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.
We do code for business. It means that we pay attention also for the time that the developer needs to spend on the code creation and implementation. No code masterpieces reuqired from our tem – just optimal, clean code, that takes into account performance and connected extensions.
I love coding very much. It is always a pleasure to see a hard task done. As you can understand, I’m a result-oriented person and it helps me in my daily work, but it has some drawback as well. If it’s hard to achieve the goal immediately, it’s a fair ground for procrastination. Instant gratification…
There are 2 types of redirects: 301 (moved permanently) and 302 (moved temporary). You will need to set 301 response when: moving to https changing URLs structure moving to another domain/subdomain You can find settings for 301 redirect in Magento at Catalog > URL Rewrite press Add URL Rewrite. On the opened page choose Create URL…
Simple products’ stock management is a trivial process, all settings can be specified in the fields of the table cataloginventory_stock_item (quantity of product is stored in the qty field, the is_in_stock field is used for the availability value). These data are used for forming stock_status in the tab cataloginventory_stock_item_status during the process of reindexing. Some configuration’s values…
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…
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…