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With everyone taking their businesses online it is becoming challenging for entrepreneurs to find out which platform will benefit their business the most. Magento is a wide platform that is home to over forty thousand e-commerce websites globally. The recent studies have discovered that Magento withholds four percent of the e-commerce sites across the internet and has a great success rate. With the latest incarnation of this e-commerce platform, Magento 2, over two hundred thousand retailers are trusting their businesses to boom with the means of Magento 2. This version of Magento has incredible features with numerous plugins to enhance the functionality of your site. With Magento 2 you have greater control of your web design and content but that is not enough to have customers flooding into your site. Here are the top 5 Magento 2 extensions which can offer you a better game plan and a stronger site for customer conversion.

TaxJar

With this TaxJar extension, you don’t need to worry about reporting your calculated sales tax to your Magento 2 store. TaxJar is quick as well as easy to install and configures your tax setting around the structure of Magento. What makes it more user-friendly is that you don’t need to set the tax rates they are automatically updated and represented in a comprehensive interface. The best part about this extension is that it is lightweight so it won’t affect the working of your site in any way. This extension is updated every month with the latest tax rates so being an online store owner you don’t have to worry about using the wrong rates and ruining the image of the business.

Bingo ElasticSearch

Bingo ElasticSearch extension helps you look for anything you are searching for through the Magento 2 powered website. As the name suggests, it gives instant results in response to your searches. This extension has a search field that is broad enough to understand the singular and plural words and provides exception admin capabilities. Its explicit search field is what separates Bingo ElasticSearch from the other extensions.

Custom Options

Custom Options is an extension that contributes towards increasing the sales from your e-commerce website. This extension personalizes color swatch as well as option images, offers you custom templates, inventory functionality, and stock management. Custom Options extension guides you through the best way of managing your custom selections.

Social Login

Social Login is an extension that is free for your customers. It simplifies the login process of customers into your site. With this Magento 2 extensions, customers can easily log into your site by linking their other social network accounts. This extension is perfect for layered navigation, allows the customer to change their information and enhances the customer experience.

Reward Points

Reward Points is another extension of Magento 2 which allows customers to gain unlimited points through their actions on your website. Customers can easily gain points through this extension and apply them to any of their purchases from your website.

Magento, one of the most stable e-commerce systems has released its most awaited version – Magento 2. The fascination for Magento 2 has already begun and developers have started digging into the Magento 2 folders to learn various things. Most commonly, novice developers use WAMP server for learning as well as development. This post is about setting up the server configurations and installing Magento 2 in WAMP server.

Download and extract the Magento 2.0.7 Community edition and extract into the wamp/www/your_magento_site/ directory. After extracting the files, load the following URL in your browser:http://127.0.0.1/your_magento_site/ The Magento 2 Installation wizard pops up. Click on Agree and Setup Magento In the Readiness check page, click on the Start Readiness Check button. Magento will check if your server configurations meet the requirements needed for Magento 2. If you receive the following error in thePHP Settings, Check: Your current setting of xdebug.max_nesting_level=100. Magento 2 requires it to be set to 200 or more. Edit your config, restart web server, and try again.Open wamp console, and click on the php.ini to open the file:

The php.ini file will be located in the following path: <Your Drive>:\wamp\bin\php\php5.5.12\php.ini The above mentioned php5.5.12 varies depending upon the WAMP version that you have installed. In the php.ini file, search for the line “xdebug.max_nesting_level = 100” and change the value from 100 to 200. If this line does not exist, add this line to the end of the file: xdebug.max_nesting_level = 200 Magento 2 requires the following extensions to be enabled:

curl

dom

iconv

mcrypt

spl

xsl

intl

mbstring

ctype

hash

openssl

zip

simplexml

xmlwriter

gd

Most of these extensions are enabled by default. If any of the above extension is not enabled, you can enable them by using the WAMP console. Please refer the below screenshot:

If the extensions are not listed in the WAMP console’s PHP extensions, you can directly edit the php.ini file and uncomment the corresponding extension. Remove the semi-colon (;) to uncomment and enable them:

Once you have enabled the corresponding extensions, restart all the services in WAMP console. Click on theTry Again button and Magento will check for the requirements again. Once all the server requirements are met, click on the Next button to proceed.

In the “Add a Database” page, enter the database details. When you work on your local machine, the host is most probably “localhost”. Enter the other details like username, password, and the database name. The table prefix is an optional entry, which you can provide if you wish to have a prefix text added before all the table names. Prior to clicking the next button, make sure that the database name you have mentioned in this page is already created. If not, log on to your mysql console or phpmyadmin and create the database. In the below screenshot we have used the database name “magento2_new”:

The next step allows you to define the base URL for both frontend and admin panel of the your magento 2 instance:

In the following step “Customize Your Store”, you can specify the Default Timezone, Currency and Default Language of your magento site:

Specify the username, email, password for the account that you will be using to access the Magento 2 Admin panel:

In the next step, click on the “Install Now” button. It might take some time for the setup to be completed. Once the setup is completed, the below success page will get displayed:

Magento 2 creates a new admin path URL with random numbers and alphabets. So it’s better to bookmark the admin path to get to the admin login page without needing to remember it. And VOILA!, here is your all new Magento 2 Website:

If you end up in a messy homepage with no CSS and styles, and your admin page displays “404 Not Found Error”, you need to enable the mod_rewrite module in the Apache and restart all the services in the WAMP console. You can enable it using the WAMP console as displayed below

You can also enable the rewite module by editing the httpd.conf file. The httpd.conf file will be found in the following location: <Your Drive>:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\conf\httpd.conf Open the conf file and search for the line:LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.soUncomment this line by removing the # at the beginning of the line. Do not forget to restart all the services in the WAMP console before looking at the changes in the browser. In the following posts we will explain how to install Magento 2 using composer.

Hello, folks! It’s been quite a busy time for us techies at Velan. Recently we helped a client add some customizations and extend the core functionalities of Magento 2. I thought I’d share a tip or two on how to Override Core JS files of Magento 2.

It’s pretty simple actually, but through the course of my career, I’ve seen that “Simple” is most often the actual complication. Skimming through a slew of questions by a lot of developers who are trying to achieve this, here are my 2 cents on how we successfully accomplished this.

Note: Even a newbie to Magento knows very well that editing the core files is one of the biggest blunders considering Magento’s Development Principles.

I’m going to try and explain the simplest way to extend the functionalities by overriding the core JS component.

To override the core JS components, we first need to create a file called “requires-config.js”.

In case you are developing a Magento 2 extension, you will have to create this file in the following path:

app/code/Namespace/ModuleName/view/frontend/require-config.js

If you are developing a theme, then you will have to create this file in the root directory of your theme:

app/design/frontend/PackageName/ThemeName/require-config.js

Now that you have the file created, we should specify the override in the following format:

varconfig = {

“map” : {

“*” : {

“<core_component>” : “<our_component>”

}

}

};

Below is an example of how you would override the Menu component’s JS file with your custom-menu.js file:

varconfig = {

“map” : {

“*” : {

“menu” : “js/custom-menu”

}

}

};

And that wraps up the simplest way to Override Core JS files of Magento 2. Hope this helps! Try it out and let us know in the comments whether this worked for you. If it didn’t work, fret not – comment if you need further guidance! We’d love to help you out if you promise to buy us coffee!