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If you've worked with Magento 2, you probably understand that certain tasks are scheduled and executed routinely. These scheduled tasks are part of Magento's cron functionality.
https://m.academy/articles/magento-2-cron-crontab-cronjob/
How scheduled tasks work in Magento may not be as simple as you think. It's important to first understand how cron jobs work in M2 before being able to set up and configure one. We’ll go over what a cron even is and all of the terms and pieces, and how they relate to and work with Magento’s framework.29 Oct 2024
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Quick reference guide to debugging Varnish usage within Magento 2, covering cache utilisation, hit & miss rate logging, identifying the source of purge requests
https://www.sdj.pw/posts/magento2-debugging-varnish/29 Oct 2024
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A Magento 2 module to show some indexer-related information in the admin.
https://github.com/element119/module-admin-indexer-report -
You can use this if you want to move from Magento community edition to MageOS. This updates your composer.json file and your local patches.
https://gist.github.com/peterjaap/35854ea3bb470c8ac03275f042496026 -
In a local development environment, all images from the live system are usually missing. You can solve this problem by downloading images from a live server on-the-fly. Here's how to pull it off.
https://lazerbahn.com/blog/dev-tip-magento-development-environment-reload-images-from-cms-and-products-from-remote-server.html18 Oct 2024
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The goal of this project is to create an extensible Playwright testing environment for Magento 2 + Hyva projects. The main focus of this project was to:
https://github.com/ProxiBlue/m2-hyva-playwright
- have a base set of Hyva tests, which can be extended / updated by community members without affecting your own site specific tests
- Have a set of sub-tests (site tests) on a private repo that you can layer 'ontop' of the base hyva tests. -
Sansec Watch integrates with the Magento CSP system. It detects third-party activity to complement you existing CSP ruleset. CSP changes are automatically synchronized, no need to redeploy your store.
https://sansec.io/watch11 Oct 2024
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Create Landingpages based on predefined filters and categories. Example Category T-shirts and filter color = red.
https://github.com/EmicoEcommerce/Magento2AttributeLanding
Specify any url you would like for this page, for example red-shirts. Also you can define rich texts for SEO purposes on this landing pages.
Pages can be configured under Content > Manage pages and Manage overview pages. Overview pages are a list view of landingpages.11 Oct 2024
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