Magento 2 Development

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 …

TL;DR: Our package versioning scheme will change to a similar approach Magento uses. The installed extension package will become a metapackage which is no longer going to be semantically versioned. T…

Magento itself has documentation available on how to upgrade to a newer version of Magento, including using the Web Setup Wizard. However the guides are a bit light on details when you are also using …

Magento 2.2 has been announced back in April at Imagine. Since then a steady stream of pull requests and changes have made it into the Magento code base. With a targetted release date in September, Ma…

One of the cornerstones of Magento has always been the extensibility of the platform. Magento 2 is no different, but some of the approaches to customising Magento have changed substantially with the…

Prefer to watch rather than read? Check out the video from my Composer presentation at Magento Imagine 2017. Composer is a powerful tool for developers to harness the full potential of Magento 2. It…

Small merchants using Magento. Everyone has an opinion, and they’re not all favourable. Of the 200,000+ online stores that use Magento, a lot of these are smaller merchants. I’ve witnessed small mer…

In my recent Imagine presentation I talked about keeping your Magento 2 extensions in the vendor folder. The good news is that it is fairly straight forward to convert your extension from one location…

Whether you write custom modules for individual clients or sell extensions on the Magento Marketplace - Magento 2 extension development is a big change from M1. I started writing Fooman’s Magento 2 e…