It's been a hard month in terms of creating effective solutions for Magento, so why not feel better with this list of 50+ pieces of good news, sourced from SwissUpLabs?
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All right, down to business.
New extension release
Navigate with Navigation Pro! It’s a call for a new highest level in navigation around your Magento 2 website.
Navigation Pro module for Magento 2 presents the highlights:
- Adding Simple Dropdown menu, Mega menu, Amazon menu, Stacked menu and Iconic menu to your Magento 2 store.
- Improving the standard subcategories block with attractive images.
- Designing custom navigation menu.
- Providing you with a quick way to customize menu styles.
- Creating mobile-friendly navigation for Magento 2.
Are you impressed? Our team feels the same. We love this module and want you to feel it too. Try it out to deliver the outstanding user experience in your store.
Argento news
Argento 1.9.4 for Magento 1 comes with the following fixes and improvements:
- Fixed scrollbar in IE when Hover Gallery enabled.
- Fixed invisible images in Luxury theme in “More Views” section when the lazy-load module is used.
- Fixed product page slider animation on RTL theme and fixed bug when a user can’t read error message after adding a product to the cartAMP for Magento Accelerated mobile pages module.
- Fixed possible js errors in Easy Slider extension.
- Significant code cleanup and code improvement in Magento Product Labels module.
- Added check if the guest is allowed to write a review through the Testimonials extension.
- Stability improvements in Ajax Pro, Askit, Lightbox Pro modules.
Argento 1.0 release for Magento 2 keeps providing you with options which will help you to increase the overall conversion. Among them you can see:
- Added the Navigation Pro module.
- We improved a CSS editor in theme editor backend. The CSS syntax highlight was added.
- The Luxury design comes with improved Navigation Pro compatibility and improved product quantity styles in header cart. Too long language switcher was fixed.
- The updates for Ajax Search and Autocomplete, Product Questions, Easy Catalog Images, Product Labels, and Review Reminder modules.
Security update for Magento help desk extension
We'd like to grab your attention with a security issue in the Helpmate module. we detected a security threat in the Helpmate 1.6.8 - 1.7.1. The source of the problem was a reflected XSS attack. It can cause the stealing of the customers' credit card information that is truly dangerous for your trust-worthy websites.
In case you missed our post, we advise you to heed that warning.
We realize our responsibility. That's why we offer:
- Free updates for the Helpmate extension if your support period is over. Just open a ticket and request a free update.
- The latest secure Helpmate release. Please login to your account and download that.
Good news about Magento modules
Updates for Magento 1.x
- Fixed possible error during address validation for registered customers.
- LaPoste_Colissimo integration.
- Webtex_Giftcards integration improvements (Card section moved inside existing discount block).
- Dhl_LocationFinder integration added.
- Amasty_StoreCredit integration added.
- OPG_Square integration added.
- Conekta_Card integration added.
- Updated integration with OnePica_AvaTax module.
- Fixed js error when Paypal Plus is the only method available.
- Code refactoring and stability improvements.
- Fixed js error at the one-column layout.
- Improved compatibility with third-party themes.
- Fixed ajax requests loop in IE11 when Fooman_Surcharge module is available.
- Address Autocomplete updated to 1.1.4.
- Checkout Success updated to 2.0.6.
Page Speed 1.2.10 improvements are:
- Add DNS-prefetch feature.
- Add auto specify image dimensions.
- Add TinyPng service image compress.
- Fix Google Pagespeed Insight.
- Add text/lazy load-javascript for inline js (defer-js).
- Generate critical CSS for each page (defer-CSS).
- Add self critical CSS api service (defer-CSS).
reCaptcha 1.1.0 comes with new invisible reCAPTCHA support.
- Fixed possible js errors.
- Fixed styles on TM_Amp theme when RTL is used.
- Security improvements.
Lightbox Pro 1.2.5 has got the added error message handling when image wasn’t uploaded via widget form.
- Fixed block class type fatal error (getAddToCartUrl helper method).
- Removed duplicate code.
- Escape quotes in label's title.
- Prevent label wrapper from stretching out of parent container.
- Significant code cleanup and code improvement.
- Prevent new lines in nested elements, when modifying DOM structure.
- Escape closing tags in inline js when parsing HTML.
- Do not save parsed HTML if nothing was changed.
- Fix Warning: Missing argument 1 for _redrect().
- PHP code cleanup to pass MEQP validation.
- Fix to sort by IP in admin grids.
- Improve compatibility with third-party extensions - Firebear_CloudFlare.
Daily Deals 1.1.5 doesn’t output empty deal timer wrapper when there is no timer.
Google Address Autocomplete 1.1.4:
- UK address autocomplete improvement. Fixed missing town field.
- Added IWD Onepage Checkout integration.
- Added AW Onestepcheckout integration.
- Code refactoring and cleanup.
- Added compatibility with mage world one step checkout.
- Minor style fixes for quick registration.
- PHP code cleanup to pass MEQP validation.
- Fixed product page slider animation on RTL theme.
- Fixed bug when user can’t read error message after adding product to the cart.
- Attribute “checked/” is not allowed error fixed.
Testimonials 1.2.3 has got the added check if a guest is allowed to write a review.
- Removed code duplication.
- Fixed XSS vulnerability.
- Fixed empty letter bug (change status).
- Improved MEQP.
Updates for Magento 2.x
During last month, many good things were focused upon Magento 2 One Step Checkout extension. Please review new release fully described in the article about FireCheckout 1.7 release.
Let us briefly mention the latest updates:
- Updated default form styles, new configurable form styles added.
- Brand new layout builder and page preview in CheckoutSuccess module.
- SubscribeAtCheckout module added.
- Added ability to redirect to Firecheckout page after Add to Cart action.
- Improved third-party payment methods compatibility.
- Magento 2.2.0 compatibility improvements.
- The updates for the modules coming in the FireCheckout package such as Address Autocomplete — 1.0.4, Address Field Manager — 1.0.2, Checkout Fields — 1.0.3, Checkout Success — 1.1.0, Order Attachments — 1.1.0, Subscribe at Checkout — 1.0.0, Checkout Vat — 1.0.3.
Easy Catalog Images 1.1.4 and Image slider 3.0.9 have got Magento 2.2.0 compatibility.
- Showing order id and store view in grid and form.
- Using store id from the order when getting config and sending the email.
- Fixed ambiguous status field error.
- Mass actions rewrote to remove code duplication.
- Fixed wrong product URL on multiple websites installation.
- Magento email preview error fixed.
Address Fields Manager 1.0.2 module comes with improved module stability and improved address renderer when some fields are optional.
- Code duplicate cleanup (phpcpd).
- Fix gravatar proto.
- Add new answer action.
- Fix listing collection logic.
- Show message for guest users that they should log in.
- Improve customer account questions page.
- Add js forms validation.
Address Autocomplete 1.0.4 comes with improved logic for UK addresses. Fixed missing town field.
Ajax Search and Autocomplete 1.2.5:
- Improved initialisation.
- Fixed problem when keyboard got closed on iPhone.
- Fixed final_price bug.
- Added unit test example.
- Added self-search layer model.
- Increased search request accuracy.
- Fixed collection load bug (replace loadWithFilter at load).
- Fixed go to search page on entering on folded design.
- Fixed js code style.
- Removed duplicate code.
- Moved get config option logic to helper data.
- Fallback for minQueryLength in init template.
Checkout Vat 1.0.3 module allows entering the Vat number with country code now.
- Brand new backend drag-and-drop layout builder with much more possibilities to customize checkout success page.
- Page preview functionality added.
Product tabs 1.2.1 has got a widget feature. It allows adding tabs at any page.
- Code cleanup.
- Style improvements.
- Fixed possible error when product is not found in registry.
Slick carousel 1.1.1 has got a fixed issue with Porto theme.
Product labels 1.0.19 has got Code cleanup and stability improvements.
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