Changelog for (Magento 2) UB Instant Layered Navigation extension (version 1.0.8)
Latest update: May 17, 2022

1.0.8
  • Fixed compatible with Magento open source 2.4.4
  • PHP 8.1 support
  • Fine-tuning Less coding
1.0.7
  • Testing for compatibility with Magento 2.4.2, 2.4.2-p1, 2.4.3.
  • Fine-tuning PHP codebase.
1.0.6
  • Testing for compatibility with Magento 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.4.0, 2.4.1.
  • Improved: update the codebase to be fully compatible with our new UB Base extension that manages all Ubertheme’s extensions under one backend UI dashboard.

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Magento 2 Development bundle


Jun 25 Update: UB Trex Pro theme has just been updated with a new Furniture Homepage, fully compatible with Magento 2.3.5-p1. It’s also improved with Infinite Scrolling/Load More, Advanced Product Tabs

The creation of different Magento 2 stores is a time consuming and costly process. What if you could lay one strong Magento 2 bundle that can help get you started with any Magento 2 project faster and more stable development?

With UB Trex Pro, you have a new theme and pre-integrated extension package that can speed up the development on the Magento 2 platform. It contains one core theme, built-in extensions, and theme helper covering essential Magento 2 theme elements -- many of which are easily extendable.

Here are five of the key improvements of UB Trex Pro that you are sure to benefit the most from: Continue reading

Product Hotspot - UB Content Slider

Oct 22, 2020 Update: UB Content Slider v1.1.7 built in Slick carousel by default in addition to OWL carousel. Fully compatible with Magento 2.4.1. Check it out here!

Aug 30, 2019 Update: UB Content Slider v1.1.4 with Product Image Hotspot and Lookbook now available.

Allow us to introduce you to Image Hotspot -- a new light, beneficial add-on that is built on top of our [M2] UB Content Slider module. Here’s a short overview of this new feature that we’re working on at present.

With Image Hotspot feature, it allows you to upload any static image and add various hotspots (any number possible) over that image. When you hover a hotspot, key product information like product title, thumbnail and price will be highlighted as a layer over the image like this screenshot: Continue reading

Magento 2 Extension Bundle

We are excited to announce that UB One Step Checkout is now part of Magento 2 Extension Bundle.

By subscribing to this ultimate Magento 2 Extensions Bundle, you get access to all of our premium Magento 2 extensions at a hugely discounted price. And this offer is only for a limited time!

For just $399 you receive $1065 worth of premium Magento 2 extensions. That’s 63% off our standard price!

And what’s more, with this bundle you get a premium Magento 2 theme for free. Continue reading

Manage Magento 2 cache

Magento 2 employs backend caching at many levels within the system -- File System (default), Database, Redis and Varnish, which is used to store web pages to speed up the load processes and improve your Magento 2 site performance.

In this post, we are going to introduce a couple of handy CLI (Command Line Interface) commands -- one of the simplest methods to manage your Magento 2 cache. We will also make a short overview of Magento 2’s default cache backend solution -- file system; the difference between cache:flush vs. cache:clean.

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UB One Step Checkout for Magento 2

We just pushed version 1.0.2 stable out for our [M2] UB One Step Checkout extension.

This new release adds the Delivery Date & Time functionality, House Security Code, enhanced Delivery Note to the core. Let’s dive in to learn in more details.

Let customers select preferred delivery date and time

With the new delivery date & time functionality in UB One Step Checkout ver 1.0.2, you -- as a Magento store owner -- can set allowable days for order and create multiple time ranges for delivery. For instance, your online grocery shops just do delivery on Monday to Friday, then you want your customers not to select the weekends which you can not deliver. Under this circumstance, you simply enables only the required delivery days and unselect the weekends.

Magento 2 Delivery Date and Time

Create multiple delivery slots for each day of the week

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7 Magento Checkout tips

Building a frictionless checkout is a must, and is something that takes time and a lot of consideration. The Baymard Institute found that almost 28% of people abandon the checkout cart due to a long or complicated checkout process.

There has been a number of ways to reduce such shopping cart abandonment rate for your Magento store, and this has a huge amount to bear in mind depending on the checkout solution you choose.

UB One Step Checkout is a great alternative for native Magento 2 checkout that does the heavy lifting for you to prepare a clean and optimized one-step checkout solution.

Here are the top 7 simple features of UB One Step Checkout extension that can help to pump-up your checkout page, improved experience and less stress mean an increase in conversions. Let’s take a closer look at how this is being done. Continue reading

UB One Step Checkout for Magento 2

Aug 19, 2020 Update: UB One Step Checkout v1.1.0 is fully compatible with the latest Magento 2.4.
Aug 30, 2018 Update:UB One Step Checkout version 1.0.4 released. It now allows to change product variations of the configurable products in the mini cart at the checkout page, plus other incremental updates.

July 6, 2018 Update: UB One Step Checkout version 1.0.2 Stable has been released, enhanced with Delivery Date & Time functionality, House Security Code (optional) and fully compatible with Magento 2.2.5.
May 15, 2018 Update: GeoIP2 API integration is now available in UB One Step Checkout. It helps detect customer address automatically based on the IP address.

Today is an exciting day for me because I get to announce the release of a brand new Magento 2 one step checkout extension at Ubertheme -- UB One Step Checkout (beta), that we have been working on for quite some time.

The Magento 1 & 2 are great for a lot of things, but building an effective one step checkout page is not one of those things. It can be downright frustrating when working with six-step accordion checkout process in Magento 1.x. Getting maximum value from the reduced two-step flow in Magento 2 can be challenging as well.

Hence, we committed to building our new UB One Step Checkout. You will get a complete checkout solution that makes it easier than ever to build a one page checkout in Magento 2. The ultimate goal is to help you maximize successful checkout transactions.

Magento 2 One Step Checkout

So what to expect from the all new UB One Step Checkout? Here are some of the cool features that will be rolled out on the initial release.

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UB One Step Checkout for Magento 2

Aug 19, 2020 Update: UB One Step Checkout v1.1.0 is fully compatible with the latest Magento 2.4.

Over the past 5 months we have been hard at work building an all new Magento 2 extension at Ubertheme.

Today we are introducing a sneak peek the UB One Step Checkout, a modern Magento 2 checkout extension that helps you place all checkout steps on one page with easier configuration.

With UB One Step Checkout, we set a new milestone in our goal to create powerful yet simple solution for buiding your Magento 2 stores. So what to expect from UB One Step Checkout in the coming weeks?

Give it a look.

Magento 2 One Step Checkout

Here is a glimpse at what we have been working on: Continue reading

migrate customer passwords

Customer data is one of the most important elements -- especially when migrating from Magento 1 to Magento 2. What if the transfer doesn’t go smoothly? In eCommerce one of the worst scenarios is that the migrated customers may be unable to log in to the new Magento 2 instance.

Getting started with the customer data migration can be intimidating, but with a right migration tool, the process isn’t as hard as it seems. Fortunately, our UB Data Migration tool makes this very simple.

If you’re considering our migration tool, we have done the hard work for you and figured out how to automatically migrate customer logins and passwords to Magento 2 with ease. In this article, I’ll briefly go through the important change in the way Magento 2 store passwords, how to migrate only customer logins and passwords using UB Data Migration tool, and possible post-migration login issues as well. Continue reading