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Field notes from building and running Magento and Shopify stores: upgrades, performance, migrations, our own extensions and the decisions that sit behind them.
Magento 8 min read
Buy when the requirement is common and a well-built extension fits your processes. Build when the logic is unique to your business or ties into your own systems. Here is how to tell the difference.
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Magento 8 min read
A practical walkthrough of installing, updating and removing Magento 2 extensions with Composer, including private repositories, auth.json and the errors you are most likely to meet.
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Magento 9 min read
Why Luma extensions break on a Hyvä storefront, how to check an extension before you buy or migrate, and the four ways to fix it: vendor support, a compatibility module, the Luma theme fallback or your own compat module.
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Magento 9 min read
A step-by-step way to check every third-party Magento 2 module against your target 2.4.x and PHP version: inventory, Composer constraints, static scans, staging tests and a decision per extension.
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Magento 19 min read
Where to create each sign-in app, which callback URL and scopes to use, what each provider charges or reviews, and where the keys go in the Magento admin.
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E-commerce strategy 21 min read
What the published data says about social login: how often it is used, which providers win, how passkeys and in-app browsers change the picture, and what that means for a Magento store.
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E-commerce strategy 7 min read
A clear brief is what makes agency quotes comparable. What to put in it, what to ask, the red flags to watch for and a one-page template to copy.
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Magento 8 min read
Hyvä makes a Magento storefront lighter and easier to change, but it is a rebuild. Here is what it replaces, what it costs and how to decide.
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Shopify 8 min read
Checkout Extensibility replaces checkout.liquid with extensions, Functions, branding settings and pixels. What each piece does, and how to plan the move.
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