You often need to use CLI commands while working with Magento 2. But you might miss the fact that all magento 2 console commands has short form. The nature of these shortcuts comes from Symphony framework used by magento team. Each magento console class that implement command line functionality use Symfony\Component\Console\Command component to implement command […]
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Magento 2 is a great open-source ecommerce platform. It has wide variety of features, gives you full control on design, has large community and so on. But most important nowadays is that Magento is one of the most search engine friendly e-commerce platforms. Many store owners do not use all its power due to a […]
read more Magento 2 Bundle and Merge JavaScript Modes can improve performance of your eCommerce website dramatically. But should you enable them simultaneously or separately? While supporting our Slider Revolution Extension for Magento 2 we found JavaScript error on clients website. This problem was related to both merge and bundle javascript options enabled. In this configuration slider […]
read more To enable template path hints in Magento: Login to the magento back-end Go to System > Configuration Go to Developer section on the bottom left under ADVANCED Switch to the store view on the top left to your current website or store view. Open Debug and set “Template Path Hints” = Yes. Optionally you can […]
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Sometimes you might get “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of …” PHP error. Usually this means that you run out of memory. It is recommended to double check your code and profile your app with xDebug. It should tell you which function is called how often and how much memory it eats. However, the code […]
read more It is common magento issue. You open product page and have quantity set to “0”. This is not good. Customer think that if the quantity is 0 it normally means nothing will be added to the cart. Setting default product quantity to 1 make your site more user friendly. It is pretty easy to fix. […]
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In some cases you will need to dynamically replace slide images in Slider Revolution. For example if you want to change image depending on browser size. Or after some user actions. This is quite easy with use of Slider Revolution API and Custom Javascript. Lets for example add feature that changes second slides image to […]
read more Extending modules instead of modifying them is a good practice in Magento development. But what will happen if in Magento two modules extend same class? This can occur when two extensions extend same class for own needs. In this case only the last one will get benefit from extending it. And the first one will […]
read more Most magento extension has its own section in admin configuration. Sometimes you want to have one of configuration groups to be expanded. All you need to do is add expanded parameter to it. It will define whether the group is expanded by default when viewing that particular tab section. Configuration section / groups defined in […]
read more It is pretty easy to restrict access to magento admin area in nginx. Basically you need to update configuration file and restart it.
All commands applicable for debian. There might be different syntax for other versions.