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Is Hyvä Your Next Magento Frontend Solution?

Inchoo meets Hyvä

Magento, a global name in the eCommerce platform arena, has been the backbone for countless online stores since the year of Inchoo’s inception – 2008. Yet, despite its robust backend capabilities, Magento’s frontend has historically been its Achilles’ heel. In this article, we’ll delve into why Hyvä theme has emerged as the premier choice for many Magento stores.

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Add static content in Magento Checkout address form

static content m2 checkout inchoo feat

If you are reading this, you are probably looking for an easy way to add static content to the Checkout address fieldset.

If you open the Magento Checkout module, you will notice technology complexity of the Magento Checkout. When you consider Knockout, HTML, PHTML, XML, JS – such a mix of technologies can often make a simple straightforward task seem super complicated.

Usually, if you need to edit something on the Checkout, you need to create a custom module, which will override the Layout Processor. This approach makes sense if the Checkout modification is complex and there needs to be some kind of a dynamic.

But for simple tasks, such as updating input placeholders, adding the notes to the inputs or adding the text between inputs – custom modules are an overkill.

Let me share with you a simple frontend solution for situations when we need to add some text or an image banner, for example between the Last Name input and the Company input.

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Moving the Add to Cart validation error message on product page

Moving the Add to Cart validation error message on product page

One quite often overlooked, but very important issue might happen because of design changes in the Add to Cart section on the Product Detail Page (PDP) in Magento 2.

This section is very likely to vary from project to project, but regardless of the scope of work and the volume of these changes, error validation on the Quantity field must not cause any issues whatsoever.

In this article, I will show you what needs to be done in such a case, which should be very easy and straightforward to implement in your custom theme.

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Lazy load your images and iframes

lazyload images and iframes

Lazy loading is an effective way to improve your frontend performance. And that’s especially important on eCommerce websites. In this article, you will read (and learn) how to reduce page load time by loading your

  1. images on scroll and
  2. iframes on demand.

Let’s get started with lazy load!

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How did we standardize Magento 2 frontend development?

How did we standardize Magento 2 frontend development?

Many Frontend developers in the Magento community felt a certain level of pain when they started working on their first Magento 2 project. So did we! “This is just a start. I will be faster on the next one“, was a common statement. However, new projects arrived and frontend development was still not as fast as it was with Magento 1.

To improve the speed, efficiency, joy of work and team synergy, our frontend team decided to refine our development processes. After a few completed projects, we got an idea of how to do things better and quicker. Modernizing the approach we’ve been using.

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Magento PWA Studio: Routing and Root Components

Magento PWA Studio: Routing and Root Components

Routing in React is quite complex, and trying to adapt it to work with Magento 2 can be a very challenging task, considering how many URL-related functionalities (like URL rewrites) Magento 2 offers. Luckily, Magento PWA Studio comes with a built-in solution for handling Magento 2 URL-s which is very flexible. In this article, we are going to take a look at the Magento PWA Studio routing and Root Components concept.

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Review: Reacticon – Power to the front-end developers!

PWA Reacticon

Ever since Magento announced their PWA (Progressive Web App) Studio and PWA solutions like Deity started gaining traction, people were more than eager to learn more about how PWA would affect Magento platform and the world of eCommerce in general. Reacticon sought to provide some more in depth information about technologies that will become integral part of our workflow in the near future.

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Sticky Sidebar in Magento

Sticky sidebar

An idea for writing this blog post inspired me for implementing this feature on two Magento 1 projects, on first project it was one of many changes that were part of A/B testing, on the second one it was part of creating a new visual identity for clients store.

So, what basically is sticky sidebar and why should it be used to improve your conversion rate? Well, just like sticky header, the purpose of sticky sidebar is to have the sidebar element displayed in the viewport at all times (or an at least, when some conditions are met). This is ideal place to move the product options (configurable dropdowns, image swatches etc), add to cart button or any other element that is important for your product. With this being said, your customer is free to browse all of the content on your product and once the decision has been made to purchase the product, the add to cart button is just waiting to be clicked on!

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Reorder input fields on Shipping and Billing step in Magento 2

Reorder input fields on Shipping and Billing step in Magento 2

With time we are becoming more and more familiar with Magento 2 Checkout. And we are trying to build our knowledge furthermore. Hopefully, this article will help you in that process. With this article, we’ll learn how to change inputs fields ordering on the Checkout page.

If you ever tested Magento 2 you are familiar with default Magento 2 Checkout and the default fields sort ordering. If you wish to want to recall it, check this screenshot:

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Create a multi-language store in Magento 2 – Part 2

Create a multi-language store in Magento 2 Part 2

In the first post from this series, we’ve focused more on theory and technical background behind multi-language Magento2 store. Now, we’ll create Magento2 store with additional French language. First thing is to go to the administration and create a new store view. Before we proceed, please check documentation where is explained a difference between store view, store and website, old but still relevant, http://docs.magento.com/m1/ce/user_guide/store-operations/stores-multiple.html.

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How to improve usability for Magento 2 add to cart process

How to improve usability for Magento 2 add to cart process

Magento 2 introduced a new and improved way for adding products to the cart. The system now offers complete asynchronous (ajax) process, although the process itself is not activated in default application state. It requires some manual adjustments in the script call inside the templates. Someone would think, ok, we will simply modify the template script calls and that’s it! We successfully improved the process. Unfortunately, not so fast! There is still more room left for improvement. If you’re interested, let’s find out what’s left on the table.

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Magento 2 Widgets – gallery widget explained – client testimonials showcase

Magento 2 Widgets – gallery widget explained – client testimonials showcase

Further to our previous post about Magento gallery widget (in which we explained how to build image gallery) we’d like to show another possible use of this widget. Because it’s based on Fotorama plugin, gallery widget is able to work not just with images but with other HTML content as well. And we’ll demonstrate how by building a client testimonials gallery which we’re going to display in the footer of our web shop.

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Adding Voice Search to Magento 2

Adding Voice Search to Magento 2

Introduction of Web Speech API to Chrome and Firefox opens up some new possibilities in general interaction with websites and, more importantly, accessibility. Web Speech API includes two main components: Speech Recognition and Voice Synthesis. In this article, we are going to use the Speech Recognition API to implement basic Voice Search in Magento 2 header search.

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Customising product info tabs in Magento 2

Customising product info tabs in Magento 2

Whether horizontal (which are more common) or vertical, tabs are a great way to avoid information overload by organizing large content into easily digestible chunks of data. When done right they provide all the information (related to one specific subject) without overwhelming users, allowing them to quickly navigate through the content by showing data from just one tab at a time. From the UX standpoint tabs’ main purpose is to simply facilitate access to information and it’s also useful to know that they don’t have any negative effect on your SEO and site ranking in any way.

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Empower Magento2 UI library

Empower Magento2 UI library

Magento2 came with very “controversial” frontend architecture approach. We will not discuss that but we will try to explain how to empower current Magento2 UI library to achieve most common frontend task.

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Magento 2 with Slick Carousel

Magento 2 with Slick Carousel

Slick is a great Carousel plugin good for any product list like Most Popular, Featured, Upsell, Cross sell products, or any other custom product list. I will guide you with step by step on how to add Slick Carousel and apply it on product list widget on Homepage.

Lets get started!

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Magento 2 Custom CMS page layout

Magento 2 Custom CMS page layout

We’ve had a request to add a new custom layout for CMS pages in one Magento shop.
This can be very useful and can save you a lot of time for different static pages of your shop.

In this example we’ll create a layout named Inchoo Layout.

We should focus on two xml files: layouts.xml and page_layout/inchoo-layout.xml under Magento_Theme folder.

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Validate a custom form in Magento 2

Validate a custom form in Magento 2

This article will cover the fundamentals of validating any form in Magento 2.

The contact form on Contact us page will be used and modified for the purpose of the article. The form itself can be found in the following paths, depending on the type of installation you are using:

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CSS Media queries in Magento 2

CSS Media queries in Magento 2

It’s highly unlikely that there are some frontend developers involved in a responsive website development who are not familiar with the concept of CSS Media queries. In this post, I’ll be looking at Magento 2 way of implementing this functionality in its default theme development workflow.

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Adding videos to product page in Magento2

Adding videos to product page in Magento2

Today is even impossible to imagine a good product detail page without product video/s. In Magento 2, adding videos to the product details page is quite easy. The major problem is in most cases with an initial setup. Most of the product videos already exist online, either on youtube.com or vimeo.com. In the first case, it’s the most popular video publishing platform and for vimeo.com we can say it is more or less dedicated to professionals and photo/video enthusiast.

Google, company behind youtube, set few rules regarding sharing and embedding videos to other domains, in our case our online store. They require to have enabled youtube API key if you want to use embedding youtube videos beyond simple grabbing embed code from youtube videos page.

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Bypassing Magento 2 layout update restrictions in Admin

Bypassing Magento 2 layout update restrictions in Admin

Magento’s layout system has been vastly improved in Magento 2 to be more accessible, more powerful and to be more streamlined. But, for some reason, only a very small subset of layout functions is made available for use in Magento 2 Admin (category layout XML updates, to be more precise). In this article, we’re going to show a very simple way of bypassing this pesky restriction.

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More/Less functionality in Magento2

More/Less functionality in Magento2

While working on a Magento 2 project for our client, I was supposed to create more/less button, which is not part of neither Blank or Luma themes. The button should be on product page, but only inside of Details tab on desktop (accordion on mobile), which displays product description field in Admin.

Before we get started, I have created a custom theme (Inchoo/MoreLess that is extending Blank theme), make sure to update the correct path for your theme as we go along. The code was written on latest (2.1.6) installation with sample data.

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Pagination with rel=”next” and rel=”prev” in Magento 2

Pagination with rel=”next” and rel=”prev” in Magento 2

Out of the box, Magento 2 offers fair amount of search engine optimization options but when it comes to category pages, we only have option to add canonical meta tags. In today’s blog post, we will try to spice that up a bit by implementing our own variation of canonical tag and by adding rel=”next” and rel=”prev” tags to help bots with paginated content.

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