Magento

How to Import and Export Products With Unirgy’s uRapidFlow
How to Import and Export Products With Unirgy’s uRapidFlow
Alyssa Schaad

Importing products with Magento’s standard import is a hassle. It is suggested that you first create a product with ALL possible attributes first and export it so you have a starting point. This method is slow and error prone. uRapidFlow solves these problems. uRapidflow is a great extension for wholesalers and retailers to import and […]

Using Modman to Better Manage Extensions in Magento 1
Using Modman to Better Manage Extensions in Magento 1
Erlis Dhima

Magento 1 websites have a folder structure which makes development sometimes hard and complicated. Extensions are usually found inside app/code/local or app/code/community and other files, like design templates/layouts or skin files reside in a different directory entirely. Let’s assume you need to update an extension. What you would usually do is replace the existing module files […]

One Year of Magento 2
One Year of Magento 2
Elliot Toman

Magento 2 was officially launched in November of 2015. According to builtwith.com, there are now over 5,500 active websites using Magento 2, meaning that M2 sites account for somewhere around 2% of all Magento sites on the web. Magento 2 was released with high expectations and a good deal of hype. In 2016, Shero developed […]

Speed and Performance Optimization Case Study
Speed and Performance Optimization Case Study
Jill Govier

Speed and Performance Optimization for BeautyPlusSalon.com GOAL: Reduce median load speeds throughout Beauty Plus Salon from over 6 seconds on average to under 3 seconds. Steps were taken to improve speed and performance by Shero: Image resizing, compression and optimization – Our team analyzed all images loading on CMS pages and helped the Beauty Plus […]

Magento Enterprise vs ShopifyPlus
Magento Enterprise vs ShopifyPlus
Gentian Shero

A head to head comparison between Magento EE (M1 & M2) and the up and coming ShopifyPlus. How do these two platforms compare, what features set them apart, and which one is right for you.

Product Management: Magento 1 vs. Magento 2
Product Management: Magento 1 vs. Magento 2
Elliot Toman

While Magento made significant changes to the engineering of its eCommerce platform with Version 2, it tried to make sure that the transition would not be too jarring for administrators familiar with the Magento 1 interface.  Unlike developers, who face a major learning curve, administrators will find the Magento 2 transition to be a pleasant […]

Why You Should Manually Index Your Magento Store
Why You Should Manually Index Your Magento Store
Jill Govier

Indexing Recommendations for Community Edition You want to add/update/delete new products to your Magento store, except there a few issues: When you actually make the changes in the Magento admin, it can take a very long time to save. If you have external systems make updates through the API the time delays can result in […]

Why Use Google Merchant for Your Magento Store
Why Use Google Merchant for Your Magento Store
Luis Amador

With its large size and popularity, Google is one of the top search engines merchants are most concerned with.  Whether it’s SEO, AdWords, or Analytics chances are a Google product or service is being utilized to get clicks and generate revenue.  Although Google Analytics is integrated into Magento out of the box, other products, such […]