Configurable products have changed a lot in Magento 2. Compared to Magento 1, Magento 2 configurable products are just containers for simple products (variations). You can no longer configure pricing…Continue reading
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…Continue reading
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…Continue reading
GMAIL 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…Continue reading
Magento2 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…Continue reading
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!…Continue reading
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…Continue reading
Migrating 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,…Continue reading
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…Continue reading
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…Continue reading