Once upon a time, yours truly was a Magento 2 developer. These posts stem from a time better known as the career we don’t speak of.
Do with it what you will, just never speak to me about it. Unless you want to hire me for an assignment, because I’m totally cool with that. ;-)
A few months ago I showed how using preconnect resource hints can severely speed up your website. I found out that for Magento 2 there are no ready-to-use solutions to integrate preload, preconnect or prefetch headers into your store. So today I’ll show you how to add preload, preconnect and prefetch resource hints to Magento 2’s head.
Resource Hints or: how to Speed Up Magento 2 using PreconnectRead More »
Let’s say your company sells one product. This deserves the spotlight, right? Let’s say you want to give your product a prominent place in the topmenu. Since Magento 2 natively only supports adding categories to its topmenu, you’re up for a challenge! Today I’ll show you how to create a module which allows you to add products to your topmenu.
…It isn’t hard to format price values in Magento 2. There are many (wrong) ways to achieve the correct formatting of prices — or any value — in Magento 2. But fear not, today I will provide you with the right, clean way to format any value to a price (with currency symbol).
…Format Price with Currency Symbol in Magento 2 [the Right Way!]Read More »
About two years ago I wrote a tutorial on how to redirect simple products to their configurable parents with pre-selected attributes in Magento 1.9.x. Shortly after that Magento 2 was released and I’ve received some requests on how to do the same in the new version.
In this post I will explain to you how to build a module that will redirect simple products to their configurable parent product with automatically pre-selected configurable attributes.
…Many people have complained on Magento Dev’s Github about a bug in Magento 2, which occurs when you try to pre-select configurable attributes by parsing the URL. It triggers an Uncaught TypeError in your console and causes all Javascript execution to crash, causing the image gallery not be updated. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to squash this bug.
Fix ‘Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘updateData’ of undefined’ in Magento 2Read More »
Recently I created a Magento 2 module which imports data from a custom source, writes it to a custom database table and updates existing entities using a Custom Collection. Because I thought it might come in handy for other beginning Magento 2 developers, I’ll share it with you today.
This tutorial consists of a few parts:
…How to Write Data to Custom Database Table and Create a Custom Collection in Magento 2Read More »
