Development tips about magento 2
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[…]
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Let me just start by saying that you should ALWAYS use a child theme when you are doing customizations rather than implementing all changes in the parent theme. The reason for that is to avoid losing those customization whenever you upgrade your theme. Having said that sometimes you find that the custom changes you made on that child theme are[…]
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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[…]
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Everyday I have customers asking advice about themes for their magento web store. To help them on that decision I decided to write this post reviewing what I consider to be the best themes in the market. There are several important aspect to be taken into account when choosing a theme: Update frequency: always check if the last update has[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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After several years working with magento 1 and now 2 I gathered a list of the top magento 2 extensions that I use all the time. I decided to compile them into this best extensions list to help you maximize your magento 2 web store. This list include extensions to improve customer experience but also to increase your productivity running[…]
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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[…]
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Firegento has a very useful extension, called MageSetup, that helps you to configure you magento webstore for several european markets. It automatically performs several adjustments to the shop’s configuration taking out the burden to do them manually. These adjustments include taxes (rules and rates), terms and conditions and shipping information.
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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.
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