Quick guide: Argento December update

Quick guide: Argento December updates

It's not enough to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow.” - David Ben-Gurion.

Once installed Argento theme in your store, you get released updates each month. By following new changes you can create an amazing well functioning website where a user can easily satisfy his needs. Argento is available today, tomorrow, ever.  

So, what’s new in 1.8.4 release?

In December we are launching the one of the great change for the usability. This is Quantity Switcher module. It allows you:

  • add a +/- button to the product pages.
  • add a +/- button to the listing pages.

Now your customers can easily change the products quantity before adding to the shopping cart.

There’s nothing better than building awesome and responsive website with Bootstrap grid system. That’s why Argento team is glad to keep you happy with:

  • new Bootstrap homepage for Argento Pure2 design
  • new Bootstrap footer markup for Argento Pure2 design

Why not to enhance a user experience with new feature for Argento Mall and Pure designs. As you know, the hovering effect is very significant when it comes about website styling and usability. Therefore the Argento 1.8.4. release brings you the following changes in product grid design:

  • Compare and wishlist buttons redesign
  • The display of the Add to cart button, Wishlist and Compare icons on hover.

What about fixes and improvements for the best Magento responsive theme?

  • Minor translation fixes
  • 20 overridden templates were removed
  • Testimonials integration was improved
  • Visual accent was added to downloadable product link
  • Backend css was merged with rest of CSS files

Argento theme is build with 18 Magento extensions. Sounds impressive, doesn’t it? Updating modules is important process if you want to make the best of site performance.

We’d like to share some changes for Argento modules.

Ajax Pro has got:

  • added +/- buttons for product quantity change on product page
  • improved magento 1.9.3 integration

Easy Banners:

  • added columns “Store view”, “Banner content” in banner backend grid to make easier banners management
  • fixed grid search in banned conditions for pages (issue occurs on latest magento versions)
  • fixed redirect issue for SEO url (.html)

Navigation Pro comes with fixed incorrectly escaped entities.

Product Labels release includes minor improvements for labels rendering.

Rich Snippets has got a possibility to show prices with/without VAT (prices with VAT enabled by default).

Review Reminder release brings:

  • fixed incorrect product name translation
  • added config to disable reminders for guests
  • added order number and store view columns in grid

Sold Together has got fixed error 404 in config and CSS fixes

Testimonials module:

  • sidebar list widget was rewritten
  • the feature to save product review as testimonial from review edit page was added
  • missing captcha in testimonials widget was fixed
  • a config to allow guests to submit testimonials was added

Even the simplest changes to the template can make a huge difference to the website functionality. The choice is yours. But if you decide to update, you get an advantage in boosting your ecommerce success.

Keep in touch for regular updates.

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