It’s been a month since our last release of Avalanche and I’m pleased to announce another update! Avalanche 1.3.1 comes with a bunch of important fixes and compatibility with Magento 1.7. Many new features are in development for the next major release. In the meantime we upgraded the AJAX catalog and added some new sorting options. Here’s a comprehensive list of improvements to our premium Magento theme:
Magento 1.7 Compatibility
Now supporting 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, and 1.7
- Avalanche is now powered by the Comet Theme Framework
- Total AJAX Catalog with HTML5 Pushstate
- Added custom sorting options for ascending and descending: Featured, Price, Name, Best Selling, Latest, Highest Reviewed
- Added arrows to categories in left pane with subcategories in Avalanche Mobile
- Added “View Details” button to catalog grid view with configurable display and button text
- Improved relevance of search results (?)
- Styled the minimal price link on catalog grid/list view
- Removed old/special price labels on catalog grid/list view for cleaner look
- Fixed display issue with Search Autocomplete in IE
- Updated boilerplate translate.csv file
- Fixed inline JavaScript translation
- Improved Advanced Catalog Search Form
- Fixed Quick View in Advanced Catalog Search
- Fixed empty paragraph issue in /catalog/product/view/description.phtml
- Fixed Best Sellers Widget for Flat Catalog (and old Best Sellers)
- Fixed HTTP_USER_AGENT error for mobile (Data.php)
- Moved the Paypal Express checkout button below “Proceed to Checkout” button on cart page
- Fixed Quick View pricing updates for configurable products with price changing attributes/dropdowns
- Removed opinionated strip_tags() and getCleanContent() helper on description and short descriptions on the product page
Yes we’re still going and there’s lots of exciting projects on the roadmap for 2012. Stay tuned for more updates!
To show my appreciation for the Magento community and spread the word about Fast Division I’m pleased to introduce Pacifica, a free Magento 1.6+ theme for 2012! From time to time we’ll be releasing some excellent Magento freebies such as basic themes and extensions.
- Installation Guide
- Social Media Buttons: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest
- jQuery Nivo Banner Slider
- jQuery Image Zoom
- Latest Products & Best Sellers
Download Pacifica or visit the demo.
Interested in a theme built for speed, conversion and SEO? Check out our premium Magento theme Avalanche.
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If you’re like most store owners running a Magento shop, you’re probably editing your store files via FTP. Maybe you have a test store set up in a different folder. You might even being doing it live on production!
There’s a better way to manage your code and deploy updates painlessly: Git.
In software development, Git (/ɡɪt/) is a distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) system with an emphasis on speed.[4] Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.
Wouldn’t it be nice to do the following?
- Keep track of all your code changes in a secure environment.
- Collaborate on changes with others and see who changed what (now and for the future).
- Stop deploying updates manually using FTP and push only changed files instead.
- Use symlinks to update Magento on the fly without worrying about your themes or extensions.
- Create separate “branches” of your source code to work on new features without disrupting your current code.
In this article I’m going to walk you through how to set up a GitHub account, create a repository for your store, show you some desktop applications that can help you use Git without the command line or terminal, discuss Git basics, create symlinks, and lastly how to deploy to production. Trust me, learning how to use source control is worth it!
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It’s finally here! Magento Imagine is hosting the largest Magento conference ever in Las Vegas at the M Resort from April 23 – April 25. Find out what’s happening and stay in the know by following the #magentoimagine hash tag on Twitter.
I’ll be there taking notes, attending workshops and meeting everyone in the Magento community. Along the way I’m hoping to find out more about Magento 2 and learn a thing or two from other industry experts.
As a special thank you to the community we’re offering 15% off Avalanche for a limited time. Use the coupon code MAGENTOIMAGINE at checkout to get a high quality Magento theme at a very competitive price.
