Magento 2 Guides & Tricks

How to display bestselling products in Magento

How to display bestselling products in Magento + source code

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...
October 6, 2016
How to add Product Parts Finder blocks to pages

How to add Product Parts Finder blocks to pages

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...
September 23, 2016
Magento 2 common issues

How to Fix the Most Common Magento 2 Issues

Both newcomers and seasoned users experience problems with Magento. So if you’ve encountered a Magento bug – don’t sweat, it’s normal, and there’s a fix for everything. In this post, we’ll overview the common Magento troubleshooting process and discuss detailed tips on how to fix some of the most common issues in Magento 2.

September 15, 2016
Magento security: checklist to protect your store

Magento security best practices: checklist to protect your store from security issues

Security is a process, not a product. Bruce Schneier According to eMarketer’s latest forecasts, worldwide business-to-consumer (B2C) ecommerce sales will increase by 20.1% this year to reach $1.500 trillion. E-commerce world is growing rapidly, and it’s natural that thousands of dedicated servers working 24/7 or private information, including financial data, are a honeypot for hackers. And ...
April 18, 2016
Creating Magento simple and configurable products programmatically

How to Create Simple and Configurable Products in Magento 2 Programmatically: Technical Guide

Products are the cornerstone of any catalog or e-commerce store, and Magento offers robust features for creating them from the backend. Whether you’re looking to create simple products, grouped products with configurable products, or configure products programmatically, Magento 2 makes it possible to tailor your store's inventory. This guide will walk you through the process of creating Magento 2 configurable products manually or programmatically, as well as some common issues you may encounter.

March 31, 2016
How to Install Apache Solr for Magento Store?

How to Install Apache Solr for Magento Store?

Do you know how many customers your Magento store is losing just because your visitors can’t find the products they need since the search system is imperfect? Huge stores with an extensive amount of products suffer from it dramatically. Learn how to help your customers to find what they need and boost your sales by installing Apache Solr. When a customer doesn’t know the exact product name, s...
March 21, 2016
Magento Price Rules

Magento Price Rules: How to Set Up Cart and Catalog Discounts

To help merchants create and automate various discount campaigns, Magento 2 provides a robust set of cart and catalog price rules. While already powerful, these features can be enhanced even further with modules like Special Promotions. This guide explores the differences between cart price rules and catalog price rules, provides step-by-step instructions for setting them up, and shares best practices for running successful promotions in Magento 2.

December 18, 2015
Magento 2 vs Magento 2 performance comparison: speed test results

Magento 1 vs Magento 2 performance comparison: speed test results

  One of the most important buzz features of Magento 2 is the built-in full page cache. What is more, Magento 2 FPC supports Varnish as backend. While Magento 2 is declared to be a much faster platform in comparison with the first version, we decided to check Magento 2 vs Magento 1 performance with various cache settings to see which combination gives the best results. In spite of all those v...
December 16, 2015
Little-known discount issue in Magento and how to fix it

Little-known discount issue in Magento and how to fix it

Hello, my name is Pavel, and the most of my work with Magento is connected with discounts. Sounds like a confession! I can say I know a lot about them, but our sophisticated customers never let me rest and ask more and more questions about this topic. A couple of days ago I’ve encountered a problem with discounts in Magento, and today I wanted to explain this issue to you, also giving tips on ...
October 26, 2015
Little-known Amasty extensions features: GeoIP Data

Little-known Amasty extensions features: GeoIP Data import

GeoIP Data is a service module that checks approximate user location by IP address. If you run Magento 2, try out this GeoIP extension developed specially for working with the version. This tool may be of use when you don’t want your customers to enter the full address. GeoIP defines country, in most of the cases state and even city. GeoIP Data is included into several Amasty Magento extensio...
October 6, 2015
Magento 302 Redirect Issue: How to Handle

Magento 302 Redirect Issue: How to Handle

A couple of weeks ago we received a following question from our reader: clay How would I make urls such as WISH LIST, currency switcher and product compare 301 instead of 302? Is there code that I can update? What in Magento source code sets this? Currently with x-number of pages all have compare buttons, currency symbols, etc, I have a ton of 302s that are hurting me. Before answering this...
May 19, 2015
Magento cache explained: a guide for store owners

Magento Cache Management: Cache Types, Backend Options, and Setup Tips

Magento caching is a key mechanism for optimizing website performance and ensuring swift access to your store content. To help you rid your customer of the long loading times,  Magento 2 offers a range of cache management techniques. In this article, we explore the peculiarities of Magento cache types, backend store options (including Redis and Varnish), as well as tools for Magento cache management.  

March 12, 2015

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