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Updates for your site are more important than you think. Their purpose is to arm your site with the latest options in security, performance, accessibility. Here in the post we will show you the updates made in September 2022. Get more info about changes in 20 Magento 2 modules.
Updates for Breeze frontend
You can't change the direction of a breeze. And you can still change the speed of your store with - Breeze. You’ve heard a lot of this super fast Magento 2 frontend, perhaps. We keep getting nice reviews from clients who have chosen Breeze themes for websites. Its fame extends, so our Magento 2 partners integrate their modules to maximize the potential of our product. This all aims to help you get a faster store and produce good results in the Magento ecommerce space.
By the way the Breeze frontend integration is easy. See how it can be done in practice.
In September we updated Breeze to the next versions - Breeze 1.13.10, 1.14.0, 1.14.1, 1.14.2, 1.14.3, 1.14.4, and Breeze Blank 1.2.1. See some improvements here:
- Added support for inline scripts. This allows reusing Luma-based templates with simple inline scripts.
- Improved ability to reuse Luma-based files in Breeze frontend. This feature is super useful for third-party module developers.
- Added font-family variables to easily customize font in block titles, buttons, or the whole site.
Updates for Magento 2 extensions
- Magento 2.4.5 compatibility.
- Breeze compatibility
- Multiply bugfixes
- NEW tab option “Update tab content on storefront”. This option can be useful for configurable products. Once configurable product options are selected Magento updates the tab content with content from the respective child product.
- “Cross Sell products” tab - allow specifying number of products to show.
- Improve compatibility with PHP 8.1.
- Module widget interface update: replace multiselect with tabs for UI select; allow to set initially open tab when tabs layout is “accordion”.
- NEW tabs layout “Expanded with sticky titles”. It is similar to well known “Expanded” layout but titles are moved to the top and stuck there while the user scrolls via tabs content.
Among general improvements you can see the compatibility with Magento 2.4.5 and feature fixes for PHP 8.1 as well as minor performance updates. Now let’s look at the changes for some modules included in the SEO Suite set.
swissup/module-hreflang — 1.5.1 (was 1.4.11)
- NEW: set hreflang link for CMS page in Magento Admin.
- Correct hrefalang data for attribute page on the storefront
- Fixes for XML sitemap: exclude links for store views where the product is disabled; remove store code in hreflang once respective option enabled; add hreflang data for Highlight Pages and Attribute Pages.
swissup/module-rich-snippets — 1.4.20 (was 1.4.18)
- Fix error - Argument 1 passed… must be of the type array, null given. Occurs when store migrated from Magento 1.
swissup/module-seo-canonical — 1.11.6 (was 1.11.5)
- Fix missing caninical URL at attribute pages.
swissup/module-seo-cross-links — 1.1.7 (was 1.1.6)
- NEW: link Tooltip.
- Fix possible issue of using ampersand and slash symbols in a keyword. Notice added.
- swissup/module-seo-xml-sitemap — 1.1.12 (was 1.1.11)
- Remove hard-coded dependency with SeoHtmlSitemap module. Now you can disable module Swissup_SeoHtmlSitemap without harm to XML Sitemap.
- Added ability to filter by category and all of its children using the plus sign. Example: ‘4, 3+’ will filter by category 4, 3, and all of the children of category 3.
- Add a canonical tag to highlight pages (when it is at category enabled).
- Fixed inactive buttons after ajax load.
- Fixed js error when SKU has double quotes.
- Fixed missing Compare and Wishlist links when using the core list.phtml template.
- Fixed incorrect conditions when multiple blocks added on the same page.
- Fixed invisible “Load more” button on mobile devices.
- Improved breeze integration.
- Reduce copy-paste in source code.
Ajax Pro 1.6.10, 1.6.11, 1.6.12
- Remove empty space below the footer when the floating cart is enabled.
- Update messageManager deprecated functionality.
- Update composer requirements >= 2.3.5.
- Multiple fixes.
Taxvat 1.4.2 comes with the added missing icons for checkout modules.
- Fix PHP 8.1 issues.
- Added helper method to get all entity attributes.
- Added code to fix wrong attributes values in Magento 2.4.
Pagepseed 1.5.12, 1.5.11, 1.5.13
- Update advanced js bundling configuration (Magento 2.4.5).
- Add pagebuilder integration (data-background-images).
- Remove all occurrences of sourceMappingURL and sourceURL when JS files are aggregated.
Easy banner 1.9.0 brings the added ability to show banner when cart items match selected products attribute conditions.
Cache warmer 1.0.21, 1.0.22, 1.0.23 brings the added Fastly CDN integration (in toolbar).
Email 0.5.4 allows custom host name to be given in EHLO/HELO statement.
Akismet 1.2.8 comes with the updated composer requirements.
Ajax Layared Navigation 1.3.60
- Performance improvements when using price filter.
- Added Breeze integration with a “Load More” button and infinity scroll.
- Hide the “Load More” button when the last page is loaded.
- Added cache identity for correct cache invalidating.
- Replace deprecated dependency Magento\Backend\Helper\Data.
- Remove duplicated code.
- Replace registry with custom service.
- Remove unused coreRegistry calls.
- Checkout recaptcha - improve error-processor-mixin stability.
- Checkout recaptcha validator - scroll to error when occured.
- Checkout improve suppress server message for Mageplaza_Osc.
- Checkout - surpress validation error when validation isn't triggered by place order action.
The following Magento 2 modules were updated with minor fixes: Legacy Mysql Search 1.1.4, Checkout Success 2.0.2, Knoweledge base 1.1.9, 1.1.10.
Today's post paragraphs have shown you all the updates released in September 2022. The e-commerce market is expanding at a rapid pace, so new website features are more relevant than ever. Use them and get results as your store's popularity and repeated customers.
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