Prestashop 1.7.6 Features – Highlight Features & Enhancements You Need

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I. What is the Changes in PrestaShop 1.7.6:

Here is 1.7.6 in numbers:

• 748 merged Pull Requests (vs 210 in 1.7.3, 260 in 1.7.4 and 448 in 1.7.5)
• 7349 files changed (294661 insertions, 107638 deletions)
• 4431 commits merged
• 249 issues fixed
• 108 people contributed, including 60 new contributors!

II. What is New Features in PrestaShop 1.7.6:

1. Front Office Changes:

In any new version, your store can be updated with all new improvement, bugs fixed, new features for both experience for customers & store owners. So PrestaShop 1.7.6 is. It brings a lot of powerful features for your store.

• New design for Email Template
• Display of the price details (product price, shipping, taxes, etc.) at all key stages of the purchasing process to improve customer reassurance and conversions.
• New profile menu with direct access to resources (documentation, training, agencies, help center)
• Updated version of the Product Comments module, with rich snippets.
• Price Slider
• Hide Price
• Adding custom currencies
• Support SEO Optimization for products with combinations

2. Back Offices Changes:

• Manage and preview your transactional emails directly from a new back-office page: Email Theme.
• Get both tax included and excluded prices for each product.
• New helper cards have been added on important pages as Categories, Customers, Pages, Employees
• Support Search Engine Results Preview for Pages: Product page, Categories, CMS
• Improved translation system for multilingual modules.
• The design section of the back office has been reworked. Overview of all design features (RTL, logos, favicon and theme) and manage them the way you want.
• Better Mobile Optimization Backoffice Administration.

III. Major Bugs Fixed in PrestaShop 1.7.6:

• Checkout used to proceed automatically from carrier selection to payment selection
• Enhanced security checks for virtual good
• We fixed a longtime bug that was creating an error in discount calculation when adding a cart rule in a cart containing only virtual product.
• In the meantime, we also fixed a bug on carrier price calculation. Price is now calculated on the real order price and not the one including after a discount is applied
• DNI fields is now forced only for countries which require it>
• Fixed the minimum order in the second currency bug – fixed by the community

Core

• Fixed in the Autoupgrade module

IV. Technical improvements

• Available nightly builds and nightly board
• Manage legacy translations of modules as well as symfony modules at translation Manager of Back Office
• Added support for Doctrine Entities in modules (both Front and Back-office)
• Price computation is now covered by Integration tests powered by Behat (human-readable tests)
• New mail template system based on Twig, along with a new generation system which avoids downloading all the mail templates; will allow easier customization in the future versions
• New CLDR standard implementation: improved localization of prices and amounts, will allow creating custom currencies in future versions
• Support for multiple grids on the same page
• Performance:
  • Improved employee authorization process
  • Cache introduced when loading modules
  • The number of SQL requests to get the employee authorizations has been significantly reduced
• Web services:
  • Product customization is now reachable
  • Product combination information in Pack content is now available

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
  • actionGetMailThemeFolder
  • actionBuildLayoutVariables
  • actionGetMailLayoutTransformations

See all hooks in the DevDocs

Improved hooks

• actionProductAdd now receives id_product_old when duplicating a product