PrestaShop 1.7.6 release is one of biggest yet since the year for the PrestaShop community. The new version has promised to improve PrestaShop in multiple ways including a better highlight of the products, increase the engagement of the users and reach a wider audience. As a result, stores would be able to deliver a higher level of services to their customers.
Highlights
New features & modules
- Product Comments module, with rich snippets (1.7.6+ versions)
- The watermark module
- Fully refactored faceted search module (1.7.1+ versions)
- New design for transactional emails
- New profile menu with direct access to resources
- New Design section for Theme & Logo
- Improved Catalog mode: for showcase websites, you can now choose to display or to hide product prices
- Improved currency management subsystem. This is the basis to allow more customization in the next versions,
adding custom currencies for example - Improved SEO for products with combinations
- Improved translation system for multilingual modules
New hooks
- displayProductActions (Product page, close to the “Add to cart” button)
- displayPersonalInformationTop (Checkout funnel, before the customer login form)
- additionalCustomerAddressFields (In CustomerAddressFormatter)
- actionProductFlagsModifier (Allows to customize product flags)
- Form hooks
- Kpi hooks
- Mail generator hooks
- actionListMailThemes
- actionBuildLayoutVariables
- actionGetMailLayoutTransformations
Notable Improvements & Bug fixes
- Filtered out registered hooks in module positions list
- Allowed BO hooks to use the method $this->render()
- Updated dependencies with security breaches
- Fixd backoffice translations for third-party modules
- Fixed Categories grid filtering by position
- Fixed right side block of attribute and attribute groups in combination tab not appearing
- Fixed BO scaling in mobile
- Fixed shipping cost becoming free if more than a half or available quantity ordered
So, Now that you have understood what’s there in the latest version of PrestaShop 1.7.6? Download PrestaShop 1.7.6.0 now!
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May 6, 2020 at 3:26 pm
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