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    How to get Wishlist Items by customer id in Magento 2?

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    Here, we are discussing how to get wishlist items of the customer by customer id.

    You can display Customer Wishlist item details in the store.

    Use MagentoWishlistModelWishlist Model file to get Wishlist.

    Create Block to load Wishlist collection.

    <?php
namespace MagemonkeyWishlistBlock;

class Magemonkeydemo extends MagentoFrameworkViewElementTemplate
{
public function __construct(
MagentoFrameworkViewElementTemplateContext $context,
MagentoWishlistModelWishlist $wishlist,
array $data = []
) {
$this->wishlist = $wishlist;
parent::__construct($context,$data);
}

/**
* @param int $customerId
*/
public function getWishlistByCustomerId($customerId)
{
$wishlist = $this->wishlist->loadByCustomerId($customerId)->getItemCollection();
return $wishlist;
}
}
?>

    Now, add below code and call the function in a template file, It will display wishlist item if found, otherwise “Nothing found in your wishlist!” will be displayed.

    <?php
$customerId = 7; /* CUSTOMER'S ID */
$wishlistCollection = $block->getWishlistByCustomerId($customerId);
if(count($wishlistCollection)) {
foreach ($wishlistCollection as $_item) {
/* You can get ID, Name, Desc. ... */
echo $_item->getProduct()->getId();
}
} else {
/* Display message if no item found in wishlist */
echo __("Nothing found in your wishlist!");
}
?>

     

    More/Less functionality in Magento2

    Posted on by m@g3m@nk3y$

    First of all, we need to create several files:

    touch app/design/frontend/<your_vendor_name>/<your_theme_name>/Magento_Catalog/layout/catalog_product_view.xml
touch app/design/frontend/<your_vendor_name>/<your_theme_name>/requirejs-config.js
touch app/design/frontend/<your_vendor_name>/<your_theme_name>/web/js/toggle-product-description.js
touch app/design/frontend/<your_vendor_name>/<your_theme_name>/Magento_Catalog/templates/more-less.phtml
touch app/design/frontend/<your_vendor_name>/<your_theme_name>/web/css/source/_theme.less

    Let’s review these files and see here description for each one regarding which code will be placed inside of them:

    requirejs-config.js

    Use this file to register your own JavaScript component:

    var config = {
    map: {
        "*": {
            // alias: path-to-corresponding-js-file
            toggleProductDescription: 'js/toggle-product-description'
        }
    }
};

    catalog_product_view.xml

    Inside of the content  container, a new block is created with a specified template file that is going to be used:

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">    <body>
        <referenceContainer name="content">
            <block class="MagentoFrameworkViewElementTemplate" name="more-less-js" template="Magento_Catalog::more-less.phtml" />
        </referenceContainer>
    </body>
</page>

    more-less.phtml

    This file contains the basic configuration of the more/less functionality.

    <script type="text/x-magento-init">
{
    ".product.attribute.description .value":{
       "toggleProductDescription":{
            "contentMaxHeight": 200
        }
    }
}
</script>

    toggle-product-description.js

    Place all of your JavaScript logic in this file. Skeleton of such a JavaScript component should be like this:

    define([
	"jquery", // declare your libraries, if you are using them
], function ($) { // delare library aliases
	'use strict';
 
	return function (config, node) {
		var moreLess = {
			button: {
				el: $("<a>", {
					id: "toggle-description",
					href: "#"
				}),
				expanded_text: "- Less",
				collapsed_text: "+ More"
			},
			target: {
				el: $(node),
				height: $(node).height(),
				maxHeight: config.contentMaxHeight,
				collapsedClassName: "collapsed",
			}
		};
		
		if (moreLess.target.height > moreLess.target.maxHeight) {
		// update button text value
			moreLess.button.el.text(moreLess.button.collapsed_text);
		 
			moreLess.target.el
				// add css class to apply some styling
				.addClass(moreLess.target.collapsedClassName)
				// append link to product description
				.parent().append(moreLess.button.el);
		}
		 
		moreLess.button.el.on("click", function (e) {
			e.preventDefault();
		 
			if (moreLess.target.el.hasClass(moreLess.target.collapsedClassName)) {
				moreLess.target.el.removeClass(moreLess.target.collapsedClassName);
				moreLess.button.el.text(moreLess.button.expanded_text);
			} else {
				moreLess.target.el.addClass(moreLess.target.collapsedClassName);
				moreLess.button.el.text(moreLess.button.collapsed_text);
			}
		});
	}
});

    _theme.less

    This is an optional file for you to create, I have created some minimal styling (transparent-to-solid background) as a nice effect on the more/less button.

    .product.attribute.description .value{
  max-height: none;
  position: relative;
  max-height: none;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #d1d1d1;
 
  &.collapsed {
    max-height: 200px;
    overflow: hidden;
 
    &:after {
      content: "";
      position: absolute;
      width: 100%;
      height: 160px;
      z-index: 1;
      display: block;
      bottom: 0;
 
      background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,0) 0%, rgba(255,255,255,1) 70%, rgba(255,255,255,1) 100%); /* FF3.6-15 */
      background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,0) 0%,rgba(255,255,255,1) 70%,rgba(255,255,255,1) 100%); /* Chrome10-25,Safari5.1-6 */
      background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(255,255,255,0) 0%,rgba(255,255,255,1) 70%,rgba(255,255,255,1) 100%); /* W3C, IE10+, FF16+, Chrome26+, Opera12+, Safari7+ */
      filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#00ffffff', endColorstr='#ffffff',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */
    }
  }
}
 
#toggle-description {
  margin-top: 20px;
  display: inline-block;
}

    Here is how it looks like on the frontend:

    How to open popup when tag onClick? – Magento2

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    You can open popup when <a> tag onClick using below code:

    div>
    <a href="#" id="click-me">Click Me</a>
</div>

<div id="popup-modal" style="display:none;">
    <h1> Hi I'm here.... </h1>
</div>

<script>
    require(
        [
            'jquery',
            'Magento_Ui/js/modal/modal'
        ],
        function(
            $,
            modal
        ) {
            var options = {
                type: 'popup',
                responsive: true,
                innerScroll: true,
                title: 'popup modal title',
                buttons: [{
                    text: $.mage.__('Continue'),
                    class: '',
                    click: function () {
                        this.closeModal();
                    }
                }]
            };

            var popup = modal(options, $('#popup-modal'));
            $("#click-me").on('click',function(){ 
                $("#popup-modal").modal("openModal");
            });

        }
    );
</script>

     

    User Access Permission in Magento 2

    Posted on by m@g3m@nk3y$

    Sometimes you see the following error on the admin login page:

    “You need more permission to access this”,

    The fastest solution to resolve this issue is to create a new “admin” user and reset the previous user’s permissions.

    You can do it with the command line. Go to your Magento’s root directory and type:

    php bin/magento admin:user:create --admin-user='adminuser' --admin-password='adminuser@123' --admin-email='adminuser@domain.com' --admin-firstname='Admin' --admin-lastname='User'

    Through this command, it will create a new admin user with username “adminuser” and password “adminuser@123”. Then you need to login with this user and reset the previous user’s permissions.

    Need a tip to keep your DB clean before Migrating from Magento 1 to 2?

    Posted on by m@g3m@nk3y$

    Migrating from Magento 1 to Magento 2 needs a lot of preparation and a few things are very common like the theme, an old data structure (sometimes). Together these factors can cause some worry. Here are a few examples that we have experienced

    Saving a product and creating a new URL nothing happens and the URL won’t change

    A lot of times it happens that the client would get the error “The from date is not greater than the to date”. You cannot view these on the product edit page and still, you will get the error. This takes place due to Magento New from and to dates are differently used in some places.

    Even, special price from and to dates seems to continue but yet you cannot edit it. In this case, the client would change the price as they were added to the cart here; the product page does not make the changes, and also the cart ignores the changes.

    At the time of upgrades, the data structure faces few errors based on fields that are loaded with what seems like spam.

    Let’s understand through an example:

    One of our clients was unable to create a new URL for a product. In simple words, any time the product was saved it was simply using the existing URL. The reason was that the url_path field was no longer used and or even shown in the Magneto 2 UI, however, the value was present in the DB so whenever save the product it uses that field. Although our was a little different with the attribute.

    DELETE FROM catalog_product_entity_varchar WHERE attribute_id = 87

    Using this if you save a product key then you immediately receive the new URL in the frontend.

    You may wish to validate the url_path attribute ID before you go deleting anything though.

    SELECT * FROM `eav_attribute` WHERE `attribute_code` = ‘url_path’

    Make a note that all your systems must have the same ID numbers.

    This one is similar to another EAV type of data issue we have seen. The sale_price_from and the sale_price_to dates were deprecated from Magento Commerce Edition, in favor of using the scheduler to schedule the changes. Well, either something went wrong or but in the past we had one client where the prices were changing in the carts because the dates were there, but now one could manage them. And one place in the front end used them, while others did not.

    So, now to the point of the article. The other day we wanted to migrate someone from Woo Commerce to Magento 2. So we started to investigate this based on using Cart2Cart. This tool allows you to migrate via various cart API user accounts, passwords, orders as well as products.

    Then we came up with the idea!

    why don’t we start doing our Magento 2 migrations this way, use the software to cleans the DB if you will, and make sure we start with a fresh new Magneto 2 specific DB, then migrate you one data with Cart2Cart.

    Well, this is exactly what we will be doing for a long and to make sure to carry over as little “legacy problems” in the data as possible. If you are at all familiar with the Magento EAV data structure you will likely know what we are talking about, its a tremendously flexible data model, but it does seem to be prone to lots of issues where data structures are referenced in the code base, they are no longer intended to be used.

    Take Away

    You should at the very least, consider a Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration plan that opts to use data migrations through API layers and native imports, rather than through a database “upgrade” script. The upgrade script can keep some stuff around you may not want or need.

    Magento2 Ajax Newsletter

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    1. Create di.xml at app/code/Magemonkeys/AjaxNewsletter/etc/di.xml folder. 
      <?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
    <type name="MagentoNewsletterControllerSubscriberNewAction">
        <plugin name="Newsletter_Subscriber_NewAction"
                type="MagemonkeysAjaxNewsletterControllerPluginSubscriberNewAction" sortOrder="10" disabled="false" />
    </type>
</config>
    2. create NewAction.php at app/code/Magemonkeys/AjaxNewsletter/Controller/Plugin/Subscriber folder 
      <?php
/**
 *
 */
namespace MagemonkeysAjaxNewsletterControllerPluginSubscriber;
 
use MagentoCustomerApiAccountManagementInterface as CustomerAccountManagement;
use MagentoCustomerModelSession;
use MagentoCustomerModelUrl as CustomerUrl;
use MagentoFrameworkAppActionContext;
use MagentoStoreModelStoreManagerInterface;
use MagentoNewsletterModelSubscriberFactory;
 
/**
 * Class NewAction
 */
class NewAction extends MagentoNewsletterControllerSubscriberNewAction
{
    /**
     * @var CustomerAccountManagement
     */
    protected $customerAccountManagement;
 
    protected $resultJsonFactory;
 
    /**
     * Initialize dependencies.
     *
     * @param Context $context
     * @param SubscriberFactory $subscriberFactory
     * @param Session $customerSession
     * @param StoreManagerInterface $storeManager
     * @param CustomerUrl $customerUrl
     * @param CustomerAccountManagement $customerAccountManagement
     */
    public function __construct(
        Context $context,
        SubscriberFactory $subscriberFactory,
        Session $customerSession,
        StoreManagerInterface $storeManager,
        CustomerUrl $customerUrl,
        CustomerAccountManagement $customerAccountManagement,
        MagentoFrameworkControllerResultJsonFactory $resultJsonFactory
    ) {
        $this->customerAccountManagement = $customerAccountManagement;
        $this->resultJsonFactory = $resultJsonFactory;
        parent::__construct(
            $context,
            $subscriberFactory,
            $customerSession,
            $storeManager,
            $customerUrl,
            $customerAccountManagement
        );
    }
 
    /**
     * Retrieve available Order fields list
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function aroundExecute($subject, $procede)
    {
        $response = [];
        if ($this->getRequest()->isPost() && $this->getRequest()->getPost('email')) {
            $email = (string)$this->getRequest()->getPost('email');
 
            try {
                $this->validateEmailFormat($email);
                $this->validateGuestSubscription();
                $this->validateEmailAvailable($email);
 
                $status = $this->_subscriberFactory->create()->subscribe($email);
                if ($status == MagentoNewsletterModelSubscriber::STATUS_NOT_ACTIVE) {
                    $response = [
                        'status' => 'OK',
                        'msg' => 'The confirmation request has been sent.',
                    ];
                } else {
                    $response = [
                        'status' => 'OK',
                        'msg' => 'Thank you for your subscription.',
                    ];
                }
            } catch (MagentoFrameworkExceptionLocalizedException $e) {
                $response = [
                    'status' => 'ERROR',
                    'msg' => __('There was a problem with the subscription: %1', $e->getMessage()),
                ];
            } catch (Exception $e) {
                $response = [
                    'status' => 'ERROR',
                    'msg' => __('Something went wrong with the subscription.'),
                ];
            }
        }
 
        return $this->resultJsonFactory->create()->setData($response);
    }
 
}
    3. Make a copy of “vendor/magento/module-newsletter/view/frontend/templates/subscribe.phtml” and place it inside your Magento Theme (e.g. app/design/frontend/NAMESPACE/MY_CUSTOM_THEME/Magento_Newsletter/templates/subscribe.phtml
      Add the following javascript to the end of the subscribe.phtml:

      {
        "*": {
            "js/newsletter_subscriber_ajax": { }
        }
    }
    4. Create newsletter_subscriber_ajax.js at app/design/frontend/NAMESPACE/MY_CUSTOM_THEME/web/js/ folder
    require.config({
    deps: [
        'jquery'
    ],
    callback: function ($) {
        var form = $('form.subscribe');
 
        form.submit(function(e) {
            if(form.validation('isValid')){
                var email = $("#newsletter").val();
                var url = form.attr('action');
                var loadingMessage = $('#loading-message');
 
                if(loadingMessage.length == 0) {
                    form.find('.control').append('<div id="loading-message" style="display:none;padding-top:10px;">&nbsp;</div>');
                    var loadingMessage = $('#loading-message');
                }
 
                e.preventDefault();
                try{
                    loadingMessage.html('Submitting...').show();
                    $.ajax({
                        url: url,
                        dataType: 'json',
                        type: 'POST',
                        data: {email: email},
                        success: function (data){
                            if(data.status != "ERROR"){
                                $('#newsletter').val('');
                            }
                            loadingMessage.html(data.msg);
                        },
                        complete: function(){
                            setTimeout(function(){
                                loadingMessage.hide();
                            },5000);
                        }
                    });
                } catch (e){
                    loadingMessage.html(e.message);
                }
            }
            return false;
        });
    }
})

     

    Which Magento Edition Is Right For You?

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    When you decide to start your own eCommerce store first thing you need to consider is which edition will suit your business: Open Source, Commerce, or Commerce Cloud.

    Each edition provides a specific set of features. And before you select one, you should know your requirements. Let’s just understand these three editions so that it becomes easier for you to pick one for your Magento Store.

    1. Mаgеntо 2 Oреn Sоurсе Edіtіоn

    Magento 2 Open Source Edition is available for everyone to download and install for free of cost. Admin can make configuration changes in the software so that they can meet their specific requirements. If merchants want some particular advanced functionality then they can extend the basic features of Magento 2 Open Source Edition by simply installing third-party modules or custom modules that will meet your business needs. Magento does not provide any support for this edition. You can start the business with the basic features and with minimum expenses.

    Magento 2 Open Source Edition works best for:

    • For Developing Businesses
    • Startups
    • Small Stores

    2. Mаgеntо 2 Cоmmеrсе Edіtіоn

    Magento 2 Commerce Edition is also famous by the name of Magento 2 Enterprise. It gives users rich out-of-the-box features which have an unlimited ability to customize. It also comes with third-party integrations and 24/7 email support. It has features like product wishlist, flash sale, gift options, targeted promotions, rewards points, present related products for cross-selling, up-sell, Google tag manager, additional payment gateways, add a product by SKU, SDK to create custom mobile shopping apps, etc.

    With Magento 2 Commerce Edition you can also do corporate account management and customer support, company credit management, customized catalogs, returns management, and price lists. It has tools for fast ordering and processing online requests for quotes. Community Edition has a much more powerful search capability as compared to standard search.

    Further, Magento 2 Commerce Edition has one more amazing feature- Content Staging. This feature allows you to create, preview and schedule a wide range of content updates directly from the Admin Panel of your store. You can also create a dynamic page that will change automatically on scheduled dates throughout the year.

    Magento 2 Commerce Edition works best for:

    • B2B еntеrрrіѕеѕ and ѕtоrеѕ with high сuѕtоmеr trаffіс,
    • It takes care of large рrоduсt саtаlоgѕ,
    • For the company has Wіdе global рrеѕеnсе,
    • It can handle high buѕіnеѕѕ соmрlеxіtу.

    3. Mаgеntо 2 Cоmmеrсе Clоud Edіtіоn

    Magento 2 Commerce Cloud Edition is known by the name of Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition. It is an automated hosting platform that is particularly created for could solutions. It includes all the Magento 2 commerce features and also adds enhanced cloud infrastructure hosting that has Git integration and the key environment for development, live production, and staging. With this edition, merchants can code, test and deploy across the integration. Production environment and staging to make sure that performance is smooth of their store. This edition is a bit expensive than the self-hosted enterprise edition as it offers a powerful admin experience and flexibility to handle any kind of complex task.

    Magento 2 Commerce Cloud Edition works best for:

    • Large companies with complex requirements.

    Bottom Line:

    It is very important that you pay attention to your business volume, costs, and relevancy of customer support as these are the key factors when you decide on a Magento 2 edition.

    As a certified Magento expert, for small online stores, we suggest Magento 2 Community Edition as a good choice. In this edition, you can add features gradually. Magento 2 Commerce Edition should be your choice if you want to have a feature-rich store that can handle a large product catalog and massive customer traffic. If you want an integrated solution that includes hosting then we will advise you to pick Magento 2 Commerce Cloud.

    No matter which edition you choose for your business Magento 2 will give you the flexibility that you will love.

    Magento Business Intelligence: What it is and why you need it?

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    Magento Business Intelligence is the cloud-based system that can collect all your data from one source and do the analysis. If a team wants to use different KPIs then also Magento BI can allow “a single Source of truth for all”. Magento Analytics rebranded it in 2016 just to see the reflection of its superiority with the comparison to traditional analytic software so that it can provide a detailed view of a company data.

    How can Magento BI be useful?

    Magento BI provides a great data reporting that too from a clean content management system. It gathers your existing data from the system such as Google Analytics, MySQL, Facebook ads and Google for retail while the Data Warehouse consolidates into reactive data tables.

    User’s perspective:

    You can access all your critical data on a single platform which in return saves your time. You can see the large quantity of data in a clear view giving you a big picture overview or you can even break it down by source just to allow intricate fine-tuning of your sales and marketing activities.

    A user can personalise and normalize the given data at a faster rate. It’s an automated service which will de-normalises data just to optimise it for analysis. Though, its built-in interface will provide you to normalise the data all over again. It gives you the most productive output. Thus your data is clean and optimised for the software.

    How Can you put Magento BI into practice?

    Magento BI not only collate all your data in a single space but also gives you the opportunity to increase control, send reports, improves efficiency so that you can track goals and target your potential customers.

    Monitor the Data editing

    With Magento BI you can set the control over user permission which will give you higher security. When you assign someone as an admin then that person will be able to edit the company’s data, dashboards, reports and metrics. It also provides standard access to lower level employees such as they can view dashboards and send out reports which are quite a useful level of insight. The data system must have consistency throughout every step and for that, you can allow fewer users to access any data.

    Track your Goals

    You can keep an eye on business goals against your data and every year performance with user-friendly dashboards. Magento BI lets you calculate all your ROI in one place by collecting all your analytics programs. You can even a have a detailed view of all your online spending activities and its results simply by calculating ROI and Lifetime value.

    Create and Send Reports

    With Magento BI you will be able to RFM (Recency, Frequency, and Monetary) analysis for segmentation. This will let you predict future high-value customers which will be based on their previous transactions and on their average order monetary value.

    Another feature of Magento BI is its automated Email summaries. It is hard to keep an eye on every information for so long especially when you have a number of things going on so an automated BI will let you create regular, mobile-friendly and customised reports hence this way your company will be more connected.

    Make beautiful web pages

    A content management system needs a well build WebPages and this is a time-consuming step so Magento BI allows you to create WebPages without any type of coding. You can set predefined templates and styling in your software which will let you post and edit web pages whenever you want.

    If you want to give your own personal touch then you can create a specific user profile to target by using the data analysis of high-value customers. You can give an extra discount to your valuable customer by keeping the track of visitors on your website.

    Connect multiple data sources:

    • Google Analytics
    • Magento
    • Amazon Redshift
    • Experian
    • Sales Force
    • Google Analytics
    • Facebook Ads
    • Stripe
    • Magento
    • Google E-Commerce
    • File Upload
    • API

    Cohort Analysis

    Measure the effects of your growth on customer behaviour, from conversion rate optimisation to customer loyalty.

    Revenue Analytics

    Report accurately and consistently on revenue earned without needing to combine multiple reports.

    Marketing ROI

    Easily identify the channels and campaign that bring the most value into your business by comparing customer acquisition cost and lifetime customer value many collaboration tools.

    Acquire, Convert and Retain Customers Top merchants have a Customer Lifetime Value 79% higher than their peers and are using data to widen the gap. With Magento Business Intelligence you can find the customers, products and orders that drive your CLV upward.

    Magento Business Intelligence is fast, simple and easy to create reports based on website performance. Magento BI is like a data warehouse for your company which allows you to collect and analyse multiple data from a single system. With over 70 best practise reports available at your fingertips, you no longer need to be a data scientist to pull actionable metrics.

    Technical Guidelines To Overcome Magento 2 Drawbacks

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    Magento is a leading platform for E-commerce business. It helps you beat your competition but it is facing some drawbacks. You can overcome those drawbacks with the help of certified Magento Developers who are experts in their work making your path towards an advanced ecosystem.

    There is a number of improvements made in Magento 2 but still, it has some weak points. If we see from a tech point of view, you can overcome these issues with some additional efforts and proper care.

    Before you think of migration you must be aware of those issues completely and know its way to resolve them

    Migrating from Magento 1 to Magento 2 is not as simple as you upgrade the latest version of an open-source platform by simply downloading and installing the source code above the already existing version. You need to perform various tasks carefully before you carry out the migration process.

    a) Code & Design Migration
    b) Data Migration
    c) Theme Migration
    d) Extension Migration

    Feasible solution:

    You need to hire a team of experienced Magento developers who can provide you with a cost-effective quote and speedy turnaround. Your Magento store consists of a number of data that you can’t risk losing it during the migration process.

    • Product details along with images.
    • Product/service reviews and categories.
    • Customer information which you use to provide a personalized experience.
    • Quick payment facilities CMS and other existing content on your site

    Data migration from Magento 1 database to Magento 2 database is yet another issue. It is not easy because of database structure, the functioning of the database, and the different way to data is exchanged. If a minor mistake is made during the data transfer process by the Magento migration team then it may result in a heavy data loss and cost has to be taken care of by the Magento merchant/owner

    Feasible Solutions:

    During the Magento 2 data migration, developers need to use proper migration tools which are provided by the official platform and also from third-party developers. Your Migration team will cross-check the consistency between Magento 1 and Magento 2 with regards to the database structure. After that, they will track the progress of the data transfer and create logs right before running data verification tests.

    To ease the data loss risks, Magento developers need to migrate Magento 1 store data to the development server where further migration process and the test will be done thoroughly. Once the team gets the desired result then it will shift from a development server to a live server on the E-commerce site.

    Magento Themes Migration Issues

    Earlier it was easy for developers to migrate themes from one version to the next because the theme provider offers version compatibility soon after the release. Just with a code moving you get the existing theme in the new version

    Sadly, the process is not at all same when you migrate Magento 1. to Magento 2.x. Migrating from Magento 1 theme to Magento 2 platform is impossible. To carry out the migration you need completely discard the existing theme and then work for the possible solutions to install the latest Magento 2 theme for your advanced online storefront

    Feasible Solutions:

    No.1: Find the latest theme on the Magento marketplace.

    Always look for an advanced and improved Magento theme compare to your previous theme. In terms of theme, take the benefit of additional offerings of the Magento 2 platform. You can go for a free theme or paid one as per your requirement because free themes have certain issues and limitations whereas paid one fit all your expectations.

    No.2: Get the theme that matches your current theme.

    Changing the entire theme may have a high risk for an eCommerce store. They aim for the same look in the new upgraded version of Magento 2 store so during the migration process you need to ask Magento 2 developers to create the same theme or new design on Magento 2 as per your existing Magento 1 theme.

    You have two alternatives, you can design a theme from scratch or you can customize the available themes in the market. This will take more time like from days to a month but it is worth spending

    No.3: Design Theme Right from the Scratch

    You can opt for an innovative theme for your Magento 2 store right from the beginning if you don’t want to use existing theme templates which are available in the market. So get your own theme to secure a high Return On Investment (ROI) from it.

    Problems during Magento Extension migration

    Same as the Magento theme, Magento 2.x does not support any extension existing on Magento 1.x. so, you need to take the same steps which we have seen for the Magento 2 theme migration

    Feasible Solutions:

    You only have to install a certain number of extensions for quality and necessary features to enhance your store because Magento 2 already has massive built-in capabilities, functionality, and features which reduces the number of more extensions

    Challenges during Magento Code Migration

    Magento open source code is not easy for experienced Magento developers. Hence, during the Magento development and migration process, this custom code becomes a big issue and makes developers rework custom modules for the new site.

    Feasible Solutions

    There are some code conflicts that are unavoidable to solve and it needs the development of modules from the start. To ease the issue upfront, developers can make use of Magento Code Migration Tools.

    SEO and Ranking are affected by Magento Migration Process

    Magento migration can highly affect your SEO features and functionality. You may also see its efforts on technical SEO.

    Feasible Solutions:

    Soon after the migration, you must go through the entire process of carrying out technical and design. You need to start your SEO process from scratch.

    Migrating to Magento 2 will take a lot of time.

    Migrating from one version to another version will take a good amount of time as the entire migration process is very lengthy and it faces a lot of issues which we have seen above. It needs proper attention and efforts to overcome everything successfully

    Feasible Solutions:

    One to three months is a standard migration period for Magento. Further, it depends on the volume, size, and complexities of the database in the current store. By implementing advanced tools and techniques one can reduce time to market. We advise our Magento merchants to prefer migration during their slack season or low-sale season. This way they can give more time to the process.

    Few more Magento 2 Drawbacks

    Apart from the above-mentioned Magento migration issues. We have noticed several other issues as well which need your consideration.

    For example:

    a) Magento 2 Speed Issue:

    After the release of Magento 2 number of complaints was in terms of the slow loading of the web page. Though by default, Magento 2 is at all slow it is just a few setting mistakes which are making it slow while loading.

    Feasible Solution:

    • Always update your Magento 2 version
    • Use updated PHP version
    • Enable varnish cache
    • Choose flat products and categories
    • Opt content delivery network
    • Do not use heavy themes and always optimize images
    • Install non-bug extensions

    b) Cost of Magento Development

    Magento development agency can not declare cost slabs because each project is different and unique and so the development team. Cost depends on the size and customization of the Magento stores.

    Take Away

    Before the Magento platform completely stops its support for Magento 1 store at that moment you have to migrate your store to Magento 2. Therefore you need to overcome whatever issues you are facing or forcing you to be alive on Magento 1 store because Magento 2 is better than Magento 1 but it is also true that the migration process is weak.

    We have seen that Magento 1.x to Magento 2.x migration is not at all easy and quick owing to its different structure. Get in touch with us to eliminate those hurdles you are facing because your store demands special care and our team consists of expert Magento developers who will always provide you right guidance keeping your requirements in mind.

    Why and when do you need Magento Commerce Cloud?

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    In 2016, Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition was launched. Before the edition retailers had to use their own hosting via a hosting partner or their own servers. We all know the Entеrрrіѕе Cloud Edіtіоn by the name of Mаgеntо Cоmmеrсе Clоud.

    AWS Cloud Infrastructure

    Magento Enterprise Edition is built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure layer containing global availability and scalability for 24×7 support. Magento Commerce Cloud is a completely managed and automated hosting platform for Magento Enterprise Edition. It has tools for rapid deployment, advanced lifecycle management, constant integration, and environment and performance management.

    A combined git repository tree makes the code merging and deployment process easy as it reduces the hassle which is involved in hosting sites for a number of countries and increases the speed of production deployment.

    Better content delivery and optimization with ‘Fastly’

    Your store performance gets better with cloud infrastructure. You can use Fastly for image optimization as it delivers high-quality images which you will require for your customers to browse and purchase products from edge servers in the Content Delivery Network (CDN). It is fast and provides secured content delivery. If your Web Application Firewall is powered by “Fastly” then it will stop malevolent traffic from entering the site. Your store is secured with Magento Commerce Cloud.

    Scale on demand

    To keep pace with demand, Magento Commerce Cloud will take care of scaling your online store and it will also keep on customizing and optimizing to keep up with the bigger competitors. Magento Enterprise customers have been greatly benefited from its results.

    If you don’t have time to build your own cloud infrastructure then we strongly suggest you go for Magento Commerce Cloud. Even if you are not willing to outsource cloud infrastructure management then also Magento Commerce Cloud is right for you. If you only focus on a single region and your site has relatively stable traffic then you should consider Magento Commerce Cloud as Conventional hosting might cost you a bit.

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