been adding lots of improvements to both Magento and Magento 2 modules. After all, they are one of the competitive advantages of any successful e-commerce website.
Let’s focus on the enhancements for Magento 2 modules, first.
What’s new in Magento 2 modules
FireCheckout is on top of things. There are a lot of cool new features to be used:
- New distraction free “Empty” page layout.
- “I Agree” button was added to the Agreement popup.
- New “1 Column (Multistep Wizard)” checkout page layout.
- Ability to configure the default Shipping and Payment methods.
- Ability to hide the "Shipping methods" step, if only one method is available.
- Added missing en_US.csv translation file.
- Mobile styles cleanup.
As you know, the best Magento 2 one page checkout extension comes with some other modules in package. See the updates:
- Address Field Manager 1.1.1 is compatible with Magento 2.1 now. The module comes with fixed incorrect sort order in a backend grid.
- Checkout Cart 1.1.2 release brings the fixed vertical alignment of button and input fields and a fixed visible scrollbar on tablet devices.
- Checkout Success 1.1.1 has a fixed typo in config section name.
- Delivery Date 1.1.1 release brings a fixed too wide input field and a fixed js error, when no shipping methods are available.
Magento 2 banner module was updated to help you to catch users' attention within seconds. Please pay attention to Upgrade Instructions first. The major changes in Easy Banners 1.2.0
are:
- Page URL.
- Periodical date conditions (Day of week and Day of a month).
- Periodical per-visitor conditions (Display count per day, week, month).
- Product attribute conditions (Currently viewing product).
- “Don’t show anymore” action added to lightbox and awesomebar banners.
- New predefined HTML layouts.
- Ability to assign placeholder to parent container without using ‘Widgets’ page.
Other fixes and improvements for Easy Banners are:
- Fixed not-working banner when it assigned to multiple stores
- Improved popup styles and positioning
- Backend forms were rewritten into UI components
- Code cleanup.
Ajax Layered Navigation 1.1.1 release is full of good tips to create the advanced layered navigation in your store. You can see lots of fixes and improvements in release:
- Fixed using attribute ‘rating_summary’.
- Fixed IE /li>
- Fixed price filter show.
- Improved js docs style.
- Fixed bad URLs for ‘Sort by’ and ‘Show per page’ drop-downs.
- Fixed clearAll url logic.
- Apply filters + seourl.
- Added translate.
- Improved code style.
Navigation Pro 1.2.0 release brings the ability to set positioning settings for the first level dropdown:
- Stick to Left.
- Center.
- Stick to Right.
SEO Suite 0.9 extension includes new module SEO Pagination that will help you to improve a presentation of paginated content for search engines. See what you get:
- SEO pagination for category pages, Swissup Highlight pages, and Swissup Attribute pages.
- Prevent duplicate links to the first page of paginated content.
- ‘View-all’ link in pagination toolbar.
- Option to use rel=” next” and rel=”prev” instead of rel=”canonical” at pages with pagination.
SEO Suite comes with Rich Snippets and SEO URLs modules in package. The updates for Rich Snippets are:
- Fixed duplicated product structured data on a product page. Now preview feature of Google testing tool works as it should.
- Minify JSON-LD structured data.
- No empty nodes in JSON-LD structured data.
- Overall source code improvements.
The updates for SEO URLs are:
- Fix URL parsing when URL rewrite ends with ‘/’.
- Disable SEO URLs when direct controller URL used instead of URL rewrite.
- Improved integration with Swissup LAN module (stock filter, rating filter, new filter).
- Improved query string parsing when multiple values applied to filter.
- If filter separator enabled add it to URLs only when there are applied filters.
- Overall source code improvements.
Ajax Pro 1.2.4-1.2.5 improvements:
- Added product.view popup on home page.
- Added check is response json.
- Added integration with ?option=cart.
- Added translation.
- Removed MEQP.Exit workaround.
Ajax Search and Autocomplete 1.2.7 release brings the following fixes:
- Fix not ‘relevance’ sort by.
- Restore original container ‘header-wrapper’.
- Fix query product unit test.
Facebook Like Button 1.1.1 changes are:
- New custom Like button.
- Fixed issues that occurred in some environments when JS minification enabled.
- Same URLs to like for product on a category page and on a product page.
- Overall source code improvements.
Product Questions 1.1.12 module comes with fixed getEntityTypeLabel return null bug and some minor code improvements.
What’s new in Magento modules
FireCheckout 4.2.6 has no competition for the number of compatible third-party modules. With the latest release, you get even more opportunity to use the famous payment and shipping methods on your checkout page. That really impacts the good customer experience.
- Added ability to programmatically disable address fields
- Added additional container after customer name field - firecheckout.shipping.name.after, firecheckout.billing.name.email.after
- Added additional container at the bottom of shipping methods section - firecheckout.shipping.after
- TIG_MyParcel2014 integration updated
- Plumtree_Storepickup integration added
- Magegiant_GiantPoints integration added
- BongoInternational integration added
- Amasty_Checkoutfees integration added
- Easynolo_Bancaselapro integration added.
Other fixes and improvements in FireCheckout are:
- Fixed ability to place the order with a saved address when it missing some required field.
- Prevent multiple concurrent ajax requests that may cause invalid totals.
- Fixed missing free shipping on initial page load when free shipping is applicable in registration mode only.
- Fixed address review styles when shipping address is disabled.
- Fixed missing phone and fax in address review section.
Ajax Pro 3.3.21 release comes with additional content at bottom of login popup via xml "ajaxpro_customer_login.form.after". You can also see fixed integration productAddToCartForm.oldSubmit.
Page Speed 1.3.0 improvements are:
- Code refactoring.
- Increase (fix) error reporting (logging) logic.
- Improve google service response prepare.
- Disabled Yahoo image optimizes service.
- Disables DNS prefetch on AMP pages.
- Skipped too much file compressing (more 85%).
- Renamed method smush => optimize.
Helpdesk 1.7.4 updates are:
- Set default priority value for usePriorityOnFrontend == false case.
- Disabled unsupported dashboard tickets grid functionality.
- Fixed encoding bug.
- Fixed incorrect ticket identification by In-Reply-To header.
- Multiple updates.
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