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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Magento Coding Standards
Everyone has their own style of writing code and there’s always a debate which one’s is the correct one or which one’s makes the most sense. For that reason rules are brought that need to be followed that define code standards and enhance source code readability.
Read moreMagento 2 widgets – gallery widget explained
In this series of blog posts we are going to cover Magento jQuery widgets, and the first one we’ll talk about is gallery widget. As you probably know gallery widget is used on product page for displaying product images that we uploaded through Magento admin.
Read moreMagento Solution Partners readiness and expertise with Magento 2
With more and more projects being migrated to Magento 2, and showcased by partners and Magento themselves, what’s the status of Magento 2 adoption within the partner ecosystem?
Is there any way merchants can tell “heaven from hell” when deciding what partner to go with when planning and delivering a Magento 2 project?
Did you know that (only) 72% of Magento solution partners are Magento 2 trained?
Read moreWhy you should go to MageTestFest if you are a Magento developer
When a conference is advertised as “Magento. Software Testing. Party.” and Yireo stands behinds its organization, there is really not much left to say in order to convince you to attend MageTestFest that’s happening November 15th – 18th 2017!
There are no doubts – you must clear your schedule and head off to this international developer oriented event that has one single focus: TESTING! Vital for clean coding, testing is a topic that can always break the unbearable silence among developers that are just meeting each other.
Read moreKeeping an eye on small things in eCommerce projects
When managing projects, one usually focuses on big things: biggest costs, biggest features, biggest risks, etc. The same is with building an eCommerce site – the biggest, most important things are, well, most important.
But large topics are not the be-all and end-all of the project.
In this post, we will illustrate how tiny issues can have an outsized influence on the project. Through analysis of several examples from our experience, we will try to understand how small perturbations shape the course of the project.
So let’s start with something totally relevant, let’s start with – Napoleon.
Read moreCustomising product info tabs in Magento 2 (part 2)
In this follow up on our first blog post about customising product info tabs in Magento 2 we’ll be talking about reordering tabs. Again it’s a fairly easy task. We already know that we’ll be looking at product page layout and template files in Magento Catalog module.
Read moreSolr and Magento – search by department
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.
Read moreBuild your custom form validation rule
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.
Read moreCase Study: Migration from Magento 1 to Magento 2 for Sloan Express
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.
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.
Read moreHow to modify default meta description, title, and keywords in Magento 2
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.
Read moreWhy not start using Magento2 UI library, it’s easy and fun
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.
Read moreMagento 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!
Read moreAdding custom entries to admin system configuration
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.