Blog

Magento 2 extensions and themes – Latest News, Updates, Tutorials and much more

UB Atoms theme

0

April 15, 2021 Update: UB Atoms v1.0.0 stable released!
Feb 5, 2021 Update: UB Atoms v1.0.1 beta has just been released, with a new Fashion homepage added.
Nov 26, 2020 Update: We’ve just introduced the UB Atoms theme hierarchy that we’re working on here. It is fully revamped, unlike any other Magento 2 themes that Ubertheme has offered

We’re excited to introduce you to a sneak peek of a revolutionary new Magento 2 theme. It’s called UB Atoms.

Inspired by Atomic Design -- a methodology of creating modular designs, UB ‘Atoms’ is designed to be exactly what it sounds like -- establishing the basic building blocks for pages, such as form label, an input or a button, color, typography, grids, and the like, rather than just creating simple collections of web pages.

The theme structure will be fully revamped, unlike any other Magento 2 themes that Ubertheme has offered.

Magento 2 theme - UB Atoms

Continue reading →

UB Content Slider v.1.1.7

0

UB Content Slider v1.1.7 now supports Slick carousel by default in addition to the existing OWL carousel library. This release helps to boost and increase sales in a number of ways by allowing you to display attractive banner sliders, best seller product carousels, lookbook, etc on your Magento 2 store using the Slick carousel.

We will walk you through new features and improvements in UB Content Slider v1.1.7 below. Continue reading →

Carousel examples and takeaways

0

Designing a carousel (sometimes called ‘slider’, ‘slideshow’) that works can be a real pain and it’s true that sliders do suck if they aren’t used or designed well. You might have heard of the drawbacks around sliders such as:

  • Only a small percentage of people actually click on a slider, which almost always the first slide;
  • Sliders don’t always work well on mobile devices;
  • People tend to ignore your slider because it triggers banner blindness. Visitors will skip the messages in your slider as they consider it advertisement or promotions;

So, is the carousel really bad? If carousels aren’t that effective, why do people use them?

Actually, carousels introduce a level of complexity to an interface, however, the carousels are everywhere on the web and have been an essential web design tool for e-commerce sites.

So, let’s take a closer look at some real use cases to see the possibilities that carousels offer and learn how to make carousels work better. Continue reading →

UB Mega Menu v1.2.0

0

We’re happy to announce the release of UB Mega Menu v1.2.0 that brings a new menu type -- horizontally stacked category dropdown. This simple solution is handy for a massive retail store with deep level categories.

Let’s take a closer look and see how you can experiment with your mega navigations.

Multiple horizontal menu levels

With the horizontally stacked category dropdown, the mega menu is visually divided into the 3-level structure: Main menu > Submenu 1 > Submenu 2.

On mouse hover, each primary category branches into submenus with corresponding second-level and third-level subcategories visible at once in one dropdown.

Magento 2 mega menu - Horizontal and Vertical menus

New menu type -- Horizontally stacked category dropdown -- UB Mega Menu

Continue reading →

UB Trex Pro thumbnail

0

Changelog for (Magento 2 theme) UB Trex Pro -- version 1.0.7:
Latest update: Nov 2, 2020

1.0.7
  • Compatibility testing and fixing issues with Magento 2.4.1
  • Update to the latest UB Mega Menu, UB Content Slider, and UB Quick View extensions.
1.0.6
  • Compatibility testing and fixing issues with Magento 2.4.0
  • Added: Integrate new Magento 2 extension -- UB Rich Snippets by default.
  • Added: Lookbook layouts for Fashion and Furniture
  • Fixed: Inherit Layout XML with child_theme through UB Theme Helper
  • Improve Minicart style including CTA button and spacing
1.0.5
  • Change the Masshead using Category Image instead of Block CMS.
  • Add Lazyload Configuration in the UbThemeHelper (UB Trex Pro | Theme | Elements | Main | LazyLoad). Lazyload will be automatically removed when being disabled via Ub Themehelper
  • Change Static Block Content to automatically switch images when viewing in different devices
  • Change CSS Button (Primary/Secondary) for CSS optimization
  • Improved & optimized LESS
1.0.4

Continue reading →

UB Rich Snippets Release

0

UB Rich Snippets extension uses JSON-LD to automatically add valid structured data information (using schema.org vocabulary) about your Magento 2 site in the background. This way, the extension entirely separates the markup data from the HTML code, so you do not need to tweak the HTML elements directly to integrate the snippets.

The extension will primarily focus on supporting the following types of rich snippets:

  • Product Snippets
  • Category Snippets
  • Organization
  • Breadcrumbs
  • Facebook OpenGraph
  • Twitter card (work-in-progress)
  • Sitelinks search box
  • Website

Continue reading →

Shoppable lookbook

0

For any kind of aspirational lifestyle products (e.g.. clothing, furniture, footwear, cosmetics, etc), just showing a photo of your product isn’t always enough. You need to promote a particular product or product line in a visually appealing way. This is where a digital lookbook comes in handy.

Enter the lookbook, you’re probably familiar with the similar terms like Shop this room, Shop the look, Shop by Look, Product Tours, etc. When done right, a lookbook page helps to tell a story, engage your customers, and inspire them to buy your products. And the customers can interact and buy straight from your lookbook.

Shoppable Lookbook

Shoppable Lookbook.

Let’s take a quick look at how you can create a lookbook page for your own Magento 2 store. We’ll cover two options: Continue reading →

Migrating Configurable Products

0

For anyone familiar with Magento 1, it’s quite common that a configurable product is one of the most popular product types and powerful when you sell complex products with multiple attributes.

However, it can be quite daunting migrating configurable products from Magento 1 to Magento 2 since Magento 1 provides fairly extensive pricing options, such as Special Price, Tier Price, and Cost. That’s why we received many questions like “does the migration tool migrate configurable products attached to the correct simple products and attribute sets?”.

In this article, we will try to cover the main differences of Configurable Products in Magento 1 versus Magento 2 and how our UB Data Migration Pro module helps to migrate all Configurable Products from Magento 1 to Magento 2 automatically. Before we dig deeper, let’s talk briefly about what simple products versus configurable products are. Continue reading →

Magento 2.4 - Release

3
Update: All Magento 2 extensions at Ubertheme are fully compatible with Magento 2.4.0. Check it out here.

Magento 2.4 -- a major update -- has just been officially launched today. It comes with improvements in security and performance that make Magento 2 better in various aspects, with over 98 new features, 68 bug fixes to core code, 7 test cycles, and 30+ security enhancements.

For the Open Source edition, here’s what the introduction of M2.4.0 has to offer merchants:

Substantial security enhancements

This release includes 30+ security fixes and improvements which also addresses remote code execution (RCE) and cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Continue reading →

Preview of UB Rich Snippets module

0

Recently, we’ve announced that you can get the Rich Snippets built-in UB Trex Pro theme by default (In case you missed, you can check it out here). We decided to implement the feature under a new UB Rich Snippets module. This way, you have full control over increasing the chance of getting rich results to your Magento sites, either with our UB Trex Pro or any 3rd party theme.

In this article, we briefly go over the key features our upcoming UB Rich Snippets module provides and why it’s a great way to make your product listings compelling and efficient in search results.
Continue reading →