The 38th release of Site Store Pro has been posted and is available for immediate download. If you have previously registered or purchased the cart, the download will be in your account manager. If you have not downloaded Site Store Pro before, click here to register and download your copy. The following updates and new features are included in this completely new version:

• Updated Shop-By-Styles Home Page Display For Better Mobile Compaibility and Cleaner Display
• Updated Lightbox 2 plugin to remove additional Jquery declaration for better compatibiity and smaller load size.
• Updated CMS and Search results page CSS to allow full-height columns and a more consistent display experience across different devices. (FlexBox)
• Updated results header breadcrumb links to post back to same URL format as origin (querystring or SEO friendly).
• Fixed issue where shipping source zip code could not be updated via admin form.
• Optimized Checkout Experience including cart status on desktop pages and streamlined mobile checkout experience.
• Entire Sample Store Has Been Optimized For Smaller Devices.
• New Feature To Allow Left Navigation Plugin Usage On CMS Pages And Item View Pages (Not Only The Catalog (Store) Results Page)
• New Dynamic Top Navigation Plugin Including "Cached Copy" Featured For High-Traffic / Large Stores.
• New Home Page Image Plugin Feature to Display Sectional Images With URL Target, Background and Custom CSS.
• New Home Page Items Scroller (JQuery Product Carousel) Plugin,
• New Site Announcement Plugin (i.e Top Site Text Banner With Direct URL Link To Content).
• New Social Media Icons (Links) Plugin.
• New Plugin-Based Footer Builder (Bootstrap Responsive) with Social Links, Payment icons and fully-editable 4 columns of footer content.
• New SEO features including Facebook (Open Graph), Google and Twitter Tags. Will Auto-populate based on product info or admin can manually add their own optimized tags content.
• New +/- QTY Selector on Details Page
• New Optional (Alternative) "Short Description" Field That Will Override Default Short Description On Details Page.
• New Add To Cart Feature On Results Page - (Ajax Add to Cart Function Without Page Reload)
• New Colapsible Filters Left Navigation Menu For Mobile Devices. (left navigation now accessible on small screen mobile devices)
• New Specials and Featured Items Overlay Icons On Results Page.
• New Canonical Feature On Item View Page to Prevent Duplicate Page Entries in Search Engine Indexes and Increase SEO.
• New Default Feature to Exclude Drill-Down Filters (QueryString Parameters) From Left Navigation Menu And Embedded Page Drill-Downs From Bot Spider To Speed Up Complete Site Indexing On Large Sites and Prevent Index Loops. (All Other Menus | Links Will Still Be Spidered For Complete Index Of All Categories and Products)

Upgrade instructions:

Before performing an upgrade, make a backup of both your /sitestorepro/  and /estore_admin/ folders as well as you store MySQL database. To upgrade your current install, download the new installation zip file package from your account manager, extract the contents of the zip file to your desktop and then upload the folders inside the "Upgrade" folder (/sitestorepro/ and /estore_admin) up to your hosting account or server. Note: The new version will only update installs with a version ending in "i". If your shopping cart was installed prior to January 2015 or does not end with a "i", you will need to upgrade to our mysqli platform before applying the new version. If you need assistance with the upgrade process or would like our team to upgrade your install(s), please submit a support ticket. IMPORTANT : Unlike most of our past cart upgrades that do not affect an existing site design, this upgrade does require a minor addition to an existing CSS file in order to support some of the new flexbox features. After uploading the /sitestorepro/ and /estore_admin/ folders to your server, open up your current /css/site_store_pro_responsive.css file:

Replace the following css code:

/* CSS File ALL STORE FILES */ #left_navigation { float: left; visibility: visible; margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; padding-left: 15px; width: 250px; } @media (min-width: 1200px) { #left_navigation { visibility:visible;} } @media (max-width: 1199px) { #left_navigation { width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; visibility:hidden;} } /* LEFT NAV FORMATTING */  

With the new (updated) CSS rules below..

/* CSS File ALL STORE FILES */ .sspro_2017_content_container { display: -ms-flex; display: -webkit-flex; display: flex; } .sspro_2017_content_container > div { width: 276px; padding: 8px; margin-bottom: 7px; } .sspro_2017_content_container > div:first-child { margin-right: 25px; } #left_navigation { width: 275px; height: 100%; background-color: #1F1F1F; margin-top: 6px; } #sspro_order_summary { background-color: #606060; border-left: 1px solid #ccc; } #filters_button { display: none; } @media (min-width: 1200px) { #left_navigation {} } @media (max-width: 1199px) { #left_navigation {display: none;} .sspro_2017_content_container > div {width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; } .sspro_2017_content_container > div:first-child { margin-left: -20px; } #filters_button { display: inline; } } /* LEFT NAV FORMATTING */