The best way to implement the order change on the tabs that are displayed on magento’s product page is by extending the product page layout and changing the sort_order attribute for the tab block you want to move. In your theme’s folder (design/frontend/Theme_Vendor/Theme_Name) add (or append to) the file catalog_product_view.xml under the folder Magento_Catalog/layout. Is you already have that file[…]
Read moreMagento offers the possibility of running in one of 3 different modes: default, developer and production. Each of these was design to fit a specific scenario and purpose. Default more The default mode is the default :). If you just installed magento it will be running in this mode. Default mode is a sort of hybrid mode between developer and[…]
Read more
It is frequent to have requests from customers wanting to place blocks in totally different places in desktop and mobile. This type of requests do not fit the usual block placement using magento’s layout xml files. So, how can this be solved? #1 Duplicate the block and hide one when on mobile/desktop using CSS rules This is really not the[…]
Read more
If you want to show the totals section when you first go to the default checkout in your magento 2 website you need to extend the abstract-total object defined in the Magento_Checkout/js/view/summary/abstract-total.js file. The function isFullMode needs to be replaced by a custom function that avoids not showing the total section in the shipping step. Basically the last statement on[…]
Read more
Recently I had a request from a customer asking to randomize the product listing in all the categories. The goal was to give the illusion of “freshness” or frequent changes in the categories. To achieve this the product collection created when a category is called needed to be sorted in a random order. I created an extension to override the[…]
Read more
One common mistake that many newcomers developers make is when deploying static content. Magento 2 typical command to deploy static content is However, there is an important aspect to take into account. The above command uses the default options. This means that only the en_US language is deployed. If you site is using other locales you must explicitly deploy the[…]
Read more
Like any other dynamic website a Magento web store is made of a database and files. To create a full backup of the store (either for security reasons or to migrate to another server) you will need to export your database and save all files under the magento root directly. There are many ways to accomplish this but my personal[…]
Read more
If you have a server with low memory resources you are probably familiar with the error “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of XXX bytes exhausted…” when you attempt to run a php cli command or composer. Running php commands Of course you can circumvent this by changing your php configuration files (either the main or local php.ini). However this is[…]
Read more
A few things have changed with the release of magento 2.4 in terms of the installation process. Although you can still download a zip file and upload to your server, the recommended way for most situations is now to use composer.
Read more
When you install magento 2.4 you are forced to configure Two-Factor Authorization in order to login to your admin area. Although this is a must wanted feature to improve your magento security, it can be a real pain when you are in the development stage of your website. To disable this requirement run the following commands on the command line:[…]
Read more