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Amasty extensions updates –April 2018Alina Bragina Apr 28, 2018
Hello to Amasty blog readers!
We are happy to introduce you all the updates we’ve made in April. Thismonth, we have upgraded a lot of Amasty extensions. Some of them,like Magento 2 AJAX Shopping Cart, Magento 2 Color Swatches Pro,Improved Sorting and others have been equipped with a new informationsection. Now you can see the extension version, all the available updates,information on conflicts and useful links to the User Guide right on themodule Configuration page. Also, we have added 8 new features to theFAQ and Product Questions extension for Magento 2 and made a lot ofother things.
So, let’s take a closer look.
Magento 2
Magento 2 FAQ and Product Questions 1.1.0
NEW: The questions’ rating setting with the ability to force its valuewas added:
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NEW: A new option that allows limiting the number of answers onthe category, search, and product pages was added:
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NEW: The import feature was added. Now, you can easily transferyour FAQ archive.NEW: Now you can leave a question without an individual URL.Thus, you’ll give the question and the answer to it without the Readmore button.NEW: We added SEO improvements that allow you to set ‘noindex’,‘nofollow’, and canonical URL for specific question pages. Also, theability to automatically add the FAQ pages to the Magento XML
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sitemap was added, as well as the compatibility with our XMLGoogle® Sitemap extension.NEW: The feature that allows adding rich snippets to the FAQ pageswas presented.NEW: Configurable social sharing buttons were added to the modulesettings:
NEW: Now the extension collects visitor statistics and allows you toset sort order to the most popular questions.
Magento 2 AJAX Shopping Cart 1.4.10
NEW: A new information section was added. Now you can see theversion of the installed extension, available updates, the User Guidelink, conflicts and other useful data right on the module Configurationpage:
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NEW: We added the More Choices title for the related productsdisplayed on the pop-up and improved the style:
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Customers are now able to add relevant products to cart immediatelywithout loading the product page on mobile devices.Compatibility with the Google Tag Manager was added.
Magento 2 Abandoned Cart Email 1.3.1
NEW: The ‘Reply to’ headers were added to the email configuration:
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Now email headers can be set per multiple store views.Minor fixes were made.
Magento 2 Extra Fee 1.4.1
NEW: 6 new advanced conditions were added: Weight, Quantity InStock, Billing Address Country, Payment Method, Shipping AddressLine, Orders Subselection:
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NEW: Customer Attributes can now be used in conditions.Compatibility with the One Step Checkout extension was improved.Stability improvements and minor fixes were made.
Magento 2 Free Gift 1.4.0
NEW: We introduced a new ‘Add gift with each N-th product in thecart’ action, which allows you to add gifts automatically based on theproduct quantity in the cart:
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We made minor improvements and fixed the issue with the ‘Auto addpromo items for every $X spent’ condition.
Magento 2 Google Invisible reCaptcha 2.1.1
NEW: Now you can protect the FAQ and Product Questionsextension with Google Invisible reCaptcha. The Captcha support isavailable right out of the box:
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We updated the information panes.
Magento 2 Product Parts Finder 1.7.0
NEW: Now the extension allows you to add Finder to the DefaultCategory automatically in order to get the Finder working properly atthe home and CMS pages.NEW: Now you can manage Finder block visibility in the DefaultCategory. It is useful when there are several finders added to thedefault category but you need to display only one of them on thefrontend.NEW: Now there is a possibility to choose categories from the list inthe configuration to enable the finder.NEW: Also you can specify the finder block position in theconfiguration.NEW: A new information section was added. Now you can see theversion of the installed extension, available updates, the User Guidelink, conflicts and other useful data right on the module Configurationpage.
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NEW: Now the extension includes ‘Chosen’ jQuery plugin, whichmakes select boxes more user-friendly and equips them with thesearch. Read more here.Mass Delete Action was added to the Finder Products Grid.We removed the ?amfinder parameter from the URL when there ismore than one product in the result.A number of minor fixes and improvements were made.
Magento 2 One Step Checkout 1.7.0
NEW: A Delivery Comment was added to the ‘Delivery’ section. Nowyour customers can leave any message to a courier, for example, a PINcode to access the building.NEW: Now it’s easy to add a CMS block to the top and bottom of thecheckout page. The CMS blocks on the checkout allow you to displayany useful information, e.g.: a telephone number.NEW: Now it is possible to change the checkout block titles like‘Shipping Address’ right from the extension configuration.NEW: Compatibility with Amasty Gift Card extension wasintroduced.Now the data entered on the checkout page won’t be reset after thepage reload.The checkout fields that are required by the default Magento 2configuration now can’t be changed to optional.CSS 2 LESS refactoring was introduced. The One Step Checkoutextension uses the LESS functionality. With this update, custommodifications can be easier to make.A number of minor improvements were made.
Magento 2 Gift Card 1.5.0
NEW: The Gift Card field is now available on Magento checkout.NEW: Now gift card images can be attached to emails in PDF format.NEW: You can impose a tax on a Gift Card purchase.
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Compatibility with the One Step Checkout extension was added.
Magento 2 Google Rich Snippets 1.2.0
NEW: Now the module allows adding Merchant Business Info. Youcan also add your Organization Social Profiles links. NEW: We added the ‘Breadcrumbs Type’ setting that allows choosingbetween the long and short type for the Search Engine.NEW: Also a new information section was added. Now you can seethe version of the installed extension, available updates, the UserGuide link, conflicts and other useful data right on the moduleConfiguration page.
Magento 2 SEO Toolkit 1.7.0
NEW: Now the extension allows to show Merchant Business Info inthe Google Rich Snippets.NEW: You can add Social Profile links of your Organization to theGoogle Rich Snippets.NEW: We added the ‘Breadcrumbs Type’ setting in the Google RichSnippets extension that allows selecting between the long and shorttype for the Search Engine.A number of minor fixes were made.
Magento 2 Loyalty Program 2.2.1
NEW: A new discount breakdown was introduced. Now you can seeall promotion rules applied with a discount amount for each of them.NEW: Compatibility with the Customer Attributes was introduced.Links to usage examples from the User Guide were added to theAdmin Panel.
Magento 2 Improved Layered Navigation 2.7.1
NEW: A new information section was added. Now you can see the
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version of the installed extension, available updates, the User Guidelink, conflicts and other useful data right on the module Configurationpage.We improved the category tree display logic. The ‘Render CategoryTree’, ‘Category Tree Depth’ and ‘Render Category Level’ settingswork was essentially redesigned.We optimized the mobile experience. Now the ‘SHOW’ button appearsat the bottom of the screen once a filter option is changed. We alsoimproved the ‘SHOW’ button behavior for the price and brands filters.The functionality that adds the Custom Pages and Brands to our XMLGoogle® Sitemap extension was moved to the Improved LayeredNavigation extension starting from this version.We added a lock to the Magento 2 custom filter indexer if the customfilter is not used.We also made a number of minor fixes and improvements.
Magento 2 XML Google® Sitemap 1.3.2
NEW: We added Hreflang Tag Support to notify Google what site toshow to foreign users, which is useful for multilingual and multi-regional sites.The functionality that adds the Custom Pages and Brands to theMagento XML Sitemap was moved to the Improved LayeredNavigation extension starting from version 2.7.1. So, update thisextension to use the functionality.The functionality that adds Landing Pages to the Magento XMLSitemap was moved to the Landing Pages extension starting fromversion 1.2.6. Update this extension as well to use the functionality.The functionality that adds the Blog Pages to the Magento XMLSitemap was moved to our Blog Pro extension starting from version1.1.2. Please, update this extension as well to use the functionality.Compatibility with our FAQ and Product Questions extension wasintroduced.
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We also improved the compatibility with the 3rd party extensions.We made the `amasty_hreflang_uuid` column optional for thecms_page.Now you can show the watermarked images in the sitemap.Code style refactoring was made.
Magento 2 Landing Pages 1.2.8
NEW: A new information section was added. Now you can see theversion of the installed extension, available updates, the User Guidelink, conflicts and other useful data right on the module Configurationpage.The functionality that adds the Landing Pages to XML Google®Sitemap was moved to the Landing Pages extension starting from thisversion.The performance improvement was made. Thus, we optimized theslow database queries.Minor fixes were made.
Magento 2 Color Swatches Pro 2.3.9
NEW: An information section was added to the module configurationpage. It shows the extension version, and useful links (to the UserGuide and FAQ).The issue with the ‘Configurable Preselect’ feature when the gallerywas loaded before the swatches was fixed.Minor fixes were made.
Magento 2 Efficient Order Export 1.2.0
NEW: A new functionality for multiple stores was added.We also removed the validation for the Mapping field.We fixed the issue with a customer group on the profile edit page andmade minor improvements.
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Magento 2 Out of Stock Notification 1.4.1
NEW: An information section was added to the module configurationpage. Now you can see the version of the installed extension, availableupdates, the User Guide link, conflicts and other useful data right onthe module Configuration page.The issue with the duplicated tab in Magento 2.2.3 was fixed.
Magento 2 Special Promotions 2.2.1
NEW: A new discount breakdown was introduced. Now you can seeall promotion rules applied with a discount amount for each of them.Links to usage examples from the User Guide were added to theAdmin Panel.
Magento 2 Shipping Table Rates 1.3.1
NEW: We introduced the Volumetric Weight calculation. If theVolumetric Weight is assigned to a product, the extension compares itwith a regular product Weight and chooses the biggest value for usingit in calculations. With this option, a carrier can optimize the usage ofthe cargo space more efficiently.We fixed the issue with the shipping method comment that wasn’tdisplayed on the checkout page and made a number of minor designimprovements.
Magento 2 Improved Sorting 2.0.6
NEW: We added compatibility with Smile-SA/elasticsuite.
Magento 2 Payment Restrictions 2.0.7
We improved compatibility with the Gift Card extension.
Magento 1
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Improved Layered Navigation 3.6.4
NEW: A new information section was added. Now you can see theversion of the installed extension, available updates, the User Guidelink, conflicts and other useful data right on the module Configurationpage.NEW: Now the extension automatically sets ‘is_anchor’ to ‘yes’ forthe root categories if this value is null during the module installation.NEW: We added a separate ‘Canonical URL’ config field for theBrand pages.NEW: We added the brand and custom pages into the defaultsitemap.We fixed the issue with the multi-select filter when Solr was enabledand implemented minor improvements.
Product Parts Finder 2.6.0
NEW: Now the extension allows adding Finder to the DefaultCategory automatically in order to get the Finder working properly atthe home and CMS pages. It also allows you to manage the Finderblock visibility on the Default Category. It is useful when there areseveral finders added to the default category but you need to displayonly one of them on the frontend.NEW: You can select categories from the list in the configuration toenable the finder.NEW: You can specify the finder block position in the configuration.
FAQ and Product Questions 1.5.0
NEW: Social sharing buttons were added to the question page.NEW: A new setting for displaying question tags was added.NEW: Now you can export the extension data (categories andquestions) to import it in appropriate Magento 2 extension.The issue with breadcrumbs if a theme doesn’t use breadcrumbs block
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was fixed.Minor fixes were made.
Improved Sorting 1.4.3
NEW: A new information section was added. Now you can see theversion of the installed extension, available updates, the User Guidelink, conflicts and other useful data right on the module Configurationpage.Now it is even easier to configure the Sorting Options order with allthe options displayed in the ‘Custom Positions for Sorting Options’setting.Minor fixes were made.
Hide Price 1.10.2
NEW: A new information section was added. Now you can see theversion of the installed extension, available updates, the link to theUser Guide, conflicts and other useful data right on the moduleConfiguration page.NEW: We added compatibility with VES blocks.The ‘Request a Quote’ button design was improved.Minor improvements were made.
Google Invisible reCaptcha 2.1.4
NEW: We added the check for the ‘URL to Enable’ field to preventInvisible reCaptcha from being added to the checkout page.NEW: We added the support of the older Magento versionscontaining prototype.js.We updated stability for our extensions and made minorimprovements, such as the information panes update.
Zoom Pro 2.1.0
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NEW: Support of the Fancybox 3 was added. However, it still allowsyou to select the Fancybox 2 or the Fancybox version of the customtheme.
Search Pro 1.6.3
NEW: A new information section was added. Now you can see theversion of the installed extension, available updates, the User Guidelink, conflicts and other useful data right on the module Configurationpage.We improved the pop-up styles and made a number of minor fixes.
Product Labels 4.1.8
NEW: A new information section was added. Now you can see theversion of the installed extension, available updates, the User Guidelink, conflicts and other useful data right on the module Configurationpage.We improved the compatibility with the Color Swatches Pro extensionand custom themes.We fixed the issue with the z-index and made minor improvements.
Google Rich Snippets 1.4.11
NEW: We added the check for the category with 0 products.A number of minor fixes were made.
Configurable Product Matrix 1.0.5
NEW: A new information section was added. Now you can see theversion of the installed extension, available updates, the User Guidelink, conflicts and other useful data right on the module Configurationpage.A number of minor improvements were made.
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Shipping Table Rates 2.4.0
NEW: We introduced the Volumetric Weight calculation. If theVolumetric Weight is assigned to a product, the extension compares itwith a regular product Weight and choose the biggest value for usingin calculations. With this option, a carrier can optimize the usage ofthe cargo space.
Store Locator 1.5.5
NEW: The ability to display all locations after clicking the ‘Near By’or ‘Search’ buttons was added.We fixed the issue with the merged JS script.
Full Page Cache 1.8.12
NEW: The links to the User Guide were added to the Admin Panel.We updated the information panes.We fixed the issue with the crawler queue generation for HTTPS.
Auto Add Promo Items 2.7.0
NEW: We introduced a new ‘Add gift with each N-th product in thecart’ action, which allows you to add gifts automatically based on theproduct quantity in the cart.
AJAX Shopping Cart 2.4.5
We improved the flying image effect.We fixed the issue with the ‘Continue Button Action on Product ViewPages’ setting and made a number of minor fixes.
Multiple Coupons 1.5.1
Compatibility with 3rd party checkout solutions was improved.
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Minor improvements
How to get the updates?
You can easily download the updated extensions in your account. If youhave any questions regarding module updates, please submit a ticket here,and we’ll quickly help you out.
