We are happy to announce that the Advanced Newsletter User Guide is available for downloading now! The User Guide is intended for the Advanced Newsletter extension users as well as for those who only planning to purchase this aheadWorks software.

This User Manual aims to explain in layman’s terms how Advanced Newsletter works. It introduces you to the software settings and gives you detailed and illustrated description of the following aspects:

• Advanced Newsletter configuration
  This Guide will help you to escape any difficulties while setting up the Advanced Newsletter extension.
• Managing segments
  Find out how to add new segments and edit the existing ones. From this section you will learn how the default subscription works as well.
• SMTP configuration
  The User Guide describes how to create and configure a third party SMTP server.
• Auto-managing rules
  If you don’t know how to set up auto-managing rules, this section is exactly what is worth reading.
• Managing subscribers
  Learn how to edit, add new and synchronize your subscribers with MailChimp.
• Customer’s subscriptions
  With this section you will be able to look at the extension work from customers’ point of view.

Download the Advanced Newsletter User Guide right now from the extension page!

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The latest version of the Z-Blocks extension makes the list of block position types more structured and better arranged as the types are divided into groups according to place of block displaying – Default, General, Catalog and product, Product only, Customer, Cart & Checkout.

Moreover, the ‘cart-content-top’ block position type has been divided into ‘cart-content-top’ and ‘checkout-content-top’ what gives you more flexibility while defining a position for block displaying.

With the new version of Z-Blocks you can make blocks with any position visible in certain categories as category restrictions are now applied to custom positioned blocks as well.

The following bugs have been fixed in the latest version:

• Midnight interval
• Time settings taken from server
• Category info loss when editing block content without displaying ‘Categories’ tab in the admin section
• Minor changes

Please find more information about this extension on the Z-Blocks page.

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Have you ever wanted to make your Home page more appealing and functional? Then the Home Tabs Pro extension is exactly what you are looking for! This aheadWorks software not only enriches the content of the Home page, but it also attracts your customers’ attention to Top products.

The Home Tabs Pro extension by aheadWorks is a perfect solution for those who have ever thought of broadening standard Magento Main page possibilities. The extension allows you to display most popular products at the Home page of your store in a comfortable and neat way.

At the Home page of your online store, customizable tabs display automatically generated list of top items:

• Top Sellers
  Arouse customers’ interest in most profitable products by displaying them at the main page of your site.
• Top Rated
  Make products with the highest rating get seen by website visitors.
• Most Reviewed
  Excite your consumers’ curiosity with products which gained the largest quantity of reviews.
• Just Added
  Want to capture customers’ attention to new items added to product range? Display them in the Just Added tab!
• Wishlist Top
  Intrigue your customers with items which get in customers’ wishlists most often.

Other Home Tabs Pro advantages are the software’s:

• Flexible tabs positioning
  Display tabs at the predefined position of the Home page – top or bottom. You can place tabs everywhere else on the Home page via CMS as well.



• Configurable tabs
  The appearance of tabs can be configured from user-friendly admin interface where you can define title for tabs, displaying order, quantity of products displayed in the tab, the way of products displaying – grid

  

  or list



• AJAX loader customization
  You can specify what customers will see while tabs loading – define the text or upload an image.

With Home Tabs Pro you also gain easy set up, trusted aheadWorks product quality and support:

• Easy 2-minute installation
• 100% open source
• 30 day money back – satisfaction guaranteed
• Lifetime bug free guarantee
• Meets Magento programming practices for most versions and customizations compatibility
• Free upgrades at least in current version branch
• Our excellent support team is waiting to hear from you each business day from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm GMT

Please find more information on the Home Tabs Pro page.

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The changes taken place in this minor release have mainly touched upon the external view of the Automatic Product Callouts block – its vertical and horizontal displaying has been improved and now the block doesn’t differ anyhow from other native Magento blocks.

One more enhancement making the Automatic Product Callouts extension more flexible for configuration and eye-catching for customers is a new item_height variable which allows you to specify the height of the items displayed in the Automatic Product Callouts block and make the block exactly corresponding to your store peculiarities.

You can find more precise list of extension’s features and try how the extension works so as if it has been installed on your computer from the Automatic Product Callouts page.

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Product Questions has become even more feature-rich extension than before. A bulk of new options considerably broaden the software functionality – now you can allow or forbid guests to ask questions and vote helpfulness, limit the number of questions displayed on the Product Page, send auto-responding notifications to customers and much more!

The latest version of the Product Questions extension offers the following new features:

For you

SEO-friendly URLs
Improve your website’s search results ranking with the Product Questions extension!

Disable “Ask a question” form for guests
Don’t want guests to ask questions about your products? Disable this option from admin panel and define a message asking unregistered customers for example to log in or create an account (links are available in the message).

New pre-defined variables for email template
The range of pre-defined variables has been considerably increased – now you can define more objects for email template.

Parse URLs into links when admin replies
The new version of this aheadWorks extension allows you to use in your replies not only URLs but parse them into links as well.

Spam protection
Simple spam protection can secure you from losing time on unwanted messages processing.

Disable helpfulness rating for guests
Product Questions allows you to enable/disable the opportunity of voting question helpfulness for guests.

Limit the number of questions on the Product Page
Show last X questions when displaying Product Questions block on Product page.

Send auto-responding notifications to customers
Immediately provide necessary information to your customers or let them know that you will get back to them at preset time intervals. Anyhow auto-responder option reduces your time and heightens customers’ loyalty.

Multistore support
You can find out from which store the question has been asked.

Magento v.1.4.0.0 compatibility
The extension is now officially compatible with Magento 1.4.0.0

For your customers

RSS feed
Allow your customers to subscribe to a feed and always be in the swim

Question sorting by date and helpfulness
Convenient sorting allows visitors to display the latest or less helpful product questions.

Ability to get subscribed to newsletter from the “Ask a question” form
The Product Questions extension lets your customers to get subscribed to a newsletter directly from the “Ask a question” form – just specify whether it will be standard Magento newsletter or the Advanced Newsletter extension by aheadWorks.

The following bugs have been fixed in Product Questions v.1.3:

• Short tags in templates
• ‘aw_’ prefix added to table name
• Module disabling from backend fix
• Minor changes

Please find more information on the Product Questions page.

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Custom SMTP is a must-have extension both for store administrators and developers. It makes you no longer dependent on your local server mailing software.

Now YOU define whether to send emails from custom SMTP server, localhost or don’t send them at all.

We regularly use the Custom SMTP extension in our work and can assert with competence that intuitive and user-friendly interface of the Custom SMTP extension allows you to spend no more than 1 minute to set up the software and send emails from any server you require.

With Custom SMTP flexible settings you can configure the extension in such a way that emails won’t be sent but you will be able to view them exactly from mail log in admin panel.

Custom SMTP by aheadWorks is an irreplaceable and indispensable tool for developers which offers you the following useful features:

• Custom SMTP server usage
• Custom port, authorization type, secure protocols support
• Log of all outgoing emails



• Possibility to view any outgoing email

With Custom SMTP you also gain:

• Easy 2-minute installation
• 100% open source
• 30 day money back – satisfaction guaranteed
• Lifetime bug free guarantee
• Meets Magento programming practices for most versions and customizations compatibility
• Free upgrades at least in current version branch
• Our excellent support team is waiting to hear from you each business day from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm GMT

If you need more information, please visit the Custom SMTP page.

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You’ve spent a lot of time and energy building your customer base and establishing a solid reputation. When you want to take your game to the next level, it’s important to partner with leaders you can trust. That’s why we’ve launched two new services – our Custom Development (Standard Package) and Custom Development (Light Package).

Each package is 100% customized to help you reach your goals and speed ahead of the competition! You’ll work with our team of experts to make your website a unique experience for every visitor. We’ll also assist you in personalizing your store from the “back end” to make it as efficient and powerful as possible.

As a special “thank you”, we’re giving a lifetime discount of 35% on all our products when you invest in our Light Package and a whopping 50% lifetime discount when you choose our Standard Package. It’s our way of further helping you reach your goals affordably and effectively.

There are tons of storefronts in cyberspace… make sure yours is the “one in a million” that attracts customers again and again! Contact aheadWorks for a customized quote on our development packages today!

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This minor release makes the Automatic Related Products extension from aheadWorks not only compatible with Magento v.1.4.0.0 but more flexible for configuration. Now you can specify more precise rules for automatic displaying of related products as the software allows you to define to which price type – Regular Price, Special Price or Final Price – the Price condition will be applied.

Besides the following minor bugs have fixed in the latest version:

• Url rewrite doesn’t work
• No related products on direct product page
• Product in several directories

Please, find more information about Automatic Related Products on the extension page.

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To make the Advanced Reports extension compatible with recently released Magento v.1.4, we refused the idea of making any modifications in native Magento reports and have left them unaffected in the new version of Advanced Reports – reporting period range is not accessible in native reports anymore.

At the same time, one more advanced report has been implemented during the extension upgrading – the Sales report. This report type is the enhanced version of Magento Sales Report which allows you to display sales data on the chart and set up the pre-defined reporting period range.

Besides the New vs. Returning Customers unit for the Advanced Reports extension has undergone several changes. The unit has become not only absolutely compatible with Magento v.1.4, but it has become more informative – the percentage of new and returning customers is now automatically calculated and displayed as well.

Interested? Find more information about the extension and unit on the Advanced Reports page.

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Enhance your store navigation and avoid additional pages loading with the Previous/Next extension from aheadWorks! Now your customers can shift from one Product page to another with 1 click of the Next or Previous link!

The Previous/Next extension greatly improves your online store usability and makes your store navigation more convenient than you could even imagine. Forget about the necessity to come back to Category page every time you want to view next product. Now you can navigate between Product pages with just one click – the extension adds 3 controls which allow you to visit next/previous Product page or come back to the Category page only when YOU want!

Features:

Intuitive navigation

The Previous, Back, Next controls let you navigate between Product pages with just 1 click and come back to Category page only when it is required.

Configurable controls

• With a possibility to use predefined variables you can use not only text for controls but also product and category names. Just insert the #PRODUCT# or #CATEGORY# variable in the link text and the required product or category name will be displayed automatically

• Don’t want to use text for the link? Upload any image which will be displayed instead

• Loop previous/next product name and Product pages will be displayed in cyclic order
• Product or category names are too long to be displayed properly? Truncate them to the length you want and use three dots or any ending you like after the truncated name

2-ways navigation

You can navigate between Product pages either clicking Previous/Back/Next controls or using keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+left, ctrl+up, ctrl+right).

Customizable links position

The Previous/Next extension allows you to place controls anywhere on the page.

Easy set up, trusted aheadWorks product quality and support

• Easy 2-minute installation
• 100% open source
• 30 day money back – satisfaction guaranteed
• Lifetime bug free guarantee
• Meets Magento programming practices for most versions and customizations compatibility
• Free upgrades at least in current version branch
• Our excellent support team is waiting to hear from you each business day from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm GMT

To find more information about Previous/Next, please visit the extension page.

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