2018

Welcome to the Magento extension round-up, where we quickly review some of the more notable extensions which were released in the past month. In this month's round-up, we look at extensions for redirecting product review pages, adding multiple flat shipping rates, customer group membership and payment method restriction.

Magento 2

Multiple Flat Rates by Mageplaza

License: Custom
Version Reviewed: 1.0.0

Although Magento 2 supports flat rate shipping, you are limited to a single rate. This can be restrictive when you want to expand your market to other countries or add an alternative shipping service and rate.

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We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.3 of the Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2. This is a minor update that adds the ability to export orders to CSV using the Click & Send format, and adds compatibility with recent versions of PHP and Magento.

Changes in this version are:

• Add Click & Send CSV export
• Add support for PHP 7.1 and 7.2
• Add support for Magento 2.2

The Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2 is available for immediate download on GitHub and is available to install through Composer from our site. If you have any feedback or would like to contribute, please submit an issue on GitHub.

In this month's Magento extension round-up, we look at some recent Magento 2 extensions that optimise your store's URL rewrites, notify external channels of store events, enable an enhanced FAQ page and allow customers to add comments to their orders.

Magento 2

URL Rewrite Optimiser by Fisheye

License: MIT
Version Reviewed: 1.0.2

An important part of SEO is making sure URLs are both descriptive and readable. Magento achieves this by maintaining a list of readable URLs consisting of "slugs", and the canonical URLs that they map to. For each product page, multiple URL rewrites are generated: one consisting of the product's unique slug by itself, and one for each category path that the product can be found in. This adds up to a lot of URL rewrites. In fact, for most Magento stores, the URL rewrite table is the largest in the database by a wide margin!

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In this month's Magento extension round-up, we quickly review some recent extensions: sitemap and API improvements, product visibility checks and a tool to clean up unused product images.

Magento 1

Product Visibility Grid by itonomy

License: MIT
Version Reviewed: 1.0.0

If a Magento product isn't appearing on the frontend, it can be difficult to work out why. There are a number of factors that determine whether a product is visible, including stock status, the visibility attribute, and so on. This extension displays a modified product grid that summarises the various visibility factors, so you can easily see why a product is or isn't visible. The grid also allows reindexing products, to help with cases where an out of date index is the problem.

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In this month's Magento extension round-up we look at some recent Magento 2 extensions. These extension add improvements to media storage, catalog, translations and product media gallery areas.

Magento 2

Magento2 Flysystem by Flagbit

License: MIT
Version Reviewed: 0.1.6

A powerful addition to your Magento 2 installation that allows you to use an alternative media storage location. If you already have a large amount of media on a cloud service such as Amazon S3 and end up having to manually re-upload on your installation, this extension will simply this process for you. This is achieved by configuring the required service (Only FTP at the moment), and using the new Flysystem modal included with the extension to browse and select media files.

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We are pleased to announce the released of version 1.0.3 of our Customer Group Access library for Magento 2. This version updates the library for compatibility with Magento 2.2, and PHP 7.1 and 7.2.

This update is important for the Fontis Australia extension, which depends on and automatically installs this library and would have been preventing installation on newer versions of Magento 2.

The Customer Group Access library for Magento 2 is now available for immediate download on GitHub and will be installed as a Composer dependency alongside the Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2. If you have any feedback or would like to contribute, please submit an issue on GitHub.

It is time for another Magento extension roundup, reviewing some free extensions that were released in June. This month we have a fake data generator for testing, a new style of banner slider, and product review reminders.

Magento 2

Masquerade elgentos

License: MIT
Version Reviewed: ba7a88ceec89

The Masquerade extension gives you the ability to create fake data by configuring rules. It is built upon the popular Faker library that can generate sensible looking fake data based on locales, for example addresses, names and phone numbers.

The configuration is YAML based and should be formatted using Faker formatters. Once you have specified the necessary database connection details, you can start generating fake data in the Magento database.

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We are pleased to announce the Enhanced Category Products extension for Magento 1 (Magento 2 support is not available at this time). This extension provides a new interface to manage positioning of items in a category, making it faster and easier to merchandise products.

To reorder products with the Enhanced Category Products extension (ECP) you can simply drag and drop products around in a grid, or use quick access buttons to move products to the front or back of the list. Each product is displayed with its image and basic properties such as price and stock on hand, to give you the information needed for merchandising. You can even filter products and use an auto-sort to do most of the heavy lifting for you.

Welcome to the May 2018 Magento extension round-up, where we quickly review some of the more notable free and open source extensions which were released last month. We'll review extensions that help you conform to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), login as customer, put your Magento store into maintenance mode without hassle, and preview main transactional emails directly on backend.

Magento 2

Enhanced Privacy by Flurrybox

License: GPLv3
Version Reviewed: 1.0.1

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It's time for another Magento extension round-up, reviewing some free extensions that were released in March. In this post, we'll review extensions to help you optimise your images, provide birthday coupons to your customers, improve the cron system, ensure your customers aren't using insecure passwords, an easy product import/export tool, and something to spice up your product detail pages.

Magento 2

Image Optimizer by JustBetter

This extension will ensure that all your images are optimised so that they take up as little disk space as possible. It reduces the amount of storage space required to host all of your media, which can sometimes be at a premium depending on your hosting setup. It also reduces the bandwidth required to send the images to your customers, which is especially important for mobile users.

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