Today, Magento has released new security patch called SUPEE-6788, available as a part of Enterprise Edition 1.14.2.2 and Community Edition 1.9.2.2. The patch fixes a number of store security issues, which is why it is highly recommended you install it. But, at the same time, it has a routing issue that breaks backward compatibility, which may impact your extensions and customizations.
Magento is one of the most popular open-source eCommerce platforms on the internet with a community of over 250,000 active web stores.
In this post we’re going to focus on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), which is a core component of online business and significant player in the game of online marketing. The aim of SEO is to make your website more noticeable to search engines, so it can rank higher among search results.
The tectonic transformation of Magento we currently witness happens amid the increasing competition inside the ecommerce platforms market. Some of them rise, while the other ones fall, but what is the place of Magento in this lumpy sea?
We all want Magento to broaden its share or at least keep the status quo. So, this October we conduct our next ecommerce platforms popularity study to discover current competition circumstances.
Meet Magento Russia 2015 is the third Meet Magento conference held in Moscow indicating close attention to this emerging market demonstrated by the community and ecosystem, as a whole.
The ecommerce market in Russia is just establishing its standards and standing far from the saturation. The number of online shoppers is pretty large and mostly consists of young and middle-aged people with an average income and above. Still, the revenue generated online takes only 2% of total retail sales, which is five time lower than the ecommerce share e.g. in the total U.S. retail expenditures (Sources: Practicalecommerce.com, Statista.com). Naturally, this potential needs some efficient ecommerce solutions and no one could be better suited for this role than Magento.
Mid-autumn is usually the end of the fruitful period, while most Meet Magento conferences just grow ripe this time. Six European and one Latin-American event take place in October, which makes it the busiest month of the whole year.
Cluj-Napoca, Sao Paolo, Athens, Poznan, Zurich, Moscow and finally Madrid are seven great destinations, appointments and communities waiting us shortly.
During this transitional period Magento especially needs a lot of great features able to prove once again its power and value worthy of the most popular ecommerce platform worldwide. In this regard, we also strive to make necessary efforts and increase the number of ready to go Magento 2 extensions.
The starting point for exploring the broad advantages and capabilities of Magento 2 is to download and install the platform. Despite the awesome functionality Magento 2 is harder to install than the previous version of software. This necessitated the emergence of multiple installation guides across the Internet. But, most of them point at the manual way of installation, or cast a lot of console spells to install different server-side software, or just loose their relevance gradually.
The changes introduced for Magento 2 are significant and developers, merchants and the others involved in Magento need to know the specifics of the new platform since it is almost here.
This knowledge will help to understand the advantages provided by the Magento 2 and the specifics of its usage. Primarily oriented towards store owners the Glossary below describes most prominent Magento 2 features in plain language.
This article starts our Ecommerce Markets Overview series, where we’ll evaluate most promising local ecommerce markets and consider Magento perspectives within them.
Ecommerce Market Volume
Our first destination is China – the biggest and one of the most rapidly growing ecommerce markets in the world. According to eMarketer, online spending in China will reach one trillion dollars in 2018. Compare, the US online retail market will just exceed 500 billion dollars by that year.
Selling by brands is a time-tested approach in ecommerce contained by default in most platforms, including Magento, and used by numerous grand companies, including Amazon.
Multiple functionality extensions push this functionality forward and make website Shop By sections real art pieces of usability and design. Still, with the development of e-trade more and more cases appear aimed at reduced costs and time savings. Namely this kind of inquiry gave life to the new version of our Shop By Brand Magento extension.
