Magento 2 Quick Tips

One of the more exciting improvements included in Magento 2.4.2 is the support of Composer 2.0. In our tests, this brought a substantial speed increase and less memory usage to Composer commands run a…

A quick list containing the first and latest version of the main Magento 2 branches and their respective supported PHP versions. Magento Version Supported PHP Versions Link to Source 2.0.0 ~5.5…

I found this treasure hidden in the Magento Github repo describing succinctly on how to work with Magento's configuration files, namely app/etc/config.php and app/etc/env.php. Reposting it here so tha…

Triggered by a recent discussion on Slack and noticing this latest Pull Request to fix some timezone handling specific code in the Magento 2 framework (Github PR) it seems to confirm a long held suspi…

There are lots of different options around to set up your local development environment and I'd hazard a guess no two development environments are the same. Most of my Magento development work I do is…

With all the new stuff coming to Magento 2.3.0 you might want to try out the upgrade process to the latest 2.3.0-alpha release. Before you start, make sure that your existing store is running on php 7…

There are a few things that come included in Magento 2 which help in keeping your admin settings easy to use. Hide unused settings First - it's always a good idea to remove as many settings as possibl…

When an end user has taken an action in any application it's a good idea to provide the user feedback on that action. So for example if the save product button has been clicked in Magento 2 you would …

The bin/magento command is the entry point to working with Magento 2's command line tasks. Prompted by a couple of recent tweets I thought I quickly write down a couple of tips to speed up working wit…

Magento 2 uses Swagger to automatically generate documentation for its REST API. You can view a published version on Magento devdocs. What's even better - Swagger is shipped with each installed insta…