New 3.21 Release of our plugins and themes

Thursday, January 23, 2014

During the holidays our development team managed to add some new cool features to our products.

Here is a list of the most interesting new features we have added to our products since our last major release in December.

Brand new responsive approach on mobile devices.
Ajax Filters are easily accessible from the top menu on the category, manufacturer and vendor pages.
Category navigation is easily accessible from the top menu on mobile devices.
My account, shopping cart and search are also accessible from the top menu on mobile devices.

Ajax Filters - Note: After the update you need to uninstall and then install the Ajax Filters plugin again.

Vendor page support added. You can use the Ajax Filters on a Vendor page.
Vendor filtering option added. You can also filter the products by their vendor on the category and manufacturer pages.
Fix - featured products were included in the filters on a manufacturer page regardless of the "includefeaturedproductsinnormallist" setting in nopCommerce.
Fix - click on filter items did not work in IE8

Added 3 separate settings for overriding the default metadata for products, categories and manufactures. For example, if you have some default metadata for your categories and you don't want to override it by any seo template then you can simply check the Do Not Override Default Category Meta Data setting in the adminsitration of the SEO plugin. The same applies to manufacturers and products as there are 3 separate settings now.

Birthday reminder fix for not sending birthday reminders.
Added a new %Customer.RewardPoints% token to the Order Completed reminder
Updated the documentation with example settings for the various reminders.
Fix - edit customer link was not working if nopCommerce is running in virtual directory.

Added a "custom-tab" css class to all custom tabs, so that they can be styled separately if needed.

Category search added as a setting from the administration. You can switch it on/off from the plugin administration.
The new feature is styled for all our themes and has RTL support as well.

Thank you to all of you who voted for this very cool feature in our UserVoice portal. You can see the category search in action on our Lighthouse theme demo store.

Touch support added. Now you can easily swipe the carousel items on mobile devices.
Fixed the updating of the Display Order value for the additional manufacturers and additional categories.
Fix - added check if the product, category or manufacturer is not deleted and is published.

Vendors support added. Now you can show vendors just like manufacturers in the Mega Menu.
Some refactoring to the mega menu javascript.

Added a FreeShipping condition type. Now you can easily put ribbons on products with free shipping in your store.
Added a HasSpecialPrice condition type. Now you can know which products have special price and add a ribbon to them.
Added new token - ${special-price-expires-in} which shows the time left until the expiration of the special price. The token is formatted to show days, hours, minutes, seconds i.e. 2 days; 15 hours etc.
Fix - search engine site crawlers were trying to open an action fro the ribbons causeing errors in the Log.

Touch support added for all sliders - Nivo, 2D and 3D. Now on a mobile device you can easily swipe the slider images.
Fix - caching issue in multi-store environment.