Magento News Weekly Roundup 017: Magento EE 2.1, Magento on Cloudways, Magento Frontend Performance, and more

Zain Imran
June 24, 2016

A good day to you, Magenticians! A lot has been going on in the world this week. But of course, nothing as important as Magento related stuff, right? ;)

Here we are with another edition of the Magenticians Weekly Round Up. Check out the neat information we’ve gathered for you.

Starting with official Magento news, Magento Enterprise Edition 2.1 Unleashes the Power of Marketers and Merchandisers. We’re informed that Enterprise 2.1 edition provides your team the power to quickly build cool new shopping experiences, without much hassle. The aspects covered by the new changes to the Enterprise Edition are designed to include drive sales and productivity, boost conversion rates, allow scalability of growth, better admin panel, and deployment on the cloud.

Maggie Sawyer touches upon an important topic in her article, 4 Best Magento Plugins to Boost Mobile Commerce. Despite the chopping and changing to the algorithms which determine SERP rankings, some factors will keep mobile responsiveness a vital aspect of ecommerce website building. She mentions such factors and then presents 4 Magento Plugins which help with customer management, order tracking, daily deals, SEO, analytics and much more.

MageStackDay is an online hackathon for the Magento Stack Exchange site. Fabian Schmengler discusses the status of the hackathon, which has recently been upgraded from its beta. Fabian mentions the MageStackDay #5 and the moderation discussion which took place to exchange ideas on the future of MageStackDay and whether it helps or harms the Magento cause. Fabian also presents his views in the article.

The guys over at Firebear Studio have discussed Why Magento Stores Should Run on Cloudways. The article discusses the aspects of a proper hosting provider, such as infrastructure choices, a good optimization stack, security, pricing, support and other value-added features. For both Magento 1 and Magento 2, Cloudways seems to be an option worth considering. The review is worth reading to be aware of your hosting options.

Wajid Hussain has written about How To Configure Product Attribute Sets In Magento. He explains what the attribute sets are, and how to go about setting them, how to combine attribute sets, and how to change existing attributes. Also, Wajid teaches us how to create a simple “hello world” plugin in How to Create Simple Extensions in Magento 2. In this piece, Wajid explains the difference between “module“ and “extension”, as well as Magento 1 and Magento 2. Then he explains all the technical steps of creating an extension for Magento 2.

Fayyaz Khattak discusses How to Improve Magento Frontend Performance. As your front end is the “face” of your online store, there is not a single Magento store owner who cannot benefit from implementing the suggestions contained in that article. If you want to know how to Upgrade Magento 2 Using CLI (Command-Line Interface), read Fayyaz’s article for a quick overview on how to do that.

I hope these articles prove helpful to you. If you’re writing anything Magento related, and publishing it in this coming week, and you’d like to include it in our roundup, let me know in the comment section below!

Cheers!