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Magento Versions & Extension Conflict

As I discussed in the previous article, Magento extensions are the way to go in order to expand your Magento eCommerce website. With that being said, it may not always go smoothly. I’m taken back to the days of studying stats for this next insight. We are dealing with two different planes of data. First, Magento releases new versions quite often and each of those versions vary in their stability and problems. Second, each extension is attached to one or multiple versions. Now for the tricky part. I would venture to say that a lot of versions and combinations of extensions have never been tested together. With more then 4,000 extentions and probably at least 50 versions of Magento we are looking tons of combinations of possible version/extensions that could exist and the problem is you might be running the first test of a certain combination. When you fall victim to extension conflict you won’t be happy, but here is what we recommend you do:

1. Research
2. Install and Thoroughly Test
3. Contact the Extension Developers
4. Implement Patches or Find An Extension That Works Read More

Magento Mine Fields

Our business has now been coding for the past 10 years and we’ve built a reputation in the community for advanced and custom development. For about seven years, our take on ecommerce was that there was no system good enough or expanded enough for a company that was serious about taking their business online. In fact, we felt it would be like trying to wrap ones arms around the world to build a really good ecommerce system that could act as a platform for building custom ecomerce onto it.  In spite of this challenge, about three years ago I started getting a lot of requests for Magento. Of course we were leery of it because we’d seen so many other systems that blew out over time.  However, after a while we took the demand as a sign that Magento might be the real deal.

We are good at what we do, and almost any other system/platform we’ve adopted we’ve been able to learn within a few months. However, with Magento the learning curve has been much longer. I’ve began to explain to clients that Magento is more like running through a land mine field where after one has blown themselves up enough times, you start to really understand how to navigate the field. That being said, if you are a newbie coder to Magento, I’ll warn you upfront that you may have a long road ahead of you. However, because we’ve come down this road, we’ve more and more seen the need for someone to go out and give an overview of the field with some instruction on how to avoid blowing your leg off. Read More