Help your Magento website grow up with monthly update
Starting today, we begin writing monthly update posts. Each of our post will be about new releases, key highlights in SwissUpLabs development process and important changes in Magento on the whole. Our monthly news can actually make easier the management process for your website. Do you agree? Just follow up...
So, what’s for today?
Magento 1 updates
Talking about our module upgrades we keep improving the overall functionality. See what’s available now:
- Abandoned Cart 1.2.0 comes with 'All' option added like a rule in shop carts grid actions. You can also see a few other changes in Shop Cart grids.
- Easy colors swatches 2.1.1 supports an integration with Advanced Custom Options extension from Mageworx now. The Product Swatches save logic was rewritten.
- Product videos 1.1.1 provides you with a lot of useful fixes. Moreover you can see the added Cache compatibility and the compatibility with Magic Zoom extension from Magic Tool Box.
- Ajax Search 1.5.3 comes with improved compatibility with Ajax Layered Navigation and Ajaxpro extensions as well as added Add Store Code to Urls compatibility.
- Ask It 2.2 offers you to use added customer My Questions interface and improved block templates structure. The product preview was added on product questions page.
That’s not all…
We are happy to announce the initial release of two must-have modules Bot Blocker 1.0.1 and Google reCaptcha. Hope, the extensions will help you to protect your Magento store. We continue to work on compatibility updates. Expect them to be available within one week.
Here’s a deal for Magento 2
Hope, you’ve already known what happened with the best Magento one step checkout extension ever. Firecheckout 1.0 beta for Magento 2 is ready! If not yet, you can find out more reading our previous post.
And other exciting news…
Everybody knows the Magento has released a new version 2.1. What can be better than new updates aiming to improve the overall website performance. Lucky that Magento developers are open to share with us helpful features, fixes and security enhancements.
Current release comes with approximately 450 changes which ensure better user experience both for customers and development companies. Magento 2.1 covers the fixed issues in the following spaces:
- installation
- search, shopping and checkout processes
- product configuration
- admin area customization
- PHP, JavaScript
- testing and integration
Let’s look at basic highlights for the Magento Community Edition 2.1.0.
- With new release customers have got improved PayPal checkout experience. Now users can make a second purchase without re-entering data from their credit card and leaving merchant’s websites. This is powered by included PayPal in-context checkout in Magento 2.1 version.
- In order to make Braintree online payments as user-friendly as possible Magento merchants can use the implemented Braintree Hosted Fields for entering credit card numbers. On other words the Magento 2.1 release allows you to satisfy with the minimal set of PCI compliance requirements.
- With new release you've got simplified admin interface. Now it is much easier to search
the information and to create either new product or any other CMS content.
How can you actually use this through our modules?
When it comes to extension compatibility with Magento 2.1 version, we came with well-timed updates. Now you have the accomplished Magento tools for the best store performance.
All the following modules work fine with the Magento 2.1 release:
- Sold together 1.1.3
- Easy banners 1.0.7
- Prolabels 1.0.7
- Review reminder 1.0.5
- Testimonials 1.0.4
- Easy Catalog images 1.0.5
- East tabs 1.0.2
- Ajax Search 1.1
- Attributes and Brands pages 1.0.3
What about Magento 2 themes?
Everybody’s favorite Argento and Free Absolute templates are also compatible with Magento 2.1 release now. With Argento 0.9.1 or Free Absolute theme 1.1 your website will be stand out from competitors. We bet, these templates will always come along with changing e-commerce trends.
Today we have been discussing with you new updates. Hope you are getting better with each new release features. After all there are really a lot of enhancements you can implement every day.
If you have any idea for future monthly updates, your comments would be appreciated. Let’s keep in touch!
