Varnish and Magento 2 go together like Strawberries and Cream – you just cannot have one without the other. Recently I got really confused about the correct way to configure…Continue reading
Magento 2 Asynchronous Message Queue Management with RabbitMQ
The Magento Message Queue Framework was made available in the Open Source version of Magento with version 2.3 and provides a standards based system for modules to publish messages to…Continue reading
Magento 2 Custom Customer Registration Checkbox and Text Attributes
I spent many hours recently trying to figure out why a custom Magento 2 customer registration attribute was not working only to find that a relatively simple mistake was the…Continue reading
How to Improve Magento 2 ElasticSearch Catalog Search Results and Relevance
TL;DR Migrating the Magento 2 catalog search engine to Smile ElasticSuite will resolve pretty much all the issues you might be experiencing with Magento 2 native ElasticSearch catalog search so…Continue reading
Improve Slow Loading Magento 2 Large Configurable Products
Configurable products have changed a lot in Magento 2. Compared to Magento 1, Magento 2 configurable products are just containers for simple products (variations). You can no longer configure pricing…Continue reading
Magento 2 Custom Dynamic Maintenance Page with NGINX
I was working on my procedures for applying updates to a production Magento 2 site recently and decided it was a pretty good idea to put Magento into maintenance mode…Continue reading
Magento 2 Javascript Bundling with Magepack
Magento 2 PageSpeed (Lighthouse) performance audit results for mobile and desktop are notoriously bad. Imagine you have worked for months on a new Magento 2 eCommerce store, followed best practices…Continue reading
Exporting Magento 1 Product Reviews and Importing them to Magento 2
I am Migrating Magento 1.9 to 2.3 – yikes! I wasn’t able to use the Magento 2 migration tool for products so one of the tasks on my TO DO…Continue reading
Create Custom Product Attributes and Groups in Magento 2
Whilst migrating from Magento 1 to Magento 2 you might want to quickly recreate product attributes in Magento 2 programatically. Adding a lot of product attributes manually can be very…Continue reading
Magento 2.2.X Development and Upgrades
Today (2nd May 2018) Magento released Magento CE 2.2.4. Recently the Magento Devs have been pretty busy pushing out 2.2.x updates and Magento 2 is maturing nicely. I am still…Continue reading