Magento 1.9.4.0 and PHP 7 Docker Upgrade
With the demise of Magento 1.x on the horizon – Adobe announced in September 2018 support for version Magento 1 will cease in 2020 new life has been breathed into the product with version 1.9.4.0....
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Magento Migration for Dummies
If you are a Magento 1 Ecommerce Store owner you are probably well aware that support for Magento CE 1.x will stop in 2020. The nice folks at Magento call it “Sunsetting“ We have all known this for...
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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 time consuming...
View ArticleMigrating from Amazon Cloud Drive
A few years ago the nice people at Amazon started to offer unlimited cloud storage for Amazon Prime customers on their so called Amazon Drive service. A lot of people, including me, jumped on board – I...
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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 list was product review migration. Looking around for (free)...
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Magento2 Migration for Dummies – January 2020 Update
We run a small business with a small IT budget (i.e. zero) and I am migrating a Magento 1.x ecommerce website to Magento 2 – which is no mean feat! It is now January 2020, in my last post from June...
View ArticleGMAIL TLS Negotiation failed, the certificate doesn’t match the host
Gmail lets you Send emails from a different email address or alias so that If you use other email addresses or providers, you can send email from that address via Gmail. To do this you configure an...
View ArticleMagento2 Migration for Dummies – Migration 1 COMPLETE
It’s Easter 2020, we are in the middle of a global pandemic, locked down at home in self isolation and the world is in utter chaos. In other news my first Magento 1 migration is complete and taking...
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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 for...
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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 first before making any changes or...
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Improve Slow Loading Magento 2 Large Configurable Products
Configurable products have changed a lot in Magento 2. Compared to Magento 1 configurable products in Magento 2 are just containers for simple products (variations). You can no longer configure pricing...
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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 go...
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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 culprit. The attribute...
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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 queues and also...
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How to Configure Varnish for Magento 2
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 Varnish for Magento 2, so...
View ArticleMigrating from Amazon Cloud Drive
A few years ago the nice people at Amazon started to offer unlimited cloud storage for Amazon Prime customers on their so called Amazon Drive service. A lot of people, including me, jumped on board – I...
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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 list was product review migration. Looking around for (free)...
View ArticlePHP Passwordless User Login with WEB3 Connect and Metamask
WEB3 is becoming the buzzword of the year – if you don’t know exactly what it is join the club! Suffice to say that WEB3 will decentralise the Internet enabling us to do all the stuff we love on the...
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