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.
Read more →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.
Read more →Happy Australia Day everyone! Six years after our last Australia Day release, the extension is still going strong and we are celebrating again this year with the release of the first version of the Fontis Australia extension for Magento 2. This initial release of the Australia extension includes the Australian regions and the BPAY and direct deposit payment methods. An Australia Post shipping method is not included with this first release, but will be added in a later version along with the rest of the features from the Magento 1 extension.
Read more →Looking to manage remarketing code or other third-party services on your site, without needing a developer to make every change? Tag Manager is a free service from Google which aims to address this common problem and give you the ability to easily add tags for Google Analytics, AdWords, tracking pixels and more. The Fontis Google Tag Manager extension for Magento will automatically export common Magento data so that it can be used in GTM.
Read more →Today we are releasing version 2.0 of the Fontis Composer Autoloader extension for Magento, which is designed to let you use any Composer dependency within Magento. This release includes changes so that you no longer need to fire an extra event to use it for code that doesn't run during a normal Magento web request, such as a shell script.
These changes make the extension more generally applicable and mean developers no longer need to worry about whether Composer dependencies will be loaded differently based on environment.
Read more →PHP and Magento development has matured in the past few years. One of the biggest advances has been the widespread adoption of Composer, which has established itself as a de facto standard for the management of PHP packages and libraries. Though Composer doesn't immediately lend itself to the management of Magento extensions, the Magento developer community quickly realised the value of doing so and worked together to release the impressive magento-composer-installer.
Read more →Our popular Magento auditing tool, MageAudit, has been updated to collect your reports together for easy historical reference, while we've also added a number of other features requested by our customers, including the option to purchase multiple credits at a discounted rate.
Updated Features Previously, audit reports were isolated and could only be viewed by using the unique URL sent in confirmation emails. Though these URLs were randomised and measures were in place to lock reports where unusual access patterns were detected, given the sensitive nature of report contents we have made the decision to require authentication.
Read more →April saw the release of the latest version of Magento Enterprise Edition (1.14.2.0), bringing in the usual assortment of new features and bug fixes. While we wait for the corresponding release of Community Edition 1.9.2.0 (1.9.1.1 is basically 1.9.1.0 with the patch for SUPEE-5344 applied), we've put together some notes on the release based on a quick look through the changes.
With each new release, we first review the release notes for a summary of the changes, and these have improved a great deal in more recent releases.
Read more →We are pleased to announce the release of version 3.1.0 of the Fontis Australia extension. This new version includes:
Now allows for custom charge codes when importing rates, for merchants who don't use one of the standard eParcel codes. If enabled, the charge code will no longer be validated against the standard list and accept any codes sudmitted. Fixes checkout autocomplete JavaScript to send country codes correctly when multiple countries are available.
Read more →We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.4.0 of our Feeds Generator extension, which brings numerous fixes to the Google Shopping products feed generation and some other minor improvements.
Included in this release are the following changes:
The Google feed will only set a configurable product as a variant if it varies by one of the official attributes - color, size, material or pattern. This avoids problems with Google rejecting products from the feed that don't use one of these attributes.
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