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How to improve your Magento site navigation

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How do you make a person stay in your Magento site without their eyes squinting or brows meeting, looking as though he is about to analyze the most complex, deep and meaningful painting? With so many pieces of unsorted, and most often unsolicited, advice on how to improve site navigation, choosing the best can be as easy as walking on a field full of active landmines. That’s right, it is never easy. However, with the right points, proper prioritization, and appropriate placing this can be achieved. Indeed, navigation can either make or break your site depending on significant design and development.
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Changelog for (Magento 2 theme) UB MegaMall -- version 1.0.3:
Latest update: July 26, 2017

1.0.3

Fix the issues with the latest Magento 2.1.7 version:

  • Fixed: 404 issue when click ‘home’ menu from checkout page
  • Fixed: [mobile] style issue of the Add To Wishlist on the product detail page.
  • Fixed: The submenu items’ font was resized too small
  • Fixed: Automatically switch to default color when selecting a new store.
  • Fixed: [tablet] style issue of submenu items
  • Fixed: still show the reviews on the quick view popup when setting the Rating = No.
1.0.2
  • Integrate UB ThemeHelper, with revamped codebase for the whole theme.
1.0.1
  • Compatible with Magento version 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5
  • Upgrade the latest modules UB Mega Menu, UB Content Slider
  • Style New / Sale icon in the page detail
  • Fixed: Menu (1-column) style
  • Fixed: [ipad] My wishlist’s style issue
  • Fixed: [desktop] Update ‘Sort by’ button when filtering by product name
  • Fixed: [iphone 6] adjust the top menu to full width
  • Fixed: [desktop] lost image on vertical mega menu on the first loading
  • Fixed: [mobile] the textbox search form error

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While we’ve already started working on the Magento 1.9.3.4 update, today we are happy to inform you that our 35+ Magento 1.9.x themes are fully compatible with this latest Magento release.

As you might know, Enterprise Edition 1.14.3.4, Community Edition 1.9.3.4, and the SUPEE-9767 version 2 patch address customer registration and other issues encountered by some merchants when using the original release or patch.

Magento 2.x users are not affected by this update. Read more about SUPEE-9767 here.

In order to keep Magento 1.9.x safe and up-to-date, it is important to carry out this security update as soon as possible.
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UB Instant Layered Navigation & Shop By Brand

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Since the launch of UB Instant Layered Navigation last November, we have continued to improve the extension on the feedback coming from the early adopters. Today, we’re very happy to release an important update of this extension which lets you set up Shop By Brand (Manufacturer) functionality with ease. It fully supports multi-website, multi-store configuration. If you’re using our UB Instant Layered Navigation we’d love for you to try it out and share your feedback.

Let’s take an inside look at this new feature:

A visually exciting brands page, with A-Z filter

You must be wondering, why Shop By Brand?

The list of brands is an essential element of Magento store navigation but sometimes the number of brands can be dozens or hundreds. A list of checkboxes would be way too long to handle that, but a dedicated brand listing page is just the right size. Shop By Brand is a way to address this need in a convenient but highly user friendly way.

Shop By Brand - a great way to showcase collections

Shop By Brand -- a great way to showcase collections

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UB Mago theme

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Changelog for (Magento 2 theme) UB Mago -- version 1.0.1 Beta:
Latest update: June 28, 2017

1.0.1 Beta
  • Integrate UB ThemeHelper, with revamped codebase for the whole theme.
  • Compatible with Magento version 2.1.7
1.0.0 Beta
  • Compatible with Magento version 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5
  • Upgrade the latest modules UB Mega Menu v1.0.3 and 1.0.4, UB Content Slider v1.0.9
  • Style New / Sale icon in the page detail
  • Style 1 column menu
  • Update: UB Mago Quickstart

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UB Data Migration Pro v3.0.9

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Over the past two years of building the UB Data Migration Pro, we’ve evolved the extension’s functionalities and performance optimization. And we’ll constantly be improving our migration tool to ensure an even better Magento 2 data migration solution for you.

Today, let’s go through our new critical update -- UB Data Migration Pro version 3.0.9, with additional simple yet incredibly powerful features you should keep an eye out for.

Enhanced delta migration -- Both newly created & changed data in sync

The delta migration is used in the last stage of the data migration process to move data that was created or changed after the first migration from your Magento 1 database to Magento 2.

As you might notice, migrating delta data has been introduced since our major upgrade in UB Data Migration Pro v3.0.0. However, it just covers new data created on the Magento 1 site during your data migration process. That means changes to existing data on your current Magento 1 database are not applied and ported to Magento 2.

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UB Data Migration Pro v3.0.9 -- Enhanced delta migration functionality

With the new improvement in version 3.0.9, UB Data Migration Pro keeps both ‘created’ and ‘changed’ data in sync. Then, you can have an exact copy of the latest Magento 1 database at a specific point in time. Not only does this greatly minimize the manual workaround, but it also ensures data integrity, one of the essential factor for any data migration project. How convenient it is! Continue reading →

UB Data Migration Pro

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Changelog for (Magento 2) UB Data Migration Pro extension (version 3.0.9)
Latest update: June 20, 2017

3.0.9
  • Added: Allow to merge Magento 1’s default website/store/store view in step #2 with default Magento 2 website/store/store view
  • Added: Enhance delta migration feature that allows to port incremental changes of existing Magento 1 items that have been migrated to Magento 2 since the first migration (Our UB Data Migration Pro prior to version 3.0.9 only migrates newly added items in Magento 1 site)
  • Added: Auto re-structure Product Attribute Sets after migration.
  • Fine tuning for some special bad data cases in the Sales data
3.0.8
  • Fine-tuning: applied tweaks to handle specific bad data in the Sales data
  • Compatibility testing with Magento CE 2.1.7
3.0.7
  • Compatibility testing with Magento CE 2.1.6
  • Fine-tuning: applied tweaks to handle specific bad data in the Product data (Related to the image file name with special char in the table catalog_product_entity_media_gallery)
  • Added: Allowed migrate Downloadable Links Purchased data
3.0.6
  • Compatibility testing with Magento CE 2.1.5
  • Fine tuning to handle specific bad data in the Sales data and Product data
3.0.5
  • Compatibility testing with Magento CE 2.1.4
  • Fixed: Fix the issue with product tax classes. The tax data are converted but not assigned to the product.
  • Fixed: Fine tuning to handle specific bad data in the Sales data
3.0.4
  • Compatibility testing with Magento CE 2.1.3
  • Fixed: applied tweaks for some special database cases
3.0.3
  • Fixed: applied tweaks for some special database cases
3.0.2
  • (Fine-tuning): Notification improvement for Command-line interface
  • Fixed: applied tweaks for some special database cases
  • (Fine-tuning): rename the log file to ‘ub_data_migration.log’
3.0.1
  • Compatibility testing with Magento CE 2.1.2
  • (NEW) Supports Command-Line Interface (CLI) commands: Allows to proceed migration steps using the command lines in CLI mode, after completing all pre-migration setting steps.
  • Fine-tuning: Applies workarounds for some special database migration cases

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Magento 1.2.7 and Magento 1.9.3.3 Update

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June 5, 2017 Update:

Yesterday, Magento has just announced new releases for both Magento 2.1.4 and Magento 1.9.3.2. These new releases enhance product quality and security, including a fix SUPEE-9652 for the recently discovered Zend Framework 1 library vulnerability.

You can find information on all the changes in Magento 2.1.4 here and Magento 1.9.3.2 here.

We have implemented and tested the patch with our Magento 2 & Magento 1 extensions and themes. Below is the first batch updated for Magento 2.1.4 and Magento 1.9.3.2.

Magento 2.1.4 Updates

Magento 2.1.4 Updates

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UB Mega menu for Magento 2

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“Out with the old, in with the new.”
If anything, that mantra would best fit the world wide web and everything linked to it. And why shouldn’t it? As with the fashion industry, when it comes to the virtual world, a lot of trends simply come and go. So with several months already into the year 2017, you might well expect that many of those web design trends that have debuted or been in season the previous year is no longer the mainstream these days.

You wouldn’t be far off mark if you think that way, but it’s also good to note that web design trends and fashion trends have a key difference; web design trends aren’t just all about visuals. So web design trends aren’t immediately rendered outdated and obsolete after a year, unless of course these designs no longer work for the majority.

Floating elements, hamburger menus, parallax scrolling—all these became popular for some time until better design options have become available. While these trends faded in time, the trend for mega menus continues.

Apparently, mega menus are still popular among web design experts and developers. Wondering why? This article will outline 3 key reasons your Magento store would benefit from having a mega menu.

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