Magento 1 End of Life: Magento 1 vs Magento 2

20th Jul 2020 Celeste Huffman

Magento 2 Magento 1 Magento 1 vs Magento 2 Migration Development

June 2020 was the End of Life for M1 websites. They will no longer receive official security patches, support, and quality fixes for the system. No matter the security issue found, there will be no new patches or support. This leaves an extreme vuln…

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Deep CSS Optimizations in Magento 2

26th May 2020 Jakub Kulig

Magento 2 Frontend Development Optimizations

Merging and minifying CSS is a standard practice in the performance optimization world which can help significantly speed up a site as well as increase page score. They help reduce payload size and minimize the number of server requests which is alw…

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Speed Optimization: How to Speed up Magento Website

27th Apr 2020 Celeste Huffman

SEO Magento 2 Fastly CDN Optimizations Performance Website Speed

Great speed performance is vital for a successful website to have. Page speed is a ranking factor on Google, but it is also a UX issue and for an ecommerce website, it could mean loss of revenue if website speed performs low. If you’re visiting this…

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Best Magento SEO Extensions

23rd Mar 2020 Celeste Huffman

SEO Magento 2 Extensions

Magento 2 SEO and Marketing Extensions Extensions within the Magento 2 framework allow for maximum customization in all areas of your marketplace. From shopping feeds and blogs on the front end, to targeting and schema markup on the back end. While …

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Basic M2 Magento SEO Implementation Tips

9th Mar 2020 Celeste Huffman

SEO Magento 2

As seen in the previous article on the three C’s. These are basic Magento SEO tips and how they are implemented within each category. Magento 2 supports on-page SEO. You can find most of the Magento search engine optimization tools within ‘Marketing…

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Magento 2 SEO Tips: Top 3 Low Hanging Marketing Fruit

17th Nov 2019 Jeff Moriarty

SEO Magento 2

So you built your Magento 2 website and you are looking to see what tips you can do to get better positioning, more traffic and of course more sales. In today’s blog post, we are going to discuss the top 3 things you can change right now to help you…

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How to pass Magento 2 Front-end certification exam

12th Sep 2019 Jakub Kulig

Magento 2 Frontend Certification

I've been working with Magento 2 for the past two years but somehow never got the courage or time to take on the certification exam. There were always some excuses that prevented me from booking the the exam -- excessive workload, newer version of M…

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Speed up local environment for Magento 2 with Valet+

12th Dec 2018 Adrian Sanduleasa

Magento 2 tutorial CLI Development

Local environment is a crucial part of how frustrated a developer can get. In the past I went from Ubuntu, to Windows to macOS, using LAMP, WAMP, MAMP, Vagrant, VM's and local server with Apache, PHP and MySQL, each of them have their advantages and…

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How to Optimize and Speed up Magento 2 Product Page Image Gallery

13th Nov 2018 Adrian Sanduleasa

Magento 2 Frontend tutorial Performance

Loaders are great for UX, it gives the user a feedback that some data crunching is going on, so they know that it's no point in trying to abuse the clicks, they just have to wait and that is just fine. BUT having to wait around 4s in order to see th…

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Checkout validation UI Improvements

30th Oct 2018 Natali Miller

Magento 2 Frontend

When you are running an e-commerce store, inevitably you will experience shopping cart abandonment - customer adds items to their cart but leaves your site before checking out. According to Baymard Institute information, the average shopping cart a…

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Building your own Magento 2 starter theme

26th Jul 2018 Jakub Kulig

Magento 2 Frontend Workflow Development

After having worked on a few Magento 2 projects we've discovered that we've been repeating the same tasks over and over at the start of each project. Removing redundant navigation elements, changing header layout or including our handy LESS mixins a…

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Decrease Magento 2 load time just by disabling modules

17th Jul 2018 Wojtek Naruniec

Magento 2 Performance

One of goals of Magento 2 project was providing software with modularity. It gives us many advantages, and one of them is ability to disable modules which are not used. This speeds up compilation process, makes admin backend less-cluttered (what sho…

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Top 10 Magento 2 CLI commands for Frontend Development

1st Jun 2018 Adrian Sanduleasa

Magento 2 Frontend Tools CLI

As a frontend developer, there is a myth that CLI is for engineers or for sys admins and to don't touch it, but really, Magento 2 provides a straight forward list of commands and they can save you a lot of time on your development workflow. What is …

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Creating a Custom Magento 2 Widget

24th May 2018 Jakub Kulig

Magento 2 Frontend Development module

There are times that you might want to give your client the ability to easily add or modify content on store front without using a full blown third-party extension. One common use case is a homepage slider or a simple content block in the sidebar wi…

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Logging Magento 2 REST API calls

10th May 2018 Razvan Lungu

Magento 2 REST API

Often when working on an M2 project customers use different 3rd party services for inventory management, shipping management etc. Usually if the 3rd party service only uses API calls to read data from an M2 instance there’s shouldn’t be any trouble,…

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How to create a 301 redirect using Fastly in Magento

1st May 2018 Gregor Pollak

Magento 2 Magento Cloud Fastly CDN

Recently, we've built a Magento 2 store on Magento Cloud without the usage of migration tools to migrate the data from Magento 1. One of the things that has changed, was a category name that was used as a top-level category. In Magento 1 the URL was…

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Magento 2 frontend development using Gulp and BrowserSync

1st Mar 2018 Jakub Kulig

Magento 2 Frontend Workflow Tools

We all know Magento is not the most welcoming enviroment for front-end developers. The basic set of tools that comes with the Magento 2 package is cumbersome to use and doesn't really help developers get the most out of their skill sets. Using Grunt…

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