Bring new experience for your customers with August updates for Magento & Magento 2 modules

Bring new experience for your customers with August updates for Magento & Magento 2 modules

What were your aspirations for the August? If you ask us what we had been striving to achieve in the last month, we say we kept working on new features for your website.  

Currently trending: new AMP and Page Speed modules for Magento 2, Argento theme with new features, fresh updates for Magento and Magento 2 modules.

Actually, you've got something to use. Continue to read a blog article to know more.

Let’s have a look at the new modules

AMP extension for Magento 2 is a very hot solution. Our clients asked a lot of questions on how to get Google Accelerated Mobile Pages for Magento 2? Now you have a ready-to-use AMP module that will help you to:

  • customize Google AMP pages in Magento 2
  • implement AMP pages for Magento 2 homepage, category page, product page, product comparison page, search results and CMS pages

  • create responsive images
  • make your website get a high rank in Google  
  • improve your store performance for mobile users.

How to improve Magento 2 page speed? This issue is more timely than ever and the success of your website performance depends on solving it. Magento 2 Page Speed module was released to help you reduce page loading time. The module comes with 8 tricks that will improve your website speed:

  • catalog images optimization
  • lazy image loading
  • ability to minify HTML, CSS, JS
  • DNS-prefetch link activation
  • adding Expires Headers
  • using gzip compression test
  • generating critical CSS

We suggest you to read an informative post with tips on how to use speed optimization tool.

Read the recent news about Argento theme

Argento template positively impresses. In the last month your favorite Magento responsive theme got the new modules as well as numerous enhancements.

Argento 1.5 for Magento 2

If you use Argento template for highlighting Magento 2 benefits, please focus on new modules and nice features described in a post about it. We bet you will see different approaches that will help you to support SEO the best. You will also see what has been done in order to create more attractive pages in your Magento 2 store.  

Argento 1.11.0 for Magento

If you are interested in the improvements for Argento template in Magento store, please see below for details.

  • The new option allows using sticky either product image and product details block on the product page. The feature improves the usability of a product page that impacts an entire user experience in your store.
  • Another feature helps to change a product image layout at the product page. You can have the default (old-school) layout or fancy mobile-friendly slider.

Among the updates for Argento Magento modules you can see:

AMP

  • Update deprecated mustache library to the version 0.2.

GDPR:

  • Improved compatibility with old PHP versions.
  • Added missing translations.

Lightbox Pro:

  • New option for product page image. You can select between the default layout with thumbnails and slider with all images.
  • Overall code improvements.

And now for the enhancements in modules

When it comes to Magento 2 modules, we released the following:

Navigation Pro 1.6 release brings small CSS fixes and new menu styles:

You can read more about benefits in a post 4 new types of modern navigation menus. Showcase intuitive mobile navigation.

See also how the Iconic Dropdown Menu looks.

SEO Suite 1.0.0 

In short guide to effective SEO practices, we highlighted the advantages of Magento 2 SEO module. You can also see what else has been done in order to improve SEO Suite extension.

We added the new XML Sitemap module to the SEO Suite toolkit. The module provides improved experience and advanced options for Magento Sitemap generation. It sorts sitemap links according to their priority, adds images to category links and supports regional and language URLs (hreflang).

HTML Sitemap module has got the following changes:

  • Rename backend menu item ‘HTML Sitemap Links’ => ‘Sitemap Links’.
  • Fix PHP fatal error in custom links grid when Magento Admin session expired.

In the Metadata Templates module we fixed error during setup:di: compile.

The Regional URLs (hreflang) module improvements are:

  • New option to add hreflang links into XML Sitemap.
  • New option to exclude store view from href links.
  • Improved store URL resolving.
  • Fixed compatibility with Magento 2.1.x.

The Rich Snippets module provides a fallback for full description of the product in snippet when a short description is empty.

SEO Pagination module now removes a canonical URL correctly (the previous version removes all links equal to canonical in document head).

SEO URLs has got an improved integration with “Regional URLs”.

Ajax Pro 1.3.1-1.3.2 includes the following updates:

  • Fix js error 'Cannot read property 'backUrl' of null'
  • Fix redundant reload Ajax Pro sections after page refresh .reload([])
  • Add eval native <script>
  • Fix modal z-index for 2.2.6
  • Add patch for .price-box bug configurable.js mixin
  • Fix lost js lib bug _
  • Fix ESlint and JSCS warnings
  • Fix radio disabled bug was patched
  • Remove floating.cart at checkout pages.

Magento modules updates

Helpdesk 1.7.7 has got added Materialize design to tickets view as well as fixed line breaks bug on the frontend.

AMP 1.6.4 module includes the deprecated mustache library updated to the version 0.2.

Mobile Start theme 1.4.6

In the new release we fixed possible js errors at home and product pages:

  • In case if navigation is not added at the homepage
  • In case if a product does not have any images in the gallery

We also updated the following submodules: Core, Easy Slider, Products Highlight.

Page Speed 1.3.3 release includes small bug fixes and updated tm/defer-css.

You see we keep sharing new products and ideas with you. Can you share your experience of using them?

We'd appreciate your comments.

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