Notes from the engine room, page 2

Magento extensions 5 min read

Mapping Magento categories to Google product categories, and why it is worth the hour

Google assigns a product category on its own, but there are cases where your own mapping decides which attributes are required and how your campaigns are split. Here is how to map a Magento category tree sensibly.

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Magento extensions 6 min read

A Google Merchant Center feed from Magento 2: what Google needs and why products get disapproved

Google's product data specification, read with a Magento catalogue in mind: where each required value comes from, and the Magento habits behind the most common disapprovals.

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Magento extensions 6 min read

Changing prices on hundreds of Magento products without a CSV import

Magento's own tools can set one price for many products, or import a spreadsheet. Neither can add 5% and round to .99, and neither can undo. Here is the gap and how we filled it.

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Magento extensions 6 min read

Approving new customer accounts on a trade-only Magento shop

Magento Open Source lets anyone register and sign in straight away. Here is how to hold new accounts for review on a trade-only shop, and which core settings you still need to change.

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Magento extensions 7 min read

Free gift with purchase on Magento 2: cart price rules shoppers actually understand

A free gift offer goes wrong when the shopper cannot tell whether they qualify. How to set up gift rules on Magento 2 that are clear in the cart and tidy on the order and the refund.

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Magento extensions 7 min read

Back-in-stock emails on Magento 2: opt-in, unsubscribe and consent done properly

A back-in-stock form is easy to add. Getting the confirmation, the unsubscribe, the size options and the line between a service message and marketing right takes more thought.

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Magento 9 min read

How to audit third-party Magento extensions before an upgrade

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 9 min read

How to check (and fix) Hyvä compatibility for a Magento extension

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 8 min read

How do you install a Magento 2 extension with Composer?

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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