Magento merchants meet a host of various issues everyday, from data gathering and analyzing, SEO, UX, 3rd party services, and server configuration. In order to help sort out some of the confusion, we’ve created an internal knowledge base with the most useful tips for best E-commerce practices. Most of them are intended for Magento specific platforms, but we have a few tips that can be applied to any others as well.
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You can face a needing of wishlists import after importing customers data to Magento. The way I did this is the simplest one but it requires manual “copy/paste” actions. Step1. Data preparation. It is the most difficult point of importing process. It can happen that data were stored without validations and there are lots of…
Hi there! I’ve collected links that can be useful for Magento coders. I’ve got them on MageConf 2017. The first day of the conference was dedicated to a bug (issues) fix Magento. These issues are located on Github (Magento 2 issues). If you want to be assigned to the certain bug you have to put…
The task was to set e-mail addresses export from the service with the help of Webhook to the client’s CRM via API. Webhook allows transporting some data while the determined event takes place. From the technical point of view, Webhook is a post-request to the certain URL that is set for a proper data acceptance….
It happens that there is a piece of code in some blocks or others objects that looks like this: $this->__(‘Sorry, no quotes are available for order %s at this time.’, $orderId); This is a localization method accepted everywhere in the framework. But does it work? 1. Method__() is specified in Mage_Core_Block_Abstract class (the base class…
Different test or debug operations require an installation of several websites configuration on a local server. The most popular example is dev website where all testing operations take place. My main website is set on the local address http://localhost.com/mage1911 (I use the variant with a path because it is a little bit harder than usage…
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…
In this post I tried to write a little about base module structure, how to use module’s files and include some custom cases. – Which codepool is better for custom module? 1. If you need to create some new functionality and then share it in magento community, put the module in app/code/community. It is better…
I decided to learn and understand the way magento reads and generates layout xml files. I used some articles and the debbuging of code. I wrote some moments, which I found interesting and important for understanding magento working with layouts during my debbuging. As an example I used checkout/cart page and I had already installed…
I created custom module, which adds a button to product edit page. When I log in to admin panel as a user, who has ‘Administrators’ role, I can use the button without any problems. But I need to create a new role with some limited rights and to add it to a new user. Then…