Magento 2 Guides & Tricks

PHP 7.1.0 WAS RELEASED A COUPLE OF WEEKS BEFORE. ALL THE VERSIONS OF PHP LOWER THAN 5.6.X WERE ANNOUNCED AS OUTDATED AND ARE NOT SUPPORTED BY THE DEVELOPERS. SOME DISTRIBUTION VENDORS STILL SUPPORT SECURITY UPDATES IN TERMS OF LONG TERM SUPPORT, BUT YOU’LL NEVER GET THE NEW FEATURES WITH THEM. Hello, Amasty blog readers! We’ve been posting Magento performance tests for quite a while. For ...

Yay, Magento 2 is officially out! Great news indeed. My name is Alex, and I’m a Magento specialist at Amasty. For the last few months I’ve been busy building Magento 2 extensions, and today I wanted to share an instruction on building a simple custom module in Magento 2. What we’re going to build To demonstrate how to create a Magento 2 extension, we are going to create a new HelloWorld modul...

If you are a Magento 2 developer, some day and not even once you’ll need to create a certain amount of Magento 2 orders, and preferably programmatically, as manual creating of a bigger number of orders can be time consuming and simply inconvenient. I created this Magento 2 order generator for the needs of Amasty team and decided to share it with you so you can set Magento 2 payment method prog...

Magento cron job is an important component for correct performance. It is widely used for running actions that are performed on schedule, such as indexing and caching, sitemap generation, currency rate updates, and many more as well. Magento default cron functionality includes AOE scheduler, but first things first. However, today we would like to explain in detail how you can make cron setup w...

We’ve noticed that many store owners ask questions about methods of displaying bestselling products on their Magento stores. Say, you need to show the most popular items on your Home page or Category View page. Unfortunately, there’s no such default feature in Magento, but you can easily do this yourself. Read on to see the instructions! Choose to display bestselling products to a specific cu...

Hello to Amasty blog readers! Today I'm sharing a tutorial for users of Amasty Product Parts Finder extension. Product Parts Finder is a very powerful tool that lets people find spare parts and components by certain parameters. In the user guide, we described options of adding the Product Parts Finder block on certain pages via the admin panel. But often this method is not enough for merchants...