Magento is a powerful system for modern e-commerce websites and as any system with wide range of features, it isn’t easy to masterate it. There is no any comprehensive manual, that will build a strong knowledge of all Magento coding aspects. But the problems that newcomers face with the system aren’t unique – every Magento developer has to overcome the same challenges that other developers did.
Initially, we’ve created this blog to build our internal knowledge base. But we understood that sharing information not only helps others but also helps us to get feedbacks and master our own skills. That’s why we decided to open the blog for all Magento developers on the web and build a roadmap for Magento beginners. Here you’ll find base Magento knowledge, coding tips, the examples of chosen solutions for complex problems, a new approach to popular tasks, and other useful information.
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The Algoliasearch module of Algolia team provides very useful features for building a user-level interface for highly loaded sites. The profit of the functionality consists of two parts: the capabilities of browser module scripts and the use of the Algolia server for storing data. The category page with the Instant search feature turned on reacting…
Backup/Restore usually means lots of different operations, for example, creating a DB file for a further complete restoring. This action helps when the DB has some critical failure, but it isn’t usable in most others cases. Due to the events that take place between the moment of backup making and the moment of restoring, some…
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…
The task was to add horizontal layered navigation on the category pages above the list of products. Every option in the filter has to be made as a column with scrolling option. The element “div.sidebar.main” containing filters locates under the element “main” containing the products in Magento 2. Swap them at first. Add a xml-…
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…
I had to do light mini cart customizations to make it match the requirements. The challenge was that mini cart in Magento 2 is based on HTML-template loaded and filled by the js-library Knockout. For a newbie that doesn’t have enough experience in working with Magento 2, this task is quite complicated. Magento 2 mini…
I had a project with a branch called “develop”. I had a task to create custom theme inherited from the luma theme. I created a new branch for it and switched to the branch I’ve just created. Everything was working fine and I delivered the files of my custom theme to the dev server. I…
I have found the way to send e-mails via Gmail. It can be done with mail() function in a console: php -r “mail(‘[email protected]’, ‘Subject’, ‘Body’);” If to call mail() via php file, e-mails won’t be sent and it means that Magento won’t send anything. Installing and setting up Sendmail Check if it wasn’t installed before…
Magento Page Speed optimization Magento page speed can be optimized with Cloudflare. It caches and minimizes js/CSS/images and delivers the content from the nearest server. Use Lesti_merge for Magento to merge JS via tags. That will make files smaller and faster. Use Google PageSpeed module for Nginx and Apache. It can make pages 3 times…
The developers at Magento Contribution Day recommended running unit tests before code deploying. The reasons are: it saves lots of time while testing and the quality of code becomes better. The code will be without errors or errors will be expected. Every function will work no matter what returning data type it receives. It knows…
There are several reasons for moving Magento online store to https: user’s information protection; SEO (Google ranks https sites better); website protection. Everything seems to be great, your website will only benefit from moving to https from different point of views. But the crawler doesn’t know by default that http://example.com and https://example.com are the same…