50+ updates February 2018 to help you create a site that's what customers need

50+ updates February 2018 to help you create a site that's what customers need.

What plans can lead to a happy future for your website? What could you do to keep customers coming back again and again?

In fact, there are simple ways to ensure your website is an eye candy for the visitors. Some of them are the properly chosen tools, namely the modules and templates.

Both Magento and Magento 2 versions became a trend in an e-commerce world. And, this trend can't be tamed. Thus we keep improving our modules with new features to maintain the high standards of Magento. Please have a look at the list of recent modules’ updates made in February 2018.

We have so much more to tell you. Continue to read.

Argento updates

In recent years, there has been an increase in customer demands for usability. Argento template is the king of positive user experience. In case you haven't heard, there was new release both to M1 Argento and M2 Argento themes. You can see here what's new been done.  

In short:

1.9.6 release for Magento Argento

  • RTL support for Argento Argento and Argento Luxury themes.
  • New expanded layout for product tabs.
  • New option “Sticky tabs header”.
  • New ‘404’ page at Luxury theme.
  • 14 improvements in Argento modules.

1.2.0 release for Magento 2 Argento

  • RTL support for Luxury theme (currently in beta).
  • 19 improvements in Magento 2 modules.
  • New SEO Pagination module as a part of Seo Suite.
  • Luxury theme enhancements.

Magento 2 updates

As we have mentioned previously in our post, there are many ways to edit checkout fields. But there is also the more powerful tool of fields editing. Address Fields Manager module made it easy to do anything with the checkout address fields. New 1.2.0 release includes the following features:

  • Ability to create custom address fields.
  • Ability to set default values for address fields.

How can you benefit from the advantages offered by the module? This article is about that.

Navigation Pro 1.3 module has got the improved behavior on stores with Argento themes and RTL content direction.

Product Questions 1.2.3 changes are:

  • Add i18n translation.
  • Fix customer session bug.

Magento 1 updates

FireCheckout 4.3.0 release brings new third-party modules compatibility, fixes and the calendar option.

  • JS calendar will now use native component on mobile devices when possible.
  • Added ability to disable calendar picker for Date of Birth field.
  • Allow hyphens in checkout URL.
  • Fixed single payment method activation after ajax update.
  • Added missing “customer_address_validation_after” event from new Magento version.
  • Fixed not working address save in customer account page because of Magento’s hardcoded address validation.
  • Sync “customer_address_id” value when shipping address is same as billing.
  • Magento API support improved. SOAP_V2 support added.

Third-party modules compatibility

SEO Suite 0.6.3 release comes with the improvement in SEO Templates module. The  ‘products’ directive for category templates was improved. Works also with attributes that are not filterable.

Attributes and Brands pages 1.4.1 has got improved compatibility with Magento Enterprise Edition.

Ajax Pro 3.3.22 has got a fixed JavaScript error on shopping cart page when AjaxPro disabled for this page.

Easy Catalog Images 2.4.3 has got the improved responsive styles for widget layouts with 3 and 5 columns.

Easy Tabs 3.2.0 changes are:

  • New tabs layout - expanded tabs. You can change tabs layout in extension system config or in widget options.
  • New option “Sticky tabs header” - tabs header sticks to the top of the screen while tabs container is in the user viewport. You can enable a sticky option in extension system config or in widget options.
  • Overall source code improvements.

Highlight 2.7.0 includes new carousel template with ajax content loading.

Lightbox Pro 1.2.6  has got improved extension stability.

Navigation Pro 1.5.6 brings the improved behavior on stores with Argento themes and RTL content direction.

Sold Together 1.5.1 release comes with a c ron option that works only on global level of config. So it is removed on other config levels.

Testimonials 1.2.4 has got fixed missing message after posting new testimonial.

Helpdesk 1.7.5 improvements are:

  • Updated translates.
  • Moved archive email to bbc header.
  • Fixed double event call bug (helpmate_notify_customer_ticket_create).

Abandoned cart 1.2.5

  • Fixed potential XSS.
  • Added escapeUrl.
  • Fixed date format created and modified the column.
  • Fixed setData
  • Fixed store_emails null bug.
  • Fixed collectTotals recursion bug.
  • Added coupon code to mail.
  • Added force history entry create action.

So, what plans do recent releases offer? We believe, the plans on the goals, including the targets relating to traffic increase, higher SEO rankings and sales growth.

Nice to have you with us. Stay tuned.

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