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UB Mega Menu 1.1.4

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  • Feb 14, 2019 Update: UB Mega Menu v.1.1.5 has just been released with incremental updates and enhancement.
  • Nov 7, 2018 Update: Scroll down to see the new enhancement in the new UB Mega Menu 1.1.4

We just pushed UB Mega Menu 1.1.3 out with important new features.

For a massive retail store with a lot of categories and subcategories, how to create a mega menu with deep navigation options? And how are you sure your customers can easily find what they’re looking for in one place?

This update brings a simple solution by allowing for direct hover of each of the product categories to reveal its sub-categories. Continue reading →

Magento PWA studio

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Magento has introduced Magento PWA studio for some time. It is supposed to bring us a suite of tools which you can use to build online stores that behave like apps.

Why is PWA growing in popularity? Will it soon dominate the Magento 2 landscape? And where you can learn more about the Magento PWAs? This article will shed some light on those questions. Continue reading →

Halloween 2018

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Ubertheme is celebrating the Halloween season with a big sale!

What’s your plan these spooky days?! Every year, we celebrate Halloween with Magento lovers all over the world. This ghoulish season, we decided to offer you a great deal by treating you to great savings!

Halloween Treats for Everyone!

Halloween Treats for Everyone!

It’s all treat and no trick -- get 20% off for all of the following products from Ubertheme: Continue reading →

Free Magento 2 theme UB Trex

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Today we are happy to announce that UB Trex (beta) -- our first free Magento 2 theme -- is available for download. A lot of work has gone into this dedicated free theme since we announced the first public preview.

Free Magento 2 theme - UB Trex

New to Magento 2? Perfect, UB Trex can probably be your practical first step and just what you would need to start with for your first online store. UB Trex is clean and simple, highlights the flat and minimalistic design. Continue reading →

Sample Magento 2 websites

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What are some of the top Magento 2 websites around? We were curious to know too, so we went looking.

Here, we’ve curated a list of our favorite Magento 2 stores, including some of the earliest adopters, to inspire your own.

Whether you are about to migrate your Magento 1 store to Magento 2, or create a brand new Magento 2 store, this list is sure to give you new ideas and inspiration for improving your Magento 2 store.

Let’s dive in. Continue reading →

Magento 2.3 new features

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Back in April this year, Magento announced at the Magento Imagine conference about the next major release on the platform: Magento 2.3. Unlike its predecessor, this release packs significant and impactful new functionality and improvements.

This article will outline the most exciting features which this major release, scheduled later this year, will bring:

  • Progressive Web App (PWA)
  • GraphQL support
  • Declarative DB Schema
  • Asynchronous and Bulk Web API
  • Elasticsearch Updates (Moved to Magento Open Source)
  • Complete PHP 7.2 Support
  • Multi Source Inventory (MSI)
  • WYSIWYG Upgrade
  • Page Builder
  • Cache-Management ACL
  • Google reCAPTCHA and Two Factor Authentication

Let’s have a closer look at them. Continue reading →

Magento 1 End of Life June 2020

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As you are probably aware of, Magento has officially announced the end of support date for Magento 1. The software support for Magento Open Source 1 (formally known as Community Edition) and Magento Commerce (formally known as Enterprise Edition) will be extended through June 2020.

The dates have been rumored for quite some time. And now we’re all clear about the specifics of Magento 1’s end of life and there is no need to worry about Magento 1 End-of-life in 2018. Continue reading →

UB Trex - Free Magento 2 theme

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Oct 5, 2018 Update
The first live demo of UB Trex theme is out for Magento 2.2.6. This remains to be a work-in-progress demo, we’re ironing bugs, optimizing responsive layout, and adding further improvements. So stay tuned.

As you might know, Trex is a dynamic free theme with a compelling look and clean code that we first created for Magento 1. This one was specially designed for the bike and bike accessories web stores. We loved it, our members appreciated it too.

However, Trex is 6+ years old now, and it needs a new look in sync with the new-age design approach and absolutely new Magento 2 platform. For this reason, our team carefully crafted and had a significant makeover with a brand new design for the Trex theme and gave it a new code, named UB Trex. Continue reading →

Knockout JS in Magento 2 checkout

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Magento 2 uses the Knockout JS framework to dynamically build the checkout page. Knockout JS makes use of the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern to build the dynamic javascript user interfaces.

In this article, we will start off by looking into all aspects of the rendering process of Magento 2 checkout page. Then we will study an example of using Knockout JS in UB One Step Checkout -- a one step checkout extension for Magento 2. We hope this gives you a foundation for further looking into Knockout JS. Continue reading →