There are eCommerce stores which sell a wide variety of products like food, personal care, electronics, and so on. On those stores, visitors want to be able to search by a specific category. This can be achieved by adding a new feature: search by department or category. In this quick tutorial I will explain the base concept of how to do it using Solr search engine as an example.
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This article is sort of a follow up on my previous article on custom form validation, which explains step-by-step what it takes to validate any form. The Magento 2 way, of course.
But what if you have to implement another field that has to be in a particular format or that kind of rule does not even exist? Well… Keep reading, my dear visitor, keep reading.
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Sloan Express is a family-owned business with deep roots in the agricultural industry that have been serving the needs of farmers worldwide for over 80 years. Located in Central Illinois, Sloan Express is the area leader offering new agricultural parts that are equal to or better than the original equipment part. They sell directly to farmers, implement dealers and repair shops.
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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The default description, default title, and default keywords input fields in Magneto administration used to create SEO issues for store owners ever since version 1.X of Magento. Magento versions 2.X are no exception to this issue.
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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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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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Hello, in this article we will cover how to add custom entries in existing system configuration located in Stores->Configuration.
We have already covered how to create Magento2 module, so here we will go straight to the point. Replace Inchoo/Test from entries in this article to your module name.
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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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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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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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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Layouts play a major roll in Magento. This roll is well known from Magento 1x layout approach. With Magento 2 couple of things are changed and improved. Really, we finally have on our disposal useful layout manipulation options.
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One of most important parts of every store is its Search functionality. Implementing a more advanced search solution can have positive and big impact on search function, which leads to significant increase in conversion rate. After all, visitors trust in search results. If your store’s search experience is good, users will use it more than browsing by clicking through categories.
With artificial intelligence and self learning processes, search engines became even more powerful and provide us with features that were not possible before.
Klevu is one of those search engines – it is fast (really fast), it provides high level of customisation and most important – it learns from your customers and self-improves which results in more accurate search results and increase in revenue.
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Looking at the old articles on our website that long for a rewrite, I sometimes stumble upon a gem that can be useful. This is a rewrite of the article originally written for Magento 1 – Managing navigation links in the account dashboard
In this article I’ll demonstrate how to manage navigation links in your customer’s account dashboard.
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