Dennis Walters

  Magento comes with many powerful features and functions out-of-the-box to sell goods online. It provides merchants with the ease to handle their eCommerce store operations. And due to its flexibility, scalability, and significant performance, it is loved by over 200,000 merchants worldwide. In addition to that, Magento is the first choice for new entrepreneurs’ to start their eCommerce journey. It’s their go-to platform to start a new venture. Even though the flexibility it offers, Magento is quite a complex platform and needs the hands of experts with in-depth knowledge to build a full-fledged visually stunning eCommerce store. Thus, you often need Magento developers that can take care of your Magento eCommerce store right from designing through developing to deploying and managing. But to find such expert developers is kind of hard today, as there are thousands of developers online pretending to be the expert. Also, most eCommerce entrepreneurs seem confused before they hir...

  The much-awaited holiday season of 2020 is around the corner now and its making people wonder how it will be. And the only word to describe it is unique. Consumers want to end the year on a good note by buying goods for themselves or gifting it to their loved ones. Whereas the brand owners want to end the year by gaining lost sales. But how to effectively market in this pandemic stricken world? As the COVID-19 spread is not flatting down, the vaccine is taking time and also social distancing and lockdown norms are in place. And due to that, the world is going through an economic crisis. However, one survey reveals that most ecommerce owners are expecting a rise in the sales this year compared to last year and are investing in upgrading their online store to handle to possible surge in traffic and orders. This unique holiday season is likely to experience a good amount of online shopping and swarm pullers like Black Friday and Cyber Monday are expected to show tremendous growt...

  On the days around 14 th Sept 2020, an unknown group of hackers tried to hack into almost 3000 Magento stores. As per the experts at Sensec, this attack on Magento stores is by far the largest one identified. And most of the Magento stores were running on the End of Life version of Magento 1.X. This mass cyber-attack has been termed as CardBleed by Sensec researchers to differentiate it from other such campaigns. The previous attack was recorded on the 962 Magento stores in July 2020. And since then, web security experts found no new vulnerability for Magento 1.X, which was uncharacteristic as this version had many security loopholes. So, it led experts to believe that attackers were sitting duck intentionally waiting for EOL of Magento 1.X. And this belief of experts was right because hackers made sure that those old stores are not patched by Adobe and then only injected malicious codes to steal data from almost 3000 (3% of Magento 1 install). There are still 95000+ Magen...

  Before we learn what GraphQL is, we need to know what an API is and how it works? Application Programming Interface or simply an API is a software programming consisting of a set of definitions and protocols that allow two computer programs to interact with each other in an orderly fashion to present data as requested by users. The interaction of the mobile app with the server is completed through the use of API. Now GraphQL is a query language for APIs & runtime. It helps to fulfill the requested queries with existing data. To simply put it, it helps to speed things up by boosting the interaction between APIs. It helps to enhance the flexibility and effectiveness of the call or query requested. GraphQL is a high-performing alternative for REST & SOAP APIs. It helps to build custom headless storefronts, PWA apps, and mobile apps in Magento. REST, SOAP, and GraphQL have similar functionalities. However, REST and SOAP have less advanced architecture than its counterpa...

  PHP 8.0 is the long-awaited version of PHP – a website scripting language. The latest version is scheduled for general availability on Nov 26, 2020. PHP 8.0 has some groundbreaking features and enhancements like the new JIT compiler. Just in Time or JIT compiler is the most hyped feature upgrade of the latest PHP version and is speculated to improve the performance of the websites running on PHP like Magento 2. And to find that out, we put it on a test and also compared the performance with the website running on PHP 7.3. We properly optimized both the website and tested them under similar circumstances. The result of this test was quite surprising as to the expectations. We started out by installing PHP 8 first. It was an easy and straightforward process. Then, we installed Magento 2 on PHP 8. During the installation of Magento 2, we were faced with few problems and applied solutions to the best of our knowledge to overcome those issues. Once the installation was complete,...

  An unprecedented event like the corona pandemic has put the lives of many people and businesses at risk. The uncertainty of the event has terrified many fear-stricken people. Businesses are waking up in a world where the COVID-19 has been able to overtake the economy. Many businesses have lost their balance for operating at a rate they would in normal conditions. That’s when the emergency plan comes into the picture. Big corporates have a specialized team for analyzing risk and how to manage the business during emergencies like COVID-19. But small business does not have such teams or an emergency plan either. So, what they can do is to prepare a business for the worst case scenario, explore insurance options, spread ways to minimize the effects of the pandemic, take care of your worried customers and employees as well. There are strategies aggressive actions that you can implement right away. Also, be transparent and optimistic in your communication over the different channel...

  When Magento launched its highly anticipated platform Magento 2, the eCommerce industry welcomed it with open arms. And since then it became the big news for many. Many Magento 1 users and merchants were confused about their store’s future. So, along with the launch of Magento 2, Magento also announced that it will end the life support for Magento 1. And to do that the previously set deadline was extended until June 2020. Many Magento 1 store owners migrated to Magento 2 foreseeing its future in the eCommerce world. Still, there are many Magento 1 store owners stuck with it with lots of questions and confusion in their minds. Those questions and confusion hold them back from moving to the futuristic platform like Magento 2. Therefore, we have come up with a guide that answers the most frequently asked questions (FAQs). Questions like how long does it take to migrate, when is the right time to migrate, the total cost for migration to Magento 2 and other frequently asked questi...