How do you like to see your website? With an easy-to-use experience for your visitors? Or maybe with customer reviews about fast-loafing pages. Either option is acceptable if you use new improvements for your site we come up with every month.
So, here is another important report with monthly updates for Magento 2 modules and themes. With this monthly release, you receive feedback on our work in June 2023. You will see the new features, fixes, and enhancements we added to improve the overall functionality of your e-commerce store. Read the post to see the details.
Updates for the Argento template
Argento 1.39 release got the new module to the theme’s package - ChatGPT Assistant. In this article, we will know more about this powerful extension. It will be in the section Updates for Magento 2 modules. Still, now, you can see ChatGPT Assistant as a part of the Argento theme. What does it mean? And this means that you can offer a more personalized and engaging user experience on your Argento-based store. Enjoy the convenience of AI-assisted generating product descriptions and meta tags for your store pages.
The next updates improve the overall functionality of your website:
- FishPig WordPress integration update: show large images in the posts list
- Fixed sticky layered navigation width bug
- Added ability to disable Magento compare feature with Swissup\Compare module
- Added missing alt for a photo in the description image
- Updated ARIA attributes for navigation sidebar on mobile
- Fixed accessibility error: button missing an accessible name
- Improved scroll into view for collapsible: fixed accordion jumping on Safari
- Fixed accessibility error in social icons in the footer
- Improved styles for EasyTabs
- Argento Home: Fixed overlapped “Forgot password” link in the login popup
- Argento Stripes: Fixed poorly looking sticky add to cart
- Argento Marketplace: Improved Paypal Express form styles
The following Argento modules were updated with the new versions: Ajax Pro — 1.6.23 (was 1.6.21), Ajax Search — 1.13.10 (was 1.13.6), Attribute Pages — 1.6.1 (was 1.5.3), Breeze — 2.7.3 (was 2.5.5), Compare — 1.2.1 (was 1.1.3), Easybanners — 1.9.8 (was 1.9.7), Easytabs — 1.12.0 (was 1.11.5), GDPR — 1.5.15 (was 1.5.13), Highlight — 1.8.7 (was 1.8.6), Navigation Pro — 1.17.0 (was 1.16.19), ProLabels — 1.7.1 (was 1.6.25), Quantity Switcher — 1.1.18 (was 1.1.17), Review Reminder — 1.1.14 (was 1.1.13), Sold Together — 1.9.8 (was 1.9.6), Testimonials — 1.3.8 (was 1.3.6), and SEO Suite swissup/module-hreflang — 1.5.9 (was 1.5.7), swissup/module-rich-snippets — 1.6.2 (was 1.5.5), swissup/module-seo-urls — 1.5.42 (was 1.5.40), swissup/module-seo-pager — 1.3.2 (was 1.2.11), swissup/module-seo-templates — 1.7.3 (was 1.6.5).
Updates for Breeze frontend
In June 2023 we did a lot for Breeze - the fastest Magento 2 frontend.
See the improvements from Breeze Blank 2.5.0, 2.5.2, Breeze Evolution 2.1.3, Breeze 2.7.0, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.7.3 versions:
- Added ability to drag slider with the mouse.
- Added focus state style for input fields in BreezeEvolution theme.
- Improved print order styles.
- Improve MSRP styles when the price is hidden until checkout.
- Added compatibility with custom checkout field styles.
- Improved message styles inside the modal.
- Added .nested-counter helper to create nested ordered lists.
- Various improvements to prices styles: Fixed Product Tax style, Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price output and Complex Tier Price output.
- Auth popup added with Captcha, reCaptcha, Swissup_ReCaptcha, and Swissup_SocialLogin modules support.
- Improved layout processing logic: prevent initializing of disabled components.
- Improved integration of Luma-based code: Object-based component, Function-based component, Utility function.
Implemented bug fixes:
- Fixed the “Cannot apply bindings” error when scripts moved to the bottom.
- Fixed possible incorrect products price when using Wageworx_AdvancedProductOptions.
- Fixed automatic print dialog appearance on all print pages.
- Fixed incorrect component.destroy logic that prevented initializing the component once again.
- Fixed inability to collapse accordion item when all items were initially active.
- Fixed the “Cannot apply bindings” error when scripts moved to the bottom.
- Fixed possible incorrect products price when using Wageworx_AdvancedProductOptions.
- Fixed not working “Clear Shopping Cart” button on the “Shopping Cart” page.
- Fixed Zip/Email switcher on the “Orders and Returns” page.
- Fixed ability to set initially focused element inside the modal popup.
- Fixed possible js errors in the browser console when navigating using back and forward buttons.
- Fixed ability to create js components with more than one inheritance level.
- JS fixes at checkout/cart/configure page.
- Minor form styles fixes.
Updates for Magento 2 extensions
We’d like to start with the main news for our Magento 2 modules collection. To help you quickly get the generated data you need we released the new product.
Introducing the ChatGPT Assistant module
ChatGPT Assistant extension joined the great list of extensions by SwissUpLabs.
That's good news for store owners who strive to improve customer experience and increase the efficiency of the workflow. The Magento 2 ChatGPT integration helps you to automate various tasks such as creating the product description or generating meta tags for your store pages.
In the post Here is the new M2 Chat GPT extension we have shed light on what is ChatGPT in E-Commerce. We tried to answer this question to help you figure out the benefits of using the module in your daily website management. To see the list of added features in the initial release, visit the ChatGPT Assistant module page.
Improvements for 9 Magento 2 modules
Recaptcha 1.4.8, 1.4.9 got the updated integration with Amazon Pay at checkout.
- Added ability to render dropdown items in alphabetical order
- Added ability to duplicate existing menu
swissup/module-hreflang — 1.5.8 (was 1.5.6)
- Show all available store views for the “Default store” option in Magento Admin Configuration on the store view level.
- Fixed class “Zend_Uri” not found in Magento 2.4.6.
swissup/module-rich-snippets — 1.6.1 (was 1.5.4)
- Product structured data. Provide correct data for grouped products.
- Add support of Google merchant listing fields: “shippingDetails” and “hasMerchantReturnPolicy”. Added dedicated subsections in the “Product structured data” section in module settings in Stores Configuration.
- The reorganized section “Product structured data” to be more intuitive.
swissup/module-seo-images — 1.3.18 (was 1.3.17)
- Add DB index for field target_file to speed up queries.
swissup/module-seo-pager — 1.3.0 (was 1.2.11)
- Implement Google recommendations for paginated product listings with a new strategy “Canonical URL to each page (Google way)”. More details you can find in module docs.
swissup/module-seo-templates — 1.7.3 (was 1.6.5)
- Allow to use translations in metadata templates. More details at module docs.
- New condition for category templates - “Layered Navigation / Applied filter”.
swissup/module-seo-urls — 1.5.41 (was 1.5.40)
- Improve compatibility with Swissup Ajaxlayerednavigation module and SEO Urls setting “Use direct URL to subcategory”.
- Improvements for the shipping details section in product structured data.
- Fixed exception “Product that you are trying to add is not available”. Occurs when a product is not for sale but the module tries to build shipping details for it.
- Pagebuilder added to backend description and short_description fields.
- Added ability to set different H1 and meta title attributes.
- Fixed incorrect page title when the page is overridden for store view.
- Fixed missing system “In Stock” label. The label didn’t show up even when it was enabled and properly set up.
- Updated integration with Breeze-powered front end. Use the same JS for Luma and Breeze.
- Fixes to improve the Accessibility score on the product page.
- Updated integration with Breeze-powered storefront.
- Accessibility update. Remaster collapsible tabs template to meet accessibility requirements (role and aria naming) for the content presented in tabs. Since this release collapsible tabs remain the same both for desktop and mobile screens (previously they become accordion on mobile). If you want to have old behavior then there is a respective tabs layout (but it doesn’t meet accessibility reqs).
- Updated integration with Breeze-powered front end. Same JS files for Luma and Breeze. Requires latest Breeze extension.
- A few LESS variables were added to simplify customization.
- Added email validation in the admin form.
- Added email validation in graphQL Resolver.
Well, you've seen the list of added updates in June 2023. We included more detailed information about changes on each module page or theme page.
Our team at SwissUpLabs is constantly working to deliver advanced features for your Magento 2 websites. We hope the new improvements will help you get the most out of your e-commerce.
Use the latest updates to your advantage and please share your though with us. We appreciate your feedback.
