Posts tagged 'technical'

Creating Magento simple and configurable products programmatically

How to Create Simple and Configurable Products in Magento 2 Programmatically: Technical Guide

Products are the cornerstone of any catalog or e-commerce store, and Magento offers robust features for creating them from the backend. Whether you’re looking to create simple products, grouped products with configurable products, or configure products programmatically, Magento 2 makes it possible to tailor your store's inventory. This guide will walk you through the process of creating Magento 2 configurable products manually or programmatically, as well as some common issues you may encounter.

March 31, 2016
How to Install Apache Solr for Magento Store?

How to Install Apache Solr for Magento Store?

Do you know how many customers your Magento store is losing just because your visitors can’t find the products they need since the search system is imperfect? Huge stores with an extensive amount of products suffer from it dramatically. Learn how to help your customers to find what they need and boost your sales by installing Apache Solr. When a customer doesn’t know the exact product name, s...
March 21, 2016
Little-known discount issue in Magento and how to fix it

Little-known discount issue in Magento and how to fix it

Hello, my name is Pavel, and the most of my work with Magento is connected with discounts. Sounds like a confession! I can say I know a lot about them, but our sophisticated customers never let me rest and ask more and more questions about this topic. A couple of days ago I’ve encountered a problem with discounts in Magento, and today I wanted to explain this issue to you, also giving tips on ...
October 26, 2015
Little-known Amasty extensions features: GeoIP Data

Little-known Amasty extensions features: GeoIP Data import

GeoIP Data is a service module that checks approximate user location by IP address. If you run Magento 2, try out this GeoIP extension developed specially for working with the version. This tool may be of use when you don’t want your customers to enter the full address. GeoIP defines country, in most of the cases state and even city. GeoIP Data is included into several Amasty Magento extensio...
October 6, 2015
Magento 2 installation guide

Magento 2 Installation Guide: Composer, GitHub, and ZIP Methods

Amasty's team first decided to install Magento 2 as soon as its 0.42.0-beta1 version emerged in 2014. Since then, we’ve performed hundreds of thousands of Magento 2 installations for our clients. To make starting Magento for beginners easy, we decided to provide an in-depth Magento 2 installation guide. We address common methods, best practices, and possible errors.  

December 18, 2014
Amasty research: Full Page Cache vs Varnish Cache

Amasty Research | Full Page Cache vs. Varnish Cache

The Amasty Team has recently released a new extension — Full Page Cache — designed to speed up Magento store pages, which are often known for their heavy load. Full Page Cache is already proving to be a great success. But actions speak louder than words, and statistics speak even louder. Check out Amasty's latest research: How fast can Magento be with Full Page Cache? 

June 5, 2014
Amasty Research: What server optimizations for Magento really work?

Amasty Research: What server optimizations for Magento really work?

Magento stores owners often look for the ways to speed Magento up in order to increase the level of customer service. Internet is full of recommendations on a fine-tuning of the server software, which suppose to help in attaining maximum performance boost. Which of them really work? Amasty Team has conducted research and is ready to share with you the results of it inside. In this article we ...
April 1, 2014
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