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How to Customize Default Store Messages in Magento
Displaying messages is an important way to communicate with your customers when they visit your magento store: a welcome message to greet customers; a success message to notify customers when they successfully submitted a form; an error message to inform customers if something goes wrong…Magento has many such messages ready for you to use, but […]
How to Plan Your Timeline for a Magento 2 Migration
Since the introduction of Magento 2, thousands of articles have been written about the technical details of migrating from Magento 1 to Magento 2. On one level, this is understandable. Because Magento is an open source platform, the Magento community has developed a thriving and extensive marketplace, offering customized extensions and creative solutions for just […]
Magento Imagine 2017 Recap
Another Magento Imagine has come and gone and man was it fun to see some of our colleagues, clients, and friends again! Between the great breakout sessions, networking events, and organic conversations we had a great time. Here are a few takeaways from the event. Partners Summit Meeting The big news is November 2018 = […]
Fixing Scheduled Magento Enterprise Promotion Banners That Don’t Show Up
One feature that attracts merchants to Magento Enterprise is the CMS content known as Banners. Using this feature allows for adding content and promos to the store’s homepage or category pages on a schedule. The merchant can schedule the promotion to show up on and be removed from the website during certain dates or even […]
Magento Coding Standards and Code Review in The Real World
“Code review is systematic examination … of computer source code. It is intended to find mistakes overlooked in the initial development phase, improving the overall quality of software.” Code review, in summary, is a collaborative process between the developer who writes the code and the developers who review the code to ensure that new code […]
How to Override / Rewrite Classes in Magento 1
Magento is one of the most powerful eCommerce platforms on the market. With it’s well-designed, open-source codebase, and modular structure, new features in Magento can be added by creating custom modules, thus providing unlimited possibilities to customize an online store. According to Ben Marks, on my personal autograph from him, editing Magento’s core code is […]
Configuring Promotion Rule Banners in Magento Enterprise
One of the best features Magento Enterprise comes with are the marketing banners that offer helpful content panels. These banners can be shown on the homepage or different landing pages on the website’s frontend. Setting them up correctly takes much effort and often without success. In this post, we will try to explain in detail how […]
How to Do Magento Unit Testing with PHP Unit
Unit testing helps developers write better and cleaner code, avoiding logical errors. When developing a large project, there are critical things that you need to keep in mind, such as the plan for project, its design, etc. All of those things are dependent on the way the code is written. Code should be well written […]
Moving Your Magento Store From HTTP to HTTPS
If you sell online and don’t have full HTTPS throughout your website, regardless of the platform, your customers are seeing or will soon begin to see warnings from browsers saying the website is “Non Secure”. Firefox and Chrome with each update are putting in front bigger and bigger warnings about non-HTTPS sites. Following this rate, […]