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The best must have Magento extensions 2016

- E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

Best Magento Modules

The best must have Magento extensions of 2015 can change a lot in your e-commerce store. In this post we put all the extensions into 6 major groups: “Performance”, “SEO”, “Frontend, UI, usability”, “Loyalty, referral campaigns”, “System, backend”, and “Marketing, sales”. All of them are tested and accepted by Magento developers, so you will only deal with the most reliable tools. Two other important things about “The best must have Magento extensions of 2014” are novelty and relevance of further described products.

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The Best Magento Full Page Cache Extensions

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full-page-cache-magentoThe speed of your Magento store is one of the key aspects of your success in an online business. This feature of every e-commerce store is taken into account by every search engine and has a significant influence on rankings. As a result, fast sites have the advantage over slower ones. That’s why the performance of your Magento store is really crucial.

To improve your website speed and a page load time you can use one of Full Page Cache Magento Extensions. All the modules from this group rely on the same principle. When a visitor is on a page of your store for the first time, Magento automatically generates and delivers this page to the visitor. The copy of this page is saved to the cache. Eventually, all the pages of your store have cached copies, and the system use them instead of generating new pages from scratch. As a result you get a reduced database and server load and significantly decreased page load time. Next, you will find the list of the best Magento full page cache extensions. There are both free and paid solutions in our post. All the Magento FPC modules have the same goal, but slightly different features.

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Magento Performance Ultimate Guide

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This Magento performance guide is written for all versions of the ecommerce platform (including Magento 2). It is suitable for both Community and Enterprise editions. Additionally, it is useful for php & mysql web applications. Below, you will find all vital Magento performance improvements and optimizations for server and application sides of your ecommerce website, as well as the most popular enterprise class Magento performance solutions.

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How To Set Up & Configure Server For Magento 2 & 1

- Magento 2, Magento tips & tricks

Magento server configuration

The following guide teaches how to set up and configure server for both Magento 2 and 1.X. Below, you will find a list of providers that offer cheap but quite powerful and reliable dedicated server solutions, discover how to install all-in-one web stack required by your Magento website (including Nginx, Apache, MariaDB, PHP 5.6, OPCache, and Redis), get a deep insight on the usage of Composer, Git, IonCube, XDebug & PHPUnit, Solr, Varnish, as well as Grunt and RabbitMQ on a server. Magento server configuration is a piece of cake! Continue Reading

Magento Christmas Store: Preparing For Winter Holidays

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Magento Christmas Store: Preparing For Winter Holidays

Below, we will show you how to prepare your Magento website for Christmas and other winter holidays. Do you know that it is possible to use the Christmas time to improve your conversion rate and make your customers more loyal? The following post discusses visual changes as well as various performance and marketing improvements vital during the holiday season. And you can easily implement almost everything via appropriate Magento extension. Continue Reading

Beware of Nginx and Magmi Data Import Tool

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Security vulnerabilities: Nginx and Magmi Data Import Tool

Two potential security vulnerabilities have been discovered recently in the Magento ecosystem.

The first one is Nginx, but don’t panic, as this problem affects only some misconfigured Magento sites. Because of the misconfiguration, hackers get access to the Magento cache system. Please note, that cache files can contain such sensitive information as Magento database passwords: with this data, malefactors can access your Magento installation and as a result customer information. Continue Reading

The Best Store Credit Magento Extensions

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Store Credit Extensions for Magento

There is no permanent need of interacting with bank accounts of customers or necessitating them to visit the store directly — sometimes it’s preferably to return their order values to their credit accounts. Thus, the chance of them returning to the store and buying new stuff is increased. This article provides the general overview of four of the latest Magento extensions focused on credit systems.

The Best Store Credit Magento 2 Extensions

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“Magento DIY. The Complete Guide” is Out Now!

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DIY Guide to Magento

During the last few months the Firebear team has been working on a DIY guide to Magento. The book is out now and you can purchase it for $30. “Magento DIY. The Complete Guide” explains all important nuances related to the most popular ecommerce platform and illustrates vital improvements necessary for turning your website into a robust online store. The book consists of 5 chapters: Setup; Sales Generation; Growth; Enterprise; and Custom Magento Development.  Continue Reading

The Power of Real Magento Community

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Real Magento Community

The community around the Magento platform is vast. It consists of both professionals and enthusiasts, developers and merchants, geeks and sirs. In the beginning, all this mass was scattered and disconnected, but everything has been changed within last years. Magento community is not only huge, but it is also powerful, influential and not indifferent to its members. Today, it’s one of the real benefits of the platform. Don’t stay aside and try to get the maximum from the Real Magento Community. We will explain how to do this in the following post. Also, check the neu initiative – the Magento Association. It is going to organize and optimize processes that take place in the community.

UPD (11.02.16): How do I get involved in the Magento community?

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Google Merchant Center Magento Integration

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Magento Integration with Google Merchant Center

In this post, we are going to look at Google Merchant Center (Google Base) and its integration with Magento. Google Merchant Center is a service designed to help you with your store and product information integration into Google Shopping and other platforms. In order to work with Google Merchant Center you must use your Google account or create a new one. Every Google account can be associated only with one Google Merchant Center account, but you can add extra users to your Google Base.

Google Merchant Center Magento 2 Integration

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