Quality Patches Tool Overview and How to Efficiently Use It

Most of our readers know that Magento has security, cloud, quality, and custom patches that can be installed to fix particular website issues on Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source platforms. 

In this post, we’ll speak about the tool released by Adobe to apply quality patches and work with them – Quality Patches Tool (QPT). In addition, we’ll describe how to use QPT on different Magento platforms and the existing best practices.

Ultimate Magento SEO Checklist 2022

Have you ever heard someone say, “I want a lightning-fast website because I need good indexing among search engines”

Correct, we’ve heard this story many times as well. Site performanсe is a critical component of search engine friendliness. 

However, many other factors affect Magento SEO, as well. In a previous post, we made the case for customer experience as the most crucial driver of optimal website indexing. 

The more customers that use your website, the better ranking you will achieve. So, performance is far from your only consideration when discussing search engine optimization.

There are many technical aspects you’ll need to pay attention to in order to optimize Magento SEO. This article offers a Magento SEO checklist of tasks that, when performed, will make your website more favorable to search engine robots.

Magento Cloud - Pro vs Starter

Magento Commerce Cloud is the ideal combination of a hosting platform together with the right Magento Commerce features for building a website. We already highlighted reasons to choose Magento Commerce Cloud solution – a perfect choice for merchants who wish to simplify eCommerce website maintenance and, at the same time, acquire a stable platform for developing and growing business.

Magento offers two variations depending on business needs – Magento Commerce Cloud: Starter and Pro-Plan. Let’s compare these in more detail so you can find the right choice for your company.

Think you are hiding your Magento 2 store back-end URL?

As you may know, Magento recommends using a unique, custom Admin URL instead of the default “admin” or a common term such as “back-end”. Although it will not directly protect your site from a determined bad actor intending to steal your data, but it can reduce exposure to scripts that try to gain unauthorized access. Even though there is a custom URL set up for Admin, this does not necessarily mean that it will remain unexposed to someone, especially to attackers.

Is it worth covering Magento 2 code by automated tests?

The implementation of automated tests has always been an interesting topic for many store owners and managers. We receive many questions every day like: should we invest money for tests in addition to development? How will it help an online business? Which tests are better and why? Therefore, we aim to shed some light on the most popular and useful types of tests and highlight the key reasons for their importance.