Magento Weekly 009: PayPal Changes, Shopping Cart Examples & More

Saad Durrani
April 22, 2016

Greetings Readers!

I hope everyone is enjoying Magento 2.

Welcome to the majestic world of Magento.

First things first: Platform.sh! Want to know what it is?

Well, Platform.sh is a Continuous Delivery platform used as a service, powered by a high-availability grid of micro-containers. It offers continuous cloud hosting with fail-proof deployments, easy scaling, and amassing multiple applications on it is as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Recently, the team at Platform.sh partnered with Magento to bring Enterprise Cloud Edition.

However, that’s not the only thing.

It seems Cloudways is planning something big. A few Magento store owner has reported that the Cloudways Cloud Platform is in its final phase of a change in cloud hosting. This comes as a surprise considering the team recently added Magento 2 into its platform and made Let’s Encrypt Free SSL available.

From what we have heard, it seems like a revolution: a Cloud Hosting Revolution. Stay tuned!

Let’s talk about tutorials now.

This week, Tim Reynolds shed light on an update from PayPal and the changes it brings to Magento stores. PayPal updates the users about the latest improvements in its encryption and security technology. Magento users may face a possible service disruption due to these changes. After investigating a little, he came up with some conclusions indicating a TLS1.2 upgrade, an IP address update, merchant API credential upgrade, and SSL certificate upgrade.

Natalie Pavlovskaya articulates about the latest rich media snippets of Magento 2. Here is some interesting information. These snippets are SEO friendly and offer better visibility in SERPs. These also improve your CTR as well. Magento 2 can use these snippets to enable an easy display of price, rating, and other markups.

Next up! A nice article from Demac’s Justin titled 25 World Examples of Magento Shopping Cart Price Rules. This composition will teach you how to set up price rules discounts in Magento. It gives out detailed insights into Magento’s interface and what a user can achieve with Magento.

Wajid Hussain from Cloudways interviewed an accomplished developer with a complete Magento certification, Dusan Lukic. Lukic runs his Magento education blog while working as a Magento Developer at Space 48. In the interview, Dusan discusses what keeps him going while working with Magento and how he copes with the advanced Serbian Magento community.

Fayyaz Khattak comes up with yet another insightful Magento “made easy” tutorial. This time, he teaches the Magento community the way to setup Privacy Policy on Magento 2 stores. Privacy Policy for an online store or any other website is vital. Businesses pay extra attention to these privacy-related matters so that the user, as well as the business, can stay protected.

This week, Michael Turk visualized the entire community as a song. He thinks Eric Prydz’s Generate embodies the joyful and productive spirit of Magento. I think he is right. Dance away, good people! See you next Friday.