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Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration

Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration

by | Nov 9, 2020 | Magento2

Let’s find out why more and more merchants choose to upgrade their website from Magento 1 to Magento 2!

1. The end of Magento 1 Support

It is risky to run such a heavy and complex eCommerce platform like Magento without the support from Magento. We all know that the deadline for Magento 2 migration is June 2020. Merchants should get started as soon as possible before the support for Magento 1 is ended. No security patches. No new updates. What exactly will happen to Magento 1 stores after June 2020?
  • Your payments could not be PCI Compliant. It would be the biggest problem as an eCommerce business cannot run without successfully processed payments.
  • Your website is more vulnerable. Cybercrimes are increasing in recent years and Magento 1 sites will be ideal prey for hackers. Your potential damages are uncountable. How can your customers keep making purchases on an unsafe website?
  • Expenses on handling security are expensive. As a result of the mentioned-above insecure situation, merchants need to pay a huge amount of money to maintain security. However, it is not a smart tactic for merchants who want to optimize resources and rocket sales.
  • There are no new features and extensions for Magento 1. It’s hard to stand out in the eCommerce market with thousands of similar brands and products. And this task will become harder when your site does not access new updates anymore.
You must know that there are up to 180,000 Magento 1 sites currently operating but there are only about 350 Magento Official Trained Partners that provide high-quality migration service. Therefore, if you are wondering what is the right time to make a jump from Magento 1 to Magento 2, the answer is RIGHT NOW.

2. Improve your site performance

Do you know that 1 second delay in page load time leads to 11% fewer page views, 16% decrease in customer satisfaction, and 7% loss in conversions? Actually, customers can only wait for your site loading within 3 seconds or they will leave quickly. Therefore, it is important for any eCommerce business to optimize website performance. The faster the speed of delivery is, the more satisfied your customers feel. The good news is that Magento 2 sites will run faster (about 20%) than Magento 1 sites. Magento 2 with PHP7 can process 135,000 more orders per hour. Why don’t you migrate your store from Magento 1 to Magento 2 to gain benefits from this improvement?

3. Stronger security

Magento Security Center continues to release security patches and updates. Magento 2 introduced many new native security features that protect your stores effectively from attacks.
  • Strong data encryption: Using strengthened hashing algorithms (SHA-256) helps protect passwords and other vulnerable info better.
  • Session Validation: This feature helps protects your site from possible session attacks as well as any attempts to poison/hijack user sessions.
  • Cookie Validation: Because there is an increasing number of cookie poisoning and thefts, Magento 2 is updated with a new secure cookie type. You can enable httponly flag for cookie in the Magento 2 backend to strengthen cookie protection, even in the transmission from the application to the browser.
  • CSRF Protection: CSRF stands for Cross Site Request Forgery. To fight against attacks that can steal user data without password confirmation, it is highly recommended to use Add Secret Keys to URLs configuration right in the backend.  This security feature creates an additional token, which is a 16-character alphanumeric string. The token is automatically generated and checked carefully by Magento.
  • XSS Protection: XSS vulnerability is common among any web application with 3 main types: Persisted XSS, Non-persistent XSS, and DOM XSS. In Magento 2, merchants can easily avoid these vulnerabilities by verifying all user input and output.
These security updates are just part of the benefits that merchants can receive when moving from Magento 1 to Magento 2. Magento 2 constantly fixed bugs, releases new security patches, and update new industry practices such as SCA. In the future, more and more improvements will be implemented. Would you like to miss all of them?

4. Simple and easy-to-use navigation

Magento requires users to have a certain technical knowledge base of techniques to manage online stores effectively. The admin interface of Magento 1 is considered complicated which makes it hard for beginners to get accustomed to workflow and features of the platform.
Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration: Simple navigation
Fortunately, Magento 2 replaced the old admin interface with a much more simple and intuitive one. Now users can navigate to all the parts in the admin panel more easily. Magento 2 Dashboard provides merchants with an overview of how their businesses perform with detailed statistics of Lifetime Sales, Average Order, Last Orders, Last and Top Search Terms. Admins can also know which products are Bestsellers, Most Viewed Products and check Customers. Other information includes Revenue, Tax, Shipping, and Quantity.

5. More extensions for Magento 2

By migrating from Magento 1 to Magento 2, merchants can save a lot of financial resources cause installing extensions for Magento 2 powered websites becomes simpler and cheaper. The average price for an extension is about $50. There are numerous extensions even for free. As we all can see, the Magento 1 extension market is shrinking quickly (At Magento store). Technology solution providers now focus on developing new modules for Magento 2 only. If you continue to stay on Magento 1, you will have limited options to enhance the functionality of your eCommerce system. Additionally, with API, Magento 2 allows merchants to integrate their site with many different third-party services smoothly such as ERP, CRM, payment gateways, etc.

6. Faster checkout

Checkout is one of the most important steps in the buying journey of customers. Many buyers after choosing to buy your products just give up because the checkout process is too complex and time-consuming. That’s exactly the problem of all Magento 1 stores. The checkout here consists of 6 steps:
  1. Enter or confirm billing address
  2. Enter or choose shipping address
  3. Choose shipping method
  4. Choose payment method
  5. Review and submit order
  6. Receive confirmation.
Who’s gonna patiently go through such a long process? To optimize the checkout, let’s upgrade your store from Magento 1 to Magento 2! Magento 2 helps store owners simplify everything with ajax add-to-cart and streamlined checkout.
  • Ajax add-to-cart: It’s time to say goodbye to annoying page reloading every time your customer adds a product to the shopping cart. Thanks to ajax add-to-cart, the buying journey is not interrupted, which increases customer satisfaction and indirectly boosts your sales.
  • Streamlined checkout: On Magento 2 stores, customers now are much happier with simplified procedure divided into 2 clear steps. In the first step, customer information is collected and the system requires billing information in the second step. Even for guests without registration, checkout is also available. Magento 2 will identify them as registered customers based on the email address they provide. As mentioned above, Magento 2 supports integrations with popular payment gateways that weren’t available in Magento 1. In this way, merchants can reach more customers from all over the world with their local payment methods.
Overall, Magento 2 checkout is 38% faster than Magento 1. This change will definitely leverage your business performance.

7. Improved mobile shopping

By 2021, more than half of online sales are predicted to come from mobile Commerce. That means store owners should invest more in the shopping experience of customers on mobile devices if they want to be the leading players in the eCommerce market. Despite the fast-growing mobile traffic, the conversion rates on mobile devices are still low. To deal with this, Magento 2 offers mobile-friendly checkout and responsive themes, and Progress Web Applications (PWAs) that is expected to create a brand new future for mobile shopping. The most remarkable feature I would like to more is PWA Studio. It separates the frontend and backend of the store with API connector. Developing frontend for Magento 2 becomes easier and more powerful. Using streamlined design enables developers to make and feel the frontend changes in real-time.

8. Better SEO features

To increase the visibility of your website toward potential customers, Magento 2 introduces many new SEO improvements. Here are some significant features:
  • Product page optimization: “Product fields Auto-Generation Template” is added. The setting helps to keep track of Meta tags along with predesigned templates and product attributes.
  • Generation of XML sitemap: XML sitemap allows merchants to customize priority and frequency for each page individually. Just by a few clicks in the backend settings, the sitemap will be sent to search engines such as Google directly and automatically.
  • Rich Snippets & Schema.org integration: No need for code customization or new extension, now merchants can have rich snippets with Schema.org integrated into default Magento, which support price, review, rating, etc. By providing more useful information about your products, you can get more traffics go into your site.
  • Robots.txt Edit: A robots.txt file is added instead of being created manually. Admins can even edit this file in the backend.
  • Google Analytics & Google Adwords: With Google Analytics, merchants can collect customer data easily to track shopping behaviours. And Google Adwords assists them in finding out proper keywords to enhance website conversion.
  • Google Tag Manager: Magento 2 introduces Google Tag Manager that helps store owners generate and customize their tags with convenience.
Wrapping up Magento 1 store owners may feel no rush to move to Magento 2 when their websites are running well. But remember that if you choose not to change, you choose to be left behind in the wave of improving the customer experience. The eCommerce world continues to witness thousands of website migration from Magento 1 to Magento 2 each year. It can be easily explained with numerous benefits as listed above. The process of migrating from Magento 1 to Magento 2 will cost you a lot but it’s totally worthy. Don’t know where to start? Just let the problem solved by our team of Certified Developers and Specialists.]]>

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Build Your Online Store For A Successful Magento Commerce 2.4.1

by | Nov 8, 2020 | Magento2

. With new security features and enhanced tools for merchants to continuously update their sites with new imagery, content, and promotions, Magento Commerce 2.4.1 can help merchants maximize their opportunities for a reliable and successful 2020 holiday season. We recommend all Magento merchants make an effort to adopt one of these packages as soon as possible.

STAY SECURE

In addition to the 15-plus security and bug fixes included in this latest release (in areas such as SQL injection and information disclosure, among others), Magento 2.4.1 and 2.3.6 now include CAPTCHA to order placement and WEB APIs endpoints related to payment information. With this CAPTCHA implementation, Adobe seeks to minimize carding – an attack vector that translates into considerable losses for merchants and shoppers who fall victim to this type of fraud. Likewise, 2.4.1 provides SameSite cookie attribute support, an important update to support Google’s recent changes in the way its browser handles third-party cookies. Finally, and to better secure our merchants’ stores, we recently released our enhanced Magento scan tool, a free tool that proactively and efficiently detects malware on a customer’s online store and notifies them of any security risks, malware, or threats they need to address. CAPTCHA being added to order placement for improved security

STAY ON TOP OF YOUR SITE’S HEALTH WITH OUR SITE-WIDE ANALYSIS TOOL DASHBOARD INTEGRATION

For our Magento Commerce customers hosted in the cloud, we are extremely excited to announce the integration of our Site-Wide Analysis Tool and its features and capabilities. Starting with Magento Commerce 2.4.1, customers can now gain real-time access to this tool’s dashboard via the Magento Admin Panel. The ability to monitor your site’s health, performance, functionality and even get recommendations on how to fix known issues are just some of the robust capabilities this tool offers. Managing your online store and ensuring its optimal performance has never been easier! Site-Wide Analysis Tool dashboard

AN ENHANCED AND MORE SECURE B2B EXPERIENCE FOR BUYERS AND SELLERS

Magento Commerce 2.4.1 brings new enhancements to our B2B capabilities in areas such as shipping options, cart management, payments, and security. B2B buyers can now benefit from personalized shipping methods, faster requisition list creation, and approval workflow usability enhancements. Additionally, they are able to add an entire cart or individual items to a requisition list, facilitating the faster creation of order templates. Likewise, they can also clear an entire shopping cart in a single action. Requisition list creation and cart clearing B2B sellers, on the other hand, will benefit from being able to use the payment on account payment method when creating orders in the Admin. Other admin enhancements let them filter customer information by sales rep and view a customer’s quote history from the Customer Detail Page for a complete picture of their purchasing activities. Finally, the addition of Google reCAPTCHA on the New Company Request form is aimed to considerably reduce the creation of fraudulent accounts.

FASTER CONTENT CREATION AND IMPROVED STOREFRONT EXPERIENCE

Recent projections estimate that this holiday season will begin much earlier – perhaps as early as this week with Amazon’s Prime Day sale – and spread throughout the fall months, thus lengthening the time shoppers will be searching for good deals. This, in turn, will create the need for merchants to continuously update their sites with new content, engaging promotions, and attractive discounts. Magento Commerce is well-positioned to offer the tools and features that merchants need to continuously adapt to rapid changing market conditions. In 2.4.1, we are introducing:

NEW MEDIA GALLERY

Just last quarter, we introduced a completely redesigned and vastly improved Media Gallery. We continue our commitment to delivering the best tools for image and asset management, saving significant time and resources for creative stakeholders. In Magento 2.4.1, the Media Gallery is now enabled by default and adds new functionalities that will help content creators manage, edit, and find images, easier than ever. Enhancements also include support for bulk image operations, new filtering options, duplicate detection, custom metadata, and more. Filter images by location (upper) and bulk operations (lower)

STREAMLINING THE CONTENT SUPPLY CHAIN

The process of managing product media from sourcing and optimization through publishing can be highly complex and span multiple groups. Along with the content management improvements native to Magento Commerce, Adobe partner Bounteous is helping merchants optimize and streamline product media asset management with the Bounteous Connector for Magento Commerce and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets. Developed by Bounteous in collaboration with Adobe, this integration enables merchants to achieve better product content velocity and asset quality through the full, end-to-end creative workflow from Adobe Creative Cloud to Experience Manager Assets to Magento Commerce. 

HEADLESS IMPROVEMENTS

As more of our customers launch headless storefronts built on Magento, we continue to reduce the time to market by further building out PWA Studio components and expanding GraphQL coverage. In Magento 2.4.1, we are now introducing support for key capabilities like product reviews, gift options, and rewards.

PLATFORM QUALITY, AND PERFORMANCE

The release of Magento 2.4.1 includes several enhancements to platform quality and performance that support holiday readiness. Highlights include: • The dotdigital Vendor Bundled Extension is now integrated with Page Builder, allowing marketers to easily embed dotdigital’s Engagement Cloud pages and forms to any storefront page. • Multiple performance improvements, including up to 20% reduction in consumer queue CPU consumption and 15% reduction in the size of network transfers between Magento and Redis. • WebMethods.io Connector (by Software AG), an integration that enables out of the box connectivity between Magento Commerce and other enterprise applications like ERPs. This connector launched in early September and is compatible with Magento Commerce 2.4.x and 2.3.x release lines. • 150-plus functional quality improvements.

LOOKING AHEAD TO 2021 AND BEYOND

2021 Patch Schedule Updates

In addition to our latest features and enhancements, Adobe is updating our software lifecycle policy regarding supported minor versions. Starting in 2021, supported versions that are no longer the most current minor release line of Magento (currently only 2.3) will move to security-only updates. All quality updates for 2.3.x will instead be distributed through the new Magento Quality Patches (MQP) tool. The most current release line (2.4 as of June 28, 2020) will continue to receive quality and security updates through the same existing quarterly release cycle until the release of Magento 2.5, at which time it will move into a security-only cycle, as well.

Planning for PHP 7.3 End of Support

In December 2021, PHP 7.3 will reach its end of support. To ensure compatibility and compliance for the Magento 2.3 release line, we will add support for PHP 7.4 to the release of Magento 2.3.7 in May 2021. This update will bring backward incompatible changes into 2.3.7 that may affect your site and extensions. To avoid unwanted interruptions, we encourage all merchants to adopt our latest minor release 2.4.x, which supports PHP 7.4 today, or update to 2.3.7 once it’s available.]]>

Server-Side vs Client-Side Rendering And Changing SEO Practices

by | Nov 8, 2020 | Magento2, MagentoB2B

WHAT IS SSR? AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? Since their invention, search engines have analyzed websites by reading the HTML generated by their servers. The term Server-Side Rendering (SSR) is fairly new, though. Until the last few years, we just called it “rendering,” since it was the only way Web pages were served. The Web has matured into a rich application platform. Everyone now expects Web pages to be as interactive and dynamic as any other graphical interface, and we achieved that by inventing ways to write HTML on the fly with JavaScript. Much of the modern Web is built with these more flexible client-side rendering (CSR) techniques. They have proved to be the best way to author reliable and scalable dynamic websites. Search engine crawler bots aren’t full-fledged Web browsers, though. They have to move rapidly through a vast web of content. For years, these bots didn’t run JavaScript and didn’t support CSR; if your site used CSR to display its content and functionality, the Googlebot just wouldn’t see it. Because this was the case for so long, SSR is well recognized as the content rendering method best suited for ensuring HTML content is readily available for modern search engine crawlers/bots. At this point, we’ll assume that knowledge of SSR is well understood from a strategy and execution perspective. It’s a basic feature of the Web platform CSR is beneficial to the end-user experience, but it raises a number of questions around ensuring consistent ranking and placement requirements within search engine results. Most major sites, and especially most eCommerce sites, have addressed this by rendering the “indexable” content of a Web page on the server and then switching to CSR to manage the page once it’s loaded. SSR is the great, time-tested solution here. We also know that – when not executed properly – SSR can make a site slower. Today, speed and performance are equally, if not more, important to ensure search engine ranking/placement. If a search engine could crawl CSR-generated websites, then it would be simplest and fastest to render the whole app with CSR, since you’re going to need it for the fancy parts. Right now, the largest search engines are starting to support CSR in their crawler bots, and eventually we will see many early adopters with very high result rankings, despite doing no SSR at all. However, businesses have come to rely on SEO and search engine marketing (SEM) as a critical factor for customer acquisition and generation of revenue. Anything that is counter to the strategies that have successfully worked over the past decade has the potential to have a significant impact on a business’ continued success. Asking merchants to make the leap to Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and Web storefronts that rely heavily on CSR versus SSR is a tall ask. With PWA Studio, we’re attempting to build for what we view as the future of the Web (where reliance on SSR is no longer a hard requirement) while still accommodating for the present merchant needs and concerns. So let’s dive into the weeds a bit and review some of the arguments for and against SSR with PWA Studio, as well as some of the current options/capabilities for meeting these requirements.

IS SSR NECESSARY?

There’s really no simple answer here. There are arguments for and against SSR, especially in the context of PWAs and dynamic JS-based applications/storefronts. There is certainly no argument about the efficacy of SSR over the lifetime of the Web. It does, however, add additional overhead and cost to do it, so we need to be clear-eyed about how much SSR is still doing for us and whether it’s worth it. Given modern browsers and technologies, it’s justifiable to question the continued importance (and additional cost) of SSR – especially when it is increasingly evident that search engines are capable of indexing dynamic sites and continually improving their effectiveness. Common arguments for SSR typically boil down to: • We need to implement SSR because it has worked before and continues to work. We are not willing to risk our business objectives while developers wait around to see how the SSR/CSR story develops in the coming years. • Other big technology companies continue to invest in and have a reliance on SSR; it’s not just for SEO. • SSR is still needed to serve metadata for media objects since the SEM bots still aren’t running JavaScript. • As a partner or agency, not having a clear SEO strategy that relies on SSR is hindering our ability to build merchant confidence and improve adoption of PWAs. • There isn’t enough data/evidence that minimal (or even no) SSR actually works without having a significant impact on SEO. And arguments against SSR: • High-profile Web development leaders often discourage SSR because poor implementations can reduce performance and ranking. In PWAs especially, the UI should load as early as possible, even if it’s not fully loaded. SSR does a lot of up-front calculations which the CSR-driven client might not even use. • Risks of platform lock-in or code duplication. The premier experience of an eCommerce PWA is client-side, as a dynamic native-feeling JS app, but cross-platform SSR requires implementing that experience in two different places – the server and the client – and the logic can’t really be reused. The one solution to that is to use a server that can render HTML generated by the frontend UI code. The best server for this is NodeJS, since it can run the JavaScript UI code directly and generate HTML responses. But that does lock developers into a particular backend technology. • SSR increases TCO because of the additional tech requirements and the extra steps in development and continuous integration. It’s easier than it used to be, but it’s always extra work to write code that is going to run in two very different environments. • As search engines get better at indexing dynamic sites – and the major ones are great at it today – it becomes harder to justify the cost of SSR.

WHAT SSR SOLUTIONS EXIST FOR PWA STUDIO?

Does PWA Studio, today, support SSR? While there are a number of possible solutions and areas for enhancement, yes, PWA Studio does support and allow for SSR. If you’ve been a participant in our community #pwa Slack channel, then you know this has been a hot topic of late that we’ve spent a good amount of time covering in our weekly PWA Studio Community meetings. To summarize the current options for implementing SSR, today, with PWA Studio: • UPWARD provides a solution for simple SSR rendering of page data and metadata. This serves a simple use case that PWA advocates consider to be a best practice. For more complex requirements (rendering the full page React app), other solutions are available. • Prerender with a headless browser crawler. Jordan Eisenburger (Experius) recommends a Rendertron solution. It is noninvasive to the dev process, but first-time users may have difficulty setting it up. This tool is used on the Eleganza site and will go open source as SEOSnap. • Shane Osbourne (JH) recommends pre-endering the React app with something like ReactDOMServer because it is a well-known and supported approach. This approach is doable, capable, and fast, but it requires a NodeJS Web server in production, along with the other requirements of Magento 2. • Niklas Wolf (Mothership) recommends routing bots to a service such as Prerender.io to serve up prerendered HTML pages. This is similar to the prerender approach used by Experius, except it uses a SaaS prerenderer instead of a custom hosted one.

SO WHAT’S NEXT FOR PWA STUDIO AND SSR?

We’ve listened to and learned from our community, and we understand that our purposely minimal SSR solution doesn’t offer enough to confidently start new store deployments. SSR will be less important in the Web’s future; we remain certain. But we need to help you do more today. Our greatest hope is that PWA Studio will give you options for sane, simple SSR by opening up the server-side render rules as part of our new extensibility framework. We want an ecosystem of PWA extensions to grow, and they should include options for server-side render. Choice is good, and Magento isn’t Magento without powerful extensibility. However, we’re still committed to delivering improved tools and resources to simplify the developer experience and cost in this area. We continue to explore ways to improve the out-of-the-box SSR story for merchants and partners – whether it’s putting React SSR in the core, making Rendertron our preferred solution, enhancing UPWARD SSR abilities, or even retiring UPWARD entirely. We’re actively discussing and reviewing each option alongside our highly engaged community to make sure that, in the end, we deliver a viable and scalable solution that delivers best-in-class SEO for PWA Studio storefronts.]]>

How to Add Delete Action Column in Magento 2

by | Nov 6, 2020 | Magento2

Programmatic Solution to Add Delete Action Column in Magento 2: 1. Change code in Showdata.php file at app\code\Cozmot\Extension\Block\

2. Update showdata.phtml at app\code\Meetanshi\Extension\view\frontend\templates\ After making changes in Showdata.php and showdata.phtml files, you will manage to add ‘delete column’ in Magento 2. That’s it. I would be happy to answer your queries. Feel free to ask in the Comment section below. Share with post with newbie Magento developers. Thank you.]]>

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2020 US Election Live Updates Biden Wins White House

by | Nov 5, 2020 | General

2020 Election Live Updates:

Biden Wins White House

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