Kategorie: Developer Blog

  • OpenMage LTS

    The OpenMage LTS (Long Term Support) repository aims to be a dependably patched archive of the Magento 1 CE (Community Edition) core releases maintained by Lee Saferite, David Robinson, Daniel Fahlke and the Magento community of agencies, freelancers and module vendors. These sources should stay as compatible to the sources released by Magento as possible. Pull…

  • Magento PWA Studio 2.1.0

    After the release of Magento PWA (Progressive Web App) Studio 2.0.0 on February 21, the latest version, 2.1.0 was released only 1 1/2 months later, last Thursday, April 4, 2019. This extensive release article was first published by Lori Krell on the Magento DevBlog. It shows what’s new in 2.1.0, but also very nicely introduces…

  • Magento Translation Community Project

    Today, I joined Magento 2 architect and community engineering team member Volodymyr Kublytskyi and other community members in the first meeting for the new Magento translation community project. I’ve been maintaining the German Magento 2 translation for Switzerland (de_CH) on Github since the beginning of Magento 2. It’s a fork (modified copy) of the German…

  • Magento PWA Studio 2.0.0

    Yesterday, Senior Magento Frontend Architect James Zetlen released Magento PWA (Progressive Web Apps) Studio 2.0.0. He stated on Twitter that they are now keeping APIs stable, using semantic versioning and think it’s time to start building stuff with it if you have not already been starting to use it. He posted the following release video,…

  • Docker LAMP Stack for WordPress and Magento

    Devilbox is a modern dockerized LAMP and MEAN stack for local development on Linux, macOS and Windows. It allows you to work on an unlimited number of projects without having to install any external software and without having to configure any virtual hosts. It’s a very flexible development stack that can also be used offline.…

  • The Past, Present, and Future of WooCommerce

    I was lucky enough to attend and write about the last WooCommerce Developers Conference (WooConf) in Seattle (2017) and the first one in San Francisco (2014). For 2018, WooCommerce didn’t put together another WooConf. They haven’t made any decisions beyond 2018, but they stated that they are currently focusing on the growing and changing needs…

  • Benenson Gutenberg WordPress Theme

    Enterprise WordPress development agency Big Bite built an entirely new site platform for Nobel Peace Prize Winner Amnesty International, compatible with the new Gutenberg editor. Benenson v1.0.4 was just released yesterday with many improvements, new features and fixes (changelog below). They focused on developing custom blocks and a core theme that serve as the heart…

  • The State of PWA in Magento

    The last Swiss Magento Usergroup Meetup in 2018 took place last Wednesday at the office of eCommerce agency UFirst Group in Zürich. It was dedicated to Progressive Web Applications (PWA). Generally speaking a PWA is a software application, written in the Web platform and running in the browser, that behaves like a cloud-delivered native application.…

  • WooCommerce 3.4.6 Security Update

    WooCommerce 3.4.6 was released on October 11 with 3 fixes. One of the fixes is security related, therefore the update should be installed as soon as possible. The vulnerability is not very dangerous, because it only allowed Shop Manager to exceed their capabilities and perform malicious actions. Now Shop Managers can no longer edit all…

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