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For many businesses, surcharges are a good way to keep base prices down and recover specific, customer-driven costs to your business. Surcharges are a common part of the online buying experience in m…

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…

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…

Not many people are aware yet that Magento 2's Web Setup Wizard is a UI sitting on top of Composer. Because of this you do not need to use the graphical interface if you prefer to use the command line…

Magento 2 comes with a range of compilation commands which are meant to be run as part of your build step. However as there are a few different commands it's easy to forget one. The easiest way I foun…

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…

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…

You can run Magento 2 in three different modes: default, developer and production. Magento 2 allows you to define which mode to run via a server variable (MAGE_MODE). This can be seen in the below exa…

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…

Sometimes you need to quickly check something on the latest development version of Magento 2. Especially if you haven't previously pulled the repository from Github the following small change will red…

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…

Magento has always been used around the world with the community providing translations for different locales. With Magento 2 this is no different and the translation efforts can be found on Crowdin.…

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 instan…

The most common mistake when working with Magento? Making changes directly to your live Magento site… without first using a test site. It’s so simple, but my best advice is to always use a test site …

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…

While working with Magento 2 you will be using the command line a lot more often. I have started a collection of commands that have come in handy while working on various client installations: Tip #1 …

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…

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…

When working with PWA Studio you have two ways to set up your project: Clone the repository Use the scaffold command yarn create @magento/pwa to create your starting project When using 1. getting t…

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 …