We hope you all had an enjoyable summer. As we enter September, we'd like to share our success at work on the best Magento 2 extensions and themes.
In August we did a lot to enhance the functionality of your Magento 2 site. With the latest updates made in August 2019, we offer you new layouts of a search box, mass edit popup for easier managing complex navigation menu, improvements for editing extra fields on the checkout page.
Read more about these upgrades and new fantastic Argento design.
What’s on Argento?
New Argento Force design
You mustn't miss the chance. The chance to start using the new Force design in your store. Since August 2019 you can surprise your customers with all the benefits of Argento Force theme.
Follow the blog article to see how we describe the template feature by feature.
Argento 1.13 - 1.13.1 release
We focus your attention on 2 new features that drive the user directly to the purchase decision.
- Creating sticky ‘Add to Cart’ panel on the product page
- Adding large product photo to the product description on the product page
With 1.13.0. release you also get a lot of CSS improvements for all existing themes, improved search results dropdown styles, and the added “Recently viewed products” carousel to the bottom of category pages.
Argento 1.3.1 release brings the improved layered navigation styles when using 1 column layout and some fixes for ‘select all/unselect all’ labels in dropdown elements on a product page when a product has related items.
Magento 2 Argento extension updates
- Ajax Pro 1.4.10
- AMP 1.3.5
- Product Questions 1.6.1
- Image Slider 1.4.0
- Easy Catalog Images 1.4.4
- Product Tabs 1.7.0
- Hover Gallery 1.2.1
- Regional and Language URLs 1.3.0
- Lightbox Pro 1.2.4
- Prolabels 1.3.5
- Quantity Switcher 1.1.1
- SEO HTML Sitemap 1.1.3
- SEO URLs 1.5.4
- Sold Together 1.6.3.
- Ajax Search and Autocomplete 1.8.0
- Navigation Pro 1.12.0
What’s in Magento 2 modules?
The updates for Magento 2 extensions were released to address js and other errors that may occur, to add new opportunities for Magento 2 navigation menu, to offer new friendly layouts for Magento 2 search box, to help you show a remarkable rectangle label with offset, and to simplify managing extra fields on the checkout page.
This month we released the updates for M2 Sold Together 1.6.3, M2 Easy Catalog Images 1.4.4, M2 Ajax Pro 1.4.10, M2 Product Questions 1.6.1, M2 Image Slider 1.4.0, M2 AMP 1.3.5, M2 Lightbox Pro 1.2.4, M2 Product Tabs 1.7.0, M2 Product Labels 1.6.3, Page speed 1.3.4.
Furthermore, we'd like to emphasis some other Argento modules that have got a bunch of enhancements.
Ajax Search 1.8.0 release delivers the new “minimalistic form” layout. So now you can choose from 3 search input layouts.
With the latest release you also get the improved product list styles in results dropdown, improved results dropdown sizing when the browser gets resized, better scrolling inside dropdown results on mobile devices, and much more.
Social Login 1.1.0 release comes with newly added social login to registration popup, new Google login button style and the ability to change the extension styles right in theme customization.
A lot was done for Checkout Fields module. Since 1.3.0 release you are able to edit checkout fields directly from the order view page, select month and year from the dropdown when using date fields, and select fields to display in an email. Please check the user guide for details.
You can also see:
- added checkout fields data to orders API, check details in manual
- added calendar icon to fields with date type
- fixed js error on admin field edit form in Magento 2.3.2
- fixed required fields validation error on checkout page load
- fixed missing fields values when using the Paypal payment method
Navigation Pro 1.12.0 release has got many new options in order to help you deal with the navigation menu structure easier.
Dealing with a bit complex menu structure, you just need to configure the same settings for many menu items. So now you can use the Mass edit feature within the module configuration. It’s a simple one-page form that allows modifying almost all item settings for the unlimited number of items in a moment.
Among other cool settings you can see:
- Added ability to set global item settings based on item level.
- Added ability to sync item and dropdown settings with global settings from the menu.
- The improved default value for dropdown layout settings in each item. Now it shows properly inherited dropdown layout.
- Added ability to hide HTML content/widget when an item has no children.
- Added ability to use depend and var directives for item name renderer.
- Improved nowrap feature logic.
We really hope our August updates add value to your website functions. Drop us a line and let us know how you gonna use new features and improvements made in August. Your feedback helps us to create even better solutions for your eCommerce websites.
