What will you accomplish this year? What powerful tools are you going to use to boost the success rate? We bet you're probably asking yourselves.
In e-commerce business, it's important to have goals, and the new year brings the perfect opportunity to figure out what these should be.
In case your goal to get more sales leads through improving your website's performance, then come to us.
Today we'd like to share with you the list of the recent updates for Magento/ Magento 2 module and Argento theme. They definitely have a big impact on SEO, content performance, user engagement, and sales.
Plan your goals witn new Magento 2 extensions
Lightbox Pro
Good product preview leads user engagement. Larger product images have an impact on sales and revenue. That truth was the inspiration for developing Lightbox Pro for Magento 2 module.
In addition to the default Magento 2 zoom, you can highlight the product details via attractive lightbox window. You can choose from 3 different layout types of lightbox popup: the default Magento 2 fullscreen popup, advanced lightbox popup and a simple popup layout.
Among other cool features, you can see Magento 2 product gallery widget, zoom lens, configurable size of main product image as well as product thumbnail.
Try out the new extension as a way to increase revenue using images on your web pages.
SEO Suite
Understanding how people are getting to your website and how long they're spending there are the important challenge for everyone. Well, there are always SEO tasks.
The beta version SEO Suite module is a part of only Argento theme, but it's temporary. What important is it's a toolkit of 3 modules: Rich Snippets, SEO HTML sitemap, SEO-friendly URLs.
Focus your attention on this module if you want to:
- create HTML sitemap with a list of stores, categories, products, CMS pages and custom links,
- help users see the additional information about your store directly on Google search page,
- enable the breadcrumbs trail display in rich snippets,
- build SEO friendly links for filters in layered navigation on category pages and on catalog search page,
- optimize your Magento 2 store for search engines.
A maximum of site goals are supported by Argento theme
What's the main secret of successful user experience on your website? Choose your own priority:
- a convenient way to view the product images
- a search of products in every possible way,
- quick ajax functionality,
- other valuable functions.
Argento users do not need to pick. They only have to use the latest updates for Argento modules to make sure the website performance keeps being improved step by step.
We have put all the information in a previous post. So, a quick review now:
Magento Magento 1.9.5 release
- New config sections ‘Category page and other listing pages’ and ‘Product page’.
- Google fonts with javascript library web font loader.
- Source code improvements.
- Reduced number of templates.
- 12 updates in Magento modules.
Magento 2 Argento 1.1.0 release
- New Lightbox Pro module
- SEO Suite extension that includes the following modules HTML Sitemap, Rich Snippets, SEO-friendly URLs.
- Luxury theme enhancements
- 24 updates in Magento 2 extensions.
Module updates should be implemented on your website regularly. You want to help customers satisfy a purchase goal, don't you?
The updates for Magento modules
- Fixed page caching when utm_ and other tracking parameters are found in URLs.
- Code cleanup.
- Added ability to disable layered navigation output via configuration.
- Fixed validation error when “Cookie restriction” mode is enabled.
- Fixed possible “Content mismatch” error when using third-party layered navigation modules.
- Mana_Seo compatibility added.
- Added new option to reindex orders with specific statuses only.
- Fixed JavaScript error at some environments “groupSymbol is undefined”.
- A fixed crash of cron reindexes on the huge number of orders (10K+).
- Fixed Ultimo integration.
- Include calendar CSS with media="all" param on the homepage.
- XML Sitemap - prevent memory leak during sitemap generation.
SMTP Email 1.1.6 comes with source code improvements.
ProLabels 2.7.13 includes a new position for a label - ‘hidden’. With this position, you can hide label on product page or category page.
- Fixed empty setLocation method, when ajaxpro is used. It caused issues with add to cart functionality on the homepage.
- Remove hardcoded TM Amp dependency.
- Scroll to “Review form” itself instead of a top of Review section when a visitor clicks “Add review” link on the product page.
- Remove empty space from tabs.
- Fixed ‘reached 100 match iterations’ when URL end with /.
- Fixed customer email template in a nl_NL locale.
The updates for Magento 2 modules
Navigation Pro 1.1.0 has distinguished itself in recent month through many changes and improvements. See what you can use:
- Sidebar menu with plenty of configurable options.
- Navigation Pro widget with themes support.
- Amazon-like sidebar menu.
- Mobile view will always use single column mode.
- Fixed too small dropdown width and height on mobile devices.
- Fixed PHP error when switching store view in backend interface.
- Improved dropdown positioning calculations.
- Fixed CSS issues with category tips.
- Javascript code optimizations.
Ajax Layered Navigation 1.1.0 is Magento 2 layered navigation extension with greatest features.
If you think that layered navigation is a simple block of filters that usually appears in the left column of search results and category pages, you are mistaken. Let's draw something from the experience of famous brand sites. Enjoy "What makes a successful user experience? Layered navigation tricks from 10 advanced company on earth" article. There is something to see.
The improvements made in December 2017 are:
- Added sticky layered navigation.
- Added stock filter (In Stock, Out of Stock).
- Added New filter.
- Added On Sale filter.
- Fixed layered navigation in one column layout.
- Added default exploded filters of an option.
- Added slideout filters sidebar.
- Added round style for color options.
- Added search options by name.
- Improved code style.
M2 Banners and custom blocks 1.1.0
- Fixed SQL error '1205 Lock wait timeout exceeded'.
- Reduced number of database operations.
- Fixed not unique form element ids.
- Minor code improvements.
- Fixed too wide input field.
- Fixed js error, when no shipping methods are available.
- Move extension config to ‘Swissup SEO’ section.
- Respect store level values of extension configuration.
- Improve Magento 2.2 compatibility.
- Small bugfixes.
Ajax Search and Autocomplete 1.2.6
- Now product page is opened when click or press enter on the element in popup.
- Added missing close button and spinner in folded mode.
- Removed mistakenly added cacheable=’false’ param, which disabled FPC.
- Fixed error CollectionFactory already in use.
- Fixed search form submit only after the second tap on mobile keyboard.
That's all
Do you want increased success for your e-commerce business in the coming year? You see you can use different tactics that will complement each other.
We'll be right here, okay?
