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Magento News Weekly 022: Improved Extension Quality Control, Affiliate Partnership Extension, Developer Tool Framework, Magento 2 Extension Architecture

Greetings Magenticians! At the end of another week, we are here with a round up of the best Magento related publications the web has to offer. The best thing about Magento is that all store owners share a common goal, to increase their sales. The articles mentioned here help you do just that by improving the user-experience of your store. Do update your knowledge of Magento today.

Let’s start with the official Magento website. Mark Lenhard shares some awesome news in Introducing The Xcelerate Technology Partner Program. Being an open-source platform, any developer is welcome to build up extensions for Magento. But what has been missing so far is effective quality control or certification of those extensions. The Extension Quality Program is dedicated to ensuring that you, the store owner, get nothing but the best feature enhancing extras from the Magento Marketplace. The Xcelerate program has divided technology partners into three categories: Registered Partners, Select Partners, and Premier Partners. Woohoo! This is exciting. No doubt, the Xcelerate program will further improve the quality delivered to you, the consumer of the Magento Platform product. Check out the link to know the criteria, and benefits the Partner categories.

Firebear Studios has reviewed an extension which can prove useful for any store owner. Mirasvit Affiliate Magento 2 Extension. For a one-time cost, you can manage your affiliate channels with supreme ease, using this extension. You can provide your affiliates three types of promotional material, in the form of links, banners, and widgets. The extension provides four types of promotional strategies, Pay Per Sale; Pay Per Click; Pay Per Lead; and Pay Per Impression. A user-friendly dashboard lets your affiliates easily choose the program they’d like to sign up for, and they are provided with an HTML embed code for placement on their website. The article explains Mirasvit Affiliate extension in detail by showing you how it works on the backend and frontend, along with useful screenshots. Go get it now!

Adam Prost jotted down a quick tutorial on Using Javascript to Get the Magento Configurable Product Child Id. He explains that spConfig javascript object is what you need to determine the child product ID on the frontend. Adam shows the code to accomplish this and walks you through it.

Alan Kent is running an absolutely epic experiment that all Magenticians should follow. In Developer Tool Framework Experiment for Magento 2, he is focusing on different stages of the lifecycle of a product. However, it is a part of a series of posts which are trying to come up with a standard development environment. Alan touches upon the source code structure as well as its management, virtualization technologies, configuration files, code pulling, deploying to production and more.

Do you want the Facebook “like” or Twitter “follow” button on your store, but don’t know how? Let Fayyaz Khattak help you out with How To Add Social Buttons Into Magento Site. He provides screenshots and code to reinforce the concept of adding social buttons on your site. If you don’t have social sharing enabled on your site, get on it right away!

Wajid Hussain goes in-depth on the topic of Understanding Magento 2 Extension Architecture. The two types of Model View Controller are explained, as well as why you shouldn’t edit the core Magento code. Then, he talks about the Magento architecture, and how to maximize the potential of Magento 2. Class initiation, dependency injection, and PHP_codeSniffer tool are also mentioned. All Magenticians are recommended to read this piece.

Finally, you don’t have to be a coding whizzkid or an ecommerce magnate to contribute to the success of Magento. In the Meet Magento Association Interview Decathlon: Diana Richter, meet a lady who is performing the duty of an accountant and team assistant at Magento. She is an inspiration for many people who can join Magento in a support role.

We hope you enjoy reading the articles mentioned here. Let us know through the comments about anything we may have missed, and happy selling. Until next time, adios!

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