This category is dedicated to practical Magento tutorials for both Magento 1 and Magento 2, written from the perspective of a developer who has lived inside real stores. You will find guides that walk through everything from local setup and environment configuration to theme tweaks, layout changes, and module development. Articles cover core concepts like the Magento directory structure, XML layout updates, dependency injection, events and observers, and working safely with overrides so you do not break the upgrade path.
Because many stores are still moving from Magento 1 to Magento 2, I also focus on migration and maintenance topics. That includes planning and testing upgrades, cleaning up old extensions, optimizing database tables, and handling performance bottlenecks on busy catalogs. You will see examples of indexing strategies, cache tuning, cron jobs, and troubleshooting slow queries so you can keep page loads snappy even under load.
Security, stability, and day to day operations are a big part of these Magento tutorials as well. Expect walkthroughs for setting up backups, managing environments, wiring in payment gateways and shipping methods, and connecting Magento to external services like CRMs, ERPs, and analytics. Whether you are maintaining a legacy Magento 1 shop or building a fresh Magento 2 store, this category aims to give you copyable patterns and code you can trust in production.
When creating forms for Magento, it is helpful to know the different types of built-in fields that can be used while creating a form. The below examples can be used to create an admin form by extending the Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Widget_Form block. Hidden Field Text Time Textarea Submit Select Example 1 Example 2 Radio Example 1 Example…
Grabbing the store code from Magento can be quite easy. The following code has always done the trick for me.
As a developer, sometimes it is essential to check if store code URLs are enabled. Store codes are well known for breaking extensions due to the URL format. If you need to check if store code URLs are enabled you could simply use the following.
Optimizing Magento Magento is a very popular eCommerce application. It offers a great deal of customization and abilities from the initial installation. Here are a few suggestions for optimizing a Magento installation. Changing The .htaccess File Enabling Output Compression In your .htaccess file for Magento, you will find a section of text starting with the…
Truncating Test Orders SQL Script Tested on Magento 1.8. Simply run the following SQL code. Note: Always make a backup of your database first. “What worked today may not work tomorrow”