There are so many Magento utilities that we find indispensable as developers. These are our top five, which have saved us time, avoided mistakes and made life easier for our clients. In no particular order, then…
This post is about a couple of the more interesting and fundamental bugs which we have come across whilst working with Magento 2. A few of these took a while to find and resulted in quite large issues on production sites. Knowing a few simple things can save you a lot of time and effort.
Magento 2 makes heavy use of the composer dependency manager. There are times when this can be restrictive though – the meta-package sets all the required versions. Is that a problem? Actually, not that often; but it gives us the opportunity to learn some fun things about composer.
Arranging products in Magento 2 Community Edition can be a pain. You are required to enter numbered positions and often need to make a lot of changes just to get one product where you would like it.
This sounds a little esoteric, but along side Magento 1’s more commonly used SOAP API, there is an option to call this using remote procedure calls. There is less documentation out there on this, and even less on how to diagnose any issues. So here are some tips to get you started!
If you are reading this then you may be concerned whether you are charging tax correctly for shipping. Over and under charging are both issues, so how do you work this out?