It's time for another Magento extension round-up, reviewing some free extensions that were released in June. This time we're looking at extensions allow frontend PDF printing, admin panel two factor authentication, multiple cart item delete and Pinterest tracking pixels.
Frontend PDF Invoice by Modules4U

While Magento provides adequate functionality for customers to view details about their past orders, it leaves them out in the cold if they actually want to take a copy of their orders for record keeping. This extension fills this gap in functionality, providing an easy way for customers to download a PDF of their order, with no setup required.
Read MoreAustralia 3.1.6 released
by Chris Norton in Announcements
We are pleased to announce the release of version 3.1.6 of the Fontis Australia extension for Magento 1. This is a minor version release of the extension which includes the following changes:
- Adds a new ATL options column to the exported Click & Send CSV file
- Fixes a bug with EXPRESS services
Thanks to Digital Pianism for their contribution.
Anchor categories and position sorting explained
by Oliver De Guzman in Magento
The Is Anchor category setting and category product positions do not play well when combined together. You might think that marrying two simple category settings would result in a simple solution, but think twice before you do so or you might get a headache of Magento proportion! In this post we will attempt to demystify how Is Anchor works and how you can best make use of it.
How does category positioning work?
You probably know that sorting a category by the default "Best Value" criteria uses the Position field of the products in the category to determine its position in the category listing. This is a whole number value which can be set per product in a category to sort the products in ascending numeric order. Setting a higher position value for a product will move it closer to the bottom of the category list, after all products with the default position of 0.
Read MoreAustralia Post API library 1.0.4 released
by Chris Norton in Announcements
We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.4 of the Fontis Australia Post API client library for PHP. This is a minor version release of the library which includes the following changes:
- Updated API base URL based on changes in the API
- Locked Guzzle dependency to the latest versions on the 3.x branch, as it is not compatible with newer versions
- Allows parcel weights to be provided using decimal numbers instead of integers
Since Australia Post have deprecated and will eventually decommission the legacy API URL, we encourage all users to upgrade to the latest version soon to avoid any future interruption.
Read MoreMagento Extension Roundup - May 2016
by Peter Spiller in Magento Extension Reviews
It's time for another Magento extension round-up, reviewing some free extensions that were released in May. This time we're looking at extensions for Facebook tracking, search improvements and order export, as well as Magento 2 command-line autocompletion.
Facebook Pixel by Apptrian

This is a straightforward extension that adds the Facebook tracking pixel to a Magento site. The pixel is included on a range of pages, including product pages, category pages, the checkout and the checkout success page. Tracking events for viewing content, purchases and registration are sent to Facebook via the pixel.
Read MoreMagento Extension Roundup - April 2016
by Paul Hoang in Magento Extension Reviews
In this Magento extension round-up, we quickly review some of the free extensions that were released in April. The theme for this month's extensions are small, drop-and-go extensions with minimal conflicts in your Magento installation.
Email Spellcheck by ArchApps

Customers who complete the checkout with an invalid email address can be costly in both time and money for the merchant to resolve.
This extension helps customers detect typos in their email address by validating their email address using the popular mailcheck.js Javascript library. In the case of an invalid email, the customer is provided with suggestions on how to correct the error. This extension has the added bonus of optionally validating email inputs in the admin panel.
Read MoreOur Campaign Monitor extension has a new home
by Chris Norton in Announcements
The Fontis Campaign Monitor extension for Magento has been one of our most popular projects, with over 10,000 downloads, and has been used by people all over the world to connect their Magento store with the Campaign Monitor mailing list service. In collaboration with Campaign Monitor we have overhauled the existing extension to be compatible with the latest versions of Magento 1 and the Campaign Monitor API. The extension now also has a new home, having been adopted as the official Campaign Monitor project rather than continuing on as our unofficial third-party solution.
Read MoreAustralia 3.1.5 released
by Chris Norton in Announcements
We are pleased to announce the release of version 3.1.5 of the Fontis Australia extension for Magento 1. This is a minor version release of the extension which includes the following changes:
- Moved the admin controller code and changed the URL paths to include "australia_" to try and avoid namespace conflicts with other extensions
- Add configuration to automatically decrypt the Auspost API keys when loading them from config
- Fixed the check for valid Eparcel charge codes
- Updated list of Australia Post PAC service codes
- Various minor code improvements and style fixes
Thanks to Justin Volpato for contributing the updated service codes.
Read MoreBlog Extension 2.0 Released
by Matthew Gamble in Announcements
Since the first public versions of the Fontis Blog extension for Magento, we've added a number of important new features culminating in this major version release. It also utilises the recently released Router extension.
The biggest change in version 2 is the addition of support for multiple blogs per store. We realised that the "blog" style of releasing content made sense in many contexts, not just for a typical news feed of posts. Content series such as how to articles, product reviews, press highlights etc. may be better off as separate blogs rather than being combined into a "one-size-fits-all" news feed, where categories or tags within a single blog was previously the only option available. To accommodate this, you can now have as many blogs as necessary, available at whatever URLs are desired.
Read MoreRouter Magento Extension Released
by Matthew Gamble in Announcements
Today we're releasing a new free Magento extension for developers - Fontis_Router. This is a low-level extension designed to provide better routing for other extensions that want pretty URLs. Its purpose is to stop Magento from automatically routing requests for things like /blog/post/view/id/1
. It is then up to the developer to implement their own router class to ensure that only the URLs they want to be considered valid are accepted.