One of the good security practices in Magento (either 1 or 2) is to protect your backoffice url with password using htpasswd (directly in the Apache conf or in the htaccess file). It is not the perfect solution, but it adds an extra layer of security which: Will prevent anyone Read more…
Cleaning the cache by TAG is quite easy in Magento 2. You will need to: Inject the classes in your construct function Know the exact tags you want to cache Flush the actual Cache Start creating your class injecting the classes we need: Create a function to retrieve the tags Read more…
Creating a new category attribute should be easy in Magento 2. It is, more or less. Follow these steps and you will get to it: Files you will need to create A quick screenshot of how your module will look once you create it: YourCompany/YourModule/registration.php YourCompany/YourModule/etc/module.xml YourCompany/YourModule/Setup/InstallData.php YourCompany/YourModule/view/adminhtml/ui_component/category_form.xml This code Read more…
Magento 2 includes many default modules that you probably won’t ever use. This is my proposed list and you can disable it directly using the following command: Magento_*Analytics Requires a subscription Magento_Marketplace If you’re a developer installing modules via composer, this is not necessary Magento_AuthorizeMagento_Braintree Not necessary if you don’t Read more…
If you use Redsys (payment platform used by Spanish banking like CaixaBank, Banco Santander, Banco Sabadell and many others), you may want to have different test cards for your test platform. I want to share with you the ones provided by the official documentation: Type PAN 3DSecure v.2 3DSMethod Authorization Read more…
Just a quick note for myself. If we need to find duplicated values for a specific attribute (in this case attribute “taxvat” for the entity “customer” (for Magento 1): First of all, we need to know the attribute id of our attribute code: And then we execute the following query Read more…
Recently we converted a 10 years old Magento single store to a Magento Multi Store. We wanted to add English language (original language was Spanish). We did this by creating a new store, asigning the code /es/ to the Spanish store and /en/ to the English store. To avoid SEO Read more…
If you want to change or update your backoffice admin user password in Prestashop you need to execute the following query: The <COOKIE_KEY> field has to be changed by the value of the ‘cookie_key’ line in the app/config/parameters.php file.
One of my favourite things I learned working at Smile was using LXC for development. It’s different from Docker in the sense that you don’t configure services and things like that: you just create a exact copy of the environment you’re going to have in production, with all its services Read more…
There are a lot of articles on Internet proposing the deletion of all categories using a sql query. I’ve tested one of them and I’ve run into several problems due to this (url keys not deleted correctly, deletion of the Default category…). There is a safer way, using Magento tools. Read more…