Review of Prestashop 1.7.6.0. What's new?

As usual, the new version fixed bugs from previous versions, continued to improve the quality of the code and the performance of the system. The transition to Symfony also continued.

Since this version, the design of the mailing has changed (optimized for mobile devices), there were:

Became:

Improved display of prices (goods, shipping, taxes, etc.) at all stages of the purchase.

There is a new menu profile with direct access to resources (documentation, training, agencies, help center…):

There is a new version of the product comment module with support for Rich snippets – extended descriptions for search results: The module works only for prestashop versions since 1.7.6.0.

The module is free and is a continuation of the prestashop 1.6.x module. It has similar functionality for both becophys and front-end.

Stages of commenting on goods:

General view of the product card with comments for the default topic:

The new version of prestashop 1.7.6 has also improved search when sorting and filtering on the category page and displaying the list of products.

Also, improvements were made to:
– catalog mode (enable-disable the display of product prices),
– management in the currency subsystem,
– SEO for products with combinations.

For the back office, the changes affected the management and preview of emails directly from the Email Template page.

As well as a dynamic preview of the result in search engines when editing data for the product card, category pages and CMS content:

New hooks have also been introduced, some of them:
– displayProductActions (product card)
– displayPersonalInformationTop (Checkout process, before the buyer authorization form)

These are the major visible changes and improvements for this version.