There are no doubts that user-friendly design is the key to an excellent shopping experience. Horizontal Layered Navigation is one of the best features that help customers to filter the desired items in an easy and fast way. Today I want to share my experience in implementing Horizontal Layered Navigation in Magento 2. Horizontal Layered…
I had to do a custom mini cart in Magento 2 to make it match the requirements of our client. Magento 2 mini cart bases on HTML-template loaded and filled by the Knockout js-library. This task is quite complicated, especially for the beginners who haven’t got enough Magento 2 expertise. That’s why I decided to share with…
Magento Contribution Day was conducted perfectly. The main topic of the event was addressed to the procedure of merge requests creation and to the knowledge mastering in real conditions. The task was to fix several confirmed code issues in the list on https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues. Participants of the Contribution Day were allowed to work with any issue…
I’ve got the task to cut the width of the standard scrollbar to the minimum in the horizontal layered navigation that I made before. For this purpose I plugged jQuery extension called JScrollPane. You have to use these 3 files to plug the extension: jquery.jscrollpane.css (style file) jquery.jscrollpane.min.js (the extension file) jquery.mousewheel.js (add-on file for…
Algolia extension installation on Magento 2: full instruction is on the official developer website. You can find information about several peculiarities of Algolia search that will make the process of styles customization easier. When the first symbol is typed in the search line, dropdown with results appears. If you try to inspect the style of…
The task was to add the extension’s elements to the standard authorization popup on Magento 2. The developers made it easy to do by adding their own component “social-buttons” into the list of embedded elements of the component “authenticationPopup” which is sent to the “authentication-popup” block’s constructor. The block “authentication-popup” and its element “authenticationPopup” appears…
First of all, LAMP or LNMP programming packages should be installed according to the system requirements of Magento 1.x and Magento 2.0. If you have no idea what kind of packages it is, open Google and search for it (you’ll also learn how to install it). But be careful. It is likely that you’ll find…
So, the question is about gathering certain products from other categories, and putting them in some special category at the very moment customer starts to open that special category. As example, I can suggest a category with a list of new products (based on attributes “New from Date” and “New to Date”). This category will…
Recently I tried to customize mage.SwatchRenderer widget, and was unpleasantly surprised by the frustrating lack of documentation on this topic, and by some changes, mage by Magento2 developers in Magento_Swatches module . I am a newbie in Magento2, and now, when I finally managed to make all needed customizations, I want to share my experience with other newbies. I…
It is not good to simply remove outdated products from the shop, because somewhere at the web links could exist, pointing to the removed product page. After product removal, all such links will point to the 404 error page, and many chances are that potential customers will just close such page without trying to inspect…