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I have a little more than a year of experience in web development (Laravel, Angular, Python, etc.), and before that a year of game development. I’ll be starting a new position as a Magento Backend Developer.

I’ve heard of the infamy of Magento and how it is “over-engineered”, “bloated”, and has a steep learning curve. Which and how much of these are true? What are some of the beginner caveats I should look out for? Is the backend as bad as the frontend?

Also, I know its support for Windows is deprecated now, how do I get started on developing Magento locally on my Windows machine? Docker? VM?

Thanks!

Hi, i’ve a store based on M2 and a issue with language switcher only on mobile, url is correct in inspector, but when i switch language it redirect on a casual product/page. Do you have any idea what it can be?

I’m so proud to be hosting #MM20UK online this year – all proceeds are being donated to JH’s selected charities, helping those left most vulnerable due to COVID-19 ♥️

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It is a wonderful event that brings together everyone in the eCommerce industry from retailers to developers to marketeers. There is an incredible line up of speakers across 4 tracks so you can expect to be informed and inspired by experts from across the globe 🌍

As it’s all for a great cause, tickets are pay what you can with the suggested donation being £20. Go sign up now! I’ll meet you there 👩‍💻

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Hi All, I am a Magento noob. We have had a big sale with Affiliates through Rakuten and I need to check that we haven’t applied the discount to the shipping and hence overpaying our affiliates. When I export the data from orders as a CSV it doesn’t include the field for shipping costs. Is there a way that I can add this field to the report?

Currently, I am manually clicking through thousands of orders to see if we charged shipping or not.

Adobe tends to change their prices and product mix quite often, may those who know share fresh information on that?

I’ve been using MAMP Pro which is not working out to well. I than set up a vagrant instance with similar result, 20+ sec page loads or timing out, just everything very slow.

I’m on a 2016 MBP 16gb and use to developing WP sites utilizing a NPM+Gulp+BrowserSync workflow and 1-2s pageloads on a PHP file update, but this is getting ridiculous. What works for you guys? Any insight is greatly appreciated, thanks!

Zuckerburg announced yesterday Facebook shops; in the post he specifically mentions several other major e-commerce platforms, but Magento is nowhere to be found. Do you think Magento will integrate with the platform?

FB Post by Zuckerburg: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10111930156208121

Is it really just as simple as “goes from one table to the other”? Is there any loss of data whatsoever? We’re about to do it for 300,000 orders.

Also, have you seen much performance difference after doing this? I’ve warned our team that a better idea is to optimize the columns on the Order Maintenance page, and we’ll do that eventually, but I am worried that after we do this, NOTHING will change…

Do you guys believe that the future of eCommerce lies in a very simple but powerful app in our mobile? Yes, it is our communication app like Whatsapp, Telegram, iMessage or others based on the popularity in your geography.

We are doing an anonymous survey in order to understand from the eCommerce community here. If you own an eCommerce store, please help by responding here https://forms.gle/NmXVB27pybYkzrxY6

Thanks in Advance!

Lots of threads recently have been shitting on Magento 2’s performance and in each of the threads there are comments saying that a badly-written theme by shitty developers can make or break a website.

But none of the comments actually go into detail about what makes a bad theme so bad, and I’ve not seen a guide about how to write a good, performant theme.

So what are some mistakes which these “bad developers” make which affect performance so much? And how can a bad developer turn into a good developer?

TL;DR How make Magento 2 go fast?

I know that these errors in the error logs is showing that the local.xml cannot be accessed and can be safely ignored.

The problem is that it is checking every second, so I was wondering if this was common or if I have something configured wrong. I am trying to clean up this project I took over from another admin and some of this is new to me.

Can this self check be dialed back to check less frequently?

Hi, I’m trying to replace the standard menu in topmenu.phtml with a custom dropdown-menu. Therefore my plan was to use the dropdown-widget.

I put the HTML markup in topmenu.phtml which works fine but I don’t get the Javascript part. There is the documentation on how to initialize Javascript but I’m completely lost on this. How would I get the dropdown working? Putting

$('.magento__dropdown-widget').dropdown(); 

just in <script> tags does not work, obviously.

Would be very nice if someone could help me out. Thank you very much.

I want the customer to agree privacy policy and custom message as a simple checkbox. I did checkbox how to display as PopUP if the customer navigates to checkout page.

Just in case anyone missed it, if you installed SUPEE-11314, apparently, you’re going to want to revert and install v2 of this patch.

The original patch was released April 28th, and the new version was published on May 12th.

https://jetrails.com/blog/magento-releases-2-3-5-and-1-9-4-5-ce-1-14-4-5-ee-supee-11314-and-pwa-studio-6-0-0/