It’s been almost 4 years of Magento 2 development now. GitHub has been a great place to find modules off all types: sometimes the modules were great by themselves, sometimes they were just useful, and sometimes they helped me understanding how to do (or not to do) things. I would like to share the modules I’ve used and provide a quick explanation for them. Please note that you can find a curated list not only Read more…
After looking for a proper solution on how to create programmatically a multiselect customer attribute along with its entensible options, I haven’t found anything that was good for me: In many places it is proposed to create a custom class with the options. That’s not good for me because I want the options to be extensible using a cool module like this (it allows creating customer attributes from backoffice). Other solutions I found that should Read more…
I recently needed to create a datetime product attribute programatically in Magento 2. When looking for it on the Internet, all the information I found was outdated. It’s really easy to do so. Use this for the attribute creation and it will be displayed as datetime in the backoffice right away, without any ui_component customization:
Default Magento 2 cookie consent functionality has a couple of issues: First of all: it is not compatible with the European Law. This law actually asks for validation regarding all the type of cookies a website has. We need to differentiate which cookies are mandatory for the website functionality and which ones are not. Secondly: it is buggy! It seems the selected option is not correctly saved and customers need to accept once and again Read more…
I’m writing this because I’ve been stupid enough to buy some clothes in a shopify store after an ad I saw on Facebook. Basically: I saw the ad on Facebook, there was a beautiful and warm legging I wanted to buy for my wife I entered the site and I really liked the way it was designed: clean, clear, beautiful photos. I was stupid enough to not: Check the terms and conditions Check whether there Read more…
Are you tired of clicking enter and enter to see the mysql processlist from command line? Now you can use watch to see the live processlist:
If you develop for Magento 2, you might have run into Catalog URL indexing issues like duplicated urls and constraints. There are many posts and answers about it on the net. After trying many free modules, this was the good one: https://github.com/karliuka/m2.IndexerUrlRewrite It adds Product, Category and Catalog reindex to indexes When reindexing from terminal you’ll see that it reindex these three models You can also reindex separately: This just saved my day 🙂
I’ve been looking for a solution that works fine in Magento 2.3 to move billing address to shipping step in Magento 2.3. There aren’t many available solution online but I’ve found one that works fine with a couple of modifications. Pull request haven’t been accepted in the original repo, but I’ve created a fork with the modifications to: Make this module work with Magento > 2.3 Remove completely the billing address from the payment step Read more…
The error: Is related to a product which doesn’t have a SKU. This might cause different issues: Indexation problems » URL Rewrites not created Product Grid sorting issues: can’t sort by sku The solution should be easy. Go to your database and check which products don’t have an SKU: Once you have found the products, you can just manually add the SKU: You can now check that indexation works fine and you can also sort Read more…
One of the trickiest errors I’ve found when Migrating Magento 1 to Magento 2 (2.3) has been an issue related to unserialization. There are 2 types of messages I received: Reason: in both cases, the reason is that some data that was stored serialized in the Magento 1 database, had been serialized incorrectly. In this particular case, the issue was related to the item product_options value (there is where custom options selected by the customer Read more…