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My company are using magento for as a backend for an e commerce website and im supposed to start working with it too but i got lost while trying to find a good source to understand it As a beginner what sources/ courses/ youtube videos or literally anything would you recommend Also any advice would be appreciated

Thanks

I am using Cloudways for Magento hosting, but what are others using in 2025? I haven’t really searched for alternatives in a while. In Cloudways easiness, support, performance and scalability is ok. Maybe the availability of support would be the most important of those. When shit hits the fan support must be readily available.

Hello everyone,

I know the title might sound a bit strong, but I wanted to share my honest experience after over a decade working with Magento.

I’ve been a certified Magento developer since version 1.6 and have dedicated a large part of my career to building and maintaining Magento sites for clients. Over the years, I’ve run into a consistent set of challenges, especially with training clients, handling frequent bugs, and managing increasingly complex updates as the platform evolved. Maybe I’m not the best developer or customer service expert, but I’ve noticed that friends who chose platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce, or WooCommerce seem to have had a much smoother ride.

Those platforms may be simpler in some ways, but that simplicity seems to translate into real-world benefits. It’s easier for clients to use, train their teams, and make changes without needing extensive developer support. That’s something I’ve really come to appreciate.

Lately it’s felt like Magento, especially Adobe Commerce, has been shifting focus away from small, experienced developers. Things that used to be simple now feel more locked down or overcomplicated. Basic integrations like Google Analytics, adding simple scripts (CSP), or even managing cache and reindexing can turn into major roadblocks for clients. And with the gradual removal of built-in payment options and other “security” roadblocks, it’s become harder to deliver fast, affordable solutions. Something that could take seconds takes a day of development, and this does not sound good to clients.

I’ve recently taken on a few Shopify Plus clients and started learning their infrastructure in depth. While Liquid takes some getting used to, I’ve been impressed with how approachable it is for both developers and store owners. Same for WooCommerce (bizarre to see even a simple order column requires a plugin).

At the end of the day, I just feel tired. Tired of defending a platform I used to love, tired of jumping through hoops to keep things running smoothly, and tired of watching clients struggle. I truly believed in Magento, but it feels like it’s no longer the right fit for SMBs or for developers like me who aren’t part of a large agency or enterprise.

I lost nearly all my clients to other platforms. I blamed myself for a long time for not providing a good service. The fear of getting hacked is also another issue. I had many ex-clients injected with bunch of random stuff in the past.

Thanks for listening. I’m curious if others here have felt the same shift or maybe found a different path that worked better for them.

I’m trying to let users add rich text to form fields dynamically.
Froala works, but curious if anyone here has built something like this? Tips, lessons learned?

So I was struggling with a Magento coding issue earlier and, after not finding anything useful with Google, turned to ChatGPT.

After it’s third attempt to try and help me I told it it had again failed and it replied

Ahhh Magento, the gift that keeps on giving! 😅

I think AI understands more than we think!

hi, i want to build a multi-vendor ecommerce site that operates like ebay where you can buy and sell used items, do auctions and manage your own store.

would you say Magento will be good to build on? do you have any extensions you recommend for multi vendor?

Via Damien Retzinger on LinkedIn:

In Magento v2.4.8, the names of all Cart Rule and Catalog Rule promotions are public and enumerable by default via a single network request (per type).

Are you a customer of a store that uses Adobe Commerce? Guess what — all promotions that store has configured are now publicly accessible. Just pick a URL and fire away:

[see code snippet below]

Not everything about the promotion is exposed — only the name — but that’s still significant. If a merchant includes the promo code in the promotion name (e.g., SPRING20, CHAMPIONSHIP10, 2025BLOWOUT), that code is now public knowledge.

This includes past promotions that are still active as well as upcoming ones.

– Want to wait for a better deal? Query the API to see if there’s an upcoming promotion.

– Want to know if there’s a TESTFREEORDER code that the merchant uses for testing? Now you can.

Coupons.com, Honey, Groupon, RetailMeNot — they’re going to have a field day.

Want to disable it? [see second snippet below]

If you’re an Adobe Commerce merchant, notify your team and open a support ticket ASAP.Good luck running parallel or stealth promotions with this enabled.

POC:
curl --location 'somemagentostoreurl/graphql' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"query":"query {n allCartRules {n namen }n}","variables":{}}'

Fix:

bin/magento config:set promo/graphql/share_all_sales_rule 0
bin/magento config:set catalog/rule/share_all_catalog_rules 0

Creating a post here for open discussion. Hyvä Commerce is noted as Magento Open Source & Adobe Commerce compatible.

• LinkedIn post

🚨 Adobe Commerce 2.4.8 is here!

https://preview.redd.it/4cxjnkmagzte1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=b162cc61abd8e62aa97323072b7e14515ebf06e1

And it’s packed with power under the hood and game-changing B2B features.

🔧 Under-the-hood upgrades:

PHP 8.4 support (⚡ dev speed boost!)

• Say goodbye to PHP 8.1, officially unsupported by Dec 2025

• New support for MySQL 8.4+ and MariaDB 11.4+

• Improved encryption key management via CosmicSting

• RequireJS optimizations = faster load times 🚀

• OpenSearch 2.x is now mandatory (bye Elasticsearch)

🧩 Cool, merchant-friendly updates:

• GraphQL just got a serious speed boost 🔄

• Braintree now supports Apple/Google Pay with item details & tracking

• (🔥 B2B) Frontend admins can manage their own company hierarchies

• (🔥 B2B) Sellers can now attach DocuSign/Adobe Sign docs to quotes

✨ Is this the best-ever release of Adobe Commerce? What do you think?

Hi, I’m curious to know how you typically test Magento Apps?

What testing tools and frameworks do you use for this purpose mostly:

• PHPUnit
• MFTF
• Selenium
• Codeception

🤔 Do you use JavaScript test frameworks like Playwright, Cypress for the frontend testing part?

I just had a strange call from Paypal customer services and also message in my paypal inbox (on paypal). Regarding that they are wanting Magento 2 users to upgrade by the 1st May.
This confused me of course as Paypal as by default integrated into Magento 2 as a payment method.
And looking at the link they provide , it’s a 3rd party developer extension (IWD Agency – who i’ve used before on their infinity scroll extension when I was using M1)

Not only that but it’s not just an upgrade of the payment method BUT a complete checkout replacement extension so something is not sitting right with me on this as it would replace my current one page checkout.

Has anyone else had this message? (see below – taken my name out)

Dear XXXXX,

My name is Keara and I’m on the Outreach Team from PayPal.

We are calling our merchants that are on an old version of the PayPal checkout to advise them to upgrade by May 1st. We want to ensure that we can support all customers as best as possible and our older integration may become unsupported.

Please click the link below and follow the steps in order to upgrade the checkout:

Magento : https://commercemarketplace.adobe.com/iwd-dominate-saas.html

You can forward this information to your developer if needed. Please reply if you would like a call back or need additional support.

PayPal appreciates your partnership!

Kind Regards,

Keara
PayPal Merchant Outreach

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Hey Magento community. Just wanted to put this job posting here. This is a remote position. Would love to find someone with both Adobe Commerce and site search experience. Send me your resume directly. $75-$85k plus bonus and benefits. Thanks!

https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/JUS1001JUSTM/JobBoard/2d5c8dc9-71e2-46d7-aa3d-305883f6102b/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=9f9b3262-25bb-4394-93ec-5cb44dd2738b

Hey,

I’ll be migrating my online store from Magento to Shopify Plus in couple of months. I have 100+ products and store generates <20M$/year from 20+ countries. My main channel is Meta (~5M$ annual spend) and I want to understand what to expect from Meta Pixel during the migration. Assuming everything technically is set right – what to expect from Meta Pixel? Increase in CPMs/CPAs, if yes then for how long? The page will be improved from performance, usability, UX and design perspective.

Edit: I’ll use the same old Pixel I’ve been using on Magento

Hello guys,

I have an issue during the oauth1 flow done in python 3.11.

At the “/oauth/token/request” call, when I am usgin the consumer key & consumer secret to retrieve request tokens, I am getting “401 oauth_problem=The+signature+is+invalid.+Verify+and+try+again”.

If I am doing exactly the same flow on python 3.9 everything works fine, but something seems to be off on 3.11.

I’ve tried different approaches, relying on requests-oauthlib & oauthlib modules or not using these modules, but requests, urllib, hmac, hashlib. The approaches worked on python 3.9 but not on 3.11, getting into the mentioned error. I’ve also checked modules version to make sure they are in-line, tried to use the latest versions also on 3.11, but still got the same.

Therefore I was wondering if somebody encountered that or might know what can cause the issue.

Thank you!