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Magento Extension Roundup - July 2016

by David Erceg in Magento Extension Reviews

It's time for another Magento extension round-up, reviewing some free extensions that were released in July. This time we're looking at extensions for address validation, extra category descriptions and easier access to Magento logs. Contact Us Grid by BuzzzAky While Magento has a built-in contact form, it simply sends the enquiry to the merchant directly via email. The Contact Us Grid extension adds some additional functionality to this process. All enquiries that are placed will be logged to the database, and can then be viewed and replied to from within the admin panel.

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Magento’s Product Attributes Index Explained

by Peter Spiller in Magento

The Product Attributes index is an important part of Magento's category filtering system. This post provides an overview of what it is and how it works. Layered navigation and the Product Attributes index Magento's layered navigation allows customers to filter categories by whatever attributes you've set up. Customers can filter down to red t-shirts that come in size L, or only phones with more than 16GB of storage that fit into their budget.

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Magento Extension Roundup - June 2016

by Andrew Rollason in Magento Extension Reviews

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.

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Australia 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.

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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?

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Australia 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.

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Magento 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.

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Magento 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.

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Our 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.

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Australia 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.

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