While launching a website for one of our hosting clients that uses WooCommerce, it was necessary to import products and orders from their old shop to their new one.
This could have been avoided had the developers used a copy of the website database, rather than starting over with a brand new WordPress database. However, by the time they brought me in, that was no longer feasible.
I was able to import the WooCommerce products, including all variable products, using the built in product import/export tool, but needed to find a different solution to import the orders.
This process will not work in all cases, but in some instances, it is possible to do the order import and export directly from the database, rather than using a paid plugin.
While setting up a test Magento 2 website, running the latest verison of Magento 2.4, I ran into an issue logging in: Two Factor Auth.
Due to the way my development server is setup, using two factor auth is not really needed, nor feasible.
However, this can be turned off so that you can access the Magento 2 backend without using it, by disabling the Magento_TwoFactorAuth module.
While setting up a server running Windows Server 2012 R2 for a client, I ran into an issue that required me to downgrade from .NET 4.8 to .NET 4.5.
When using Windows Server, .NET updates are installed via Windows Update, which meant finding the correct update for .NET 4.8 and uninstalling it.
When using Magento 2, if you want to add a configurable product to the cart outside of the normal product page, like from within a CMS page, you can’t just use the getAddToCartUrl() function, but instead need to create a special form. This article describes one way of creating an add to cart form for a configurable product that you could adabpt to a custom PHTML template file, such as in your theme or a custom module.
Please carefully read the notices though, as this is just a proof of concept and you should NOT simply copy the code as is!
I got an email from a client that I do Wordpress development for about performance impacts of the “Log Out Everywhere”, which appears in the back end of Wordpress when you are editing a user. I realized that I wasn’t overly familiar with how Wordpress sessions work, so took this as an opportunity to dig into how the actual session gets saved in the database.