Category: Magento

How to customize Magento 2 Maintenance mode page?

Edit the file pub/errors/default/503.phtml and put the following code

<?php
/**
 * How to edit and customize code of Magento 2 Maintenance 503 Page
 * Add analytics if any
 * Replace <COMPANY NAME> with your Organization Name
 */
?>
<!doctype html>
<title>Site Maintenance</title>
<style>
  body { text-align: center; padding: 150px; }
  h1 { font-size: 50px; }
  body { font: 20px Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333; }
  article { display: block; text-align: left; width: 650px; margin: 0 auto; }
  a { color: #dc8100; text-decoration: none; }
  a:hover { color: #333; text-decoration: none; }
</style>

<article>
    <h1>We&rsquo;ll be back soon!</h1>
    <div>
        <p>Sorry for the inconvenience but we&rsquo;re performing some maintenance at the moment. If you need to you can always <a href="mailto:[email protected] NAME">contact us</a>, otherwise we&rsquo;ll be back online shortly!</p>
        <p>&mdash; Team COMPANY NAME</p>
    </div>
</article>

How to hide a specific category from Google Index in Magento 2?

In Magento Admin Panel, Go to Catalog in Left Menu > Categories
Select the category you want to edit and in Design Section > Layout Update XML, put this value:

<head>
    <meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"/>
</head>
How to add noindex nofollow on specific category page in Magento2

Save the category and then Clear the cache

Top CMS out there in 2018.

CMS:

A content management system is a software that helps us to manage our content and site.

You can literally manage everything from a blog to an e-commerce site, using CMS. You can manage an article if you have a blog, or manage your product if it is an e-commerce business.

It has made our life so easier that we just can’t imagine having a site without CMS. You can operate most CMS out there even if you have no prior technical knowledge.

Today we are going to talk about the top CMS in 2018, there features, flexibility and specifications because that’s what they are known for.

So, without any further delay let’s begin.

Top CMS:

  1. WordPress: This one goes without saying. Probably the best one out there. WordPress can make almost any kind of site either it is a blog, a real state site or an e-commerce. It can make anything under the sun. WordPress is the framework behind many of the websites and blogs you visit every day, including this one. .org Few of the key features are responsive design, social sharing features, multiple page styles, auto upgrade, and standard compliant coding. The one thing that makes it a CMS beast is plugins.
  2. Joomla: Joomla is a popular Content Management System. It is much more than just a powerful content management system. Besides, hundreds of extensions to enhance the functionality of any Joomla website, Joomla itself includes some powerful built-in features (or core features). Many times ranked as the 2nd best CMS after WP. zoomla Few key features are Rss, media manager, web links, search, banner management and, user management.
  3. Drupal: Drupal 8 takes an already terrific content management framework to ever greater heights for users, administrators, and developers. There’s a seriously sharp focus on user-friendliness, but the content presentation, new ways to create data structures, build APIs, multilingual capabilities, and the delivery of mobile accessibility out of the box? Drupal 8 brings those to the table too.  Few of the features are mobile first, multilingual ready, loading speed, javascript automated testing.
  4. Magento: Specific to make an e-commerce site. The large array of features is one of the main benefits of Magento. Through them, you can easily develop and manage a successful online store. Magento features like different payment engines and shipping options along with the international support and high security using an  SSL certificate will make your shop an attractive place for e-commerce.  The core features are checkout payment and shipping, analytics and reporting, marketing and promotional tools, and order management.
  5. OpenCart: OpenCart is an open-source shopping cart built on PHP/MySQL code. Distributed as a free eCommerce solution, OpenCart is a very user-friendly and effective platform that comes with a very intuitive and well-designed user-interface as well as a higher selection of extensions. Perfect for small businesses and medium-sized e-commerce stores, OpenCart is loaded with all the basic functions a user would need from an e-commerce solution.  Main features are, Product Reviews, Product Ratings, open source, multi-currency, automated image resize, 20+ payment gateways, and 8+ shipping methods.

One honorable mention is WIX. Very user-friendly having drag and drop interface.

SO, these were the top of 2018 CMS. You should choose one according to your needs.  Keep visiting for such more articles.

Thank You.

How to change PHP versions in VestaCP Ubuntu – Downgrade Upgrade 5.6, 7.1 and 7.2

For Downgrading 7.2 (default) to 7.1 PHP

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7.1 php7.1 php7.1-bcmath php7.1-bz2 php7.1-cgi php7.1-cli php7.1-common php7.1-curl php7.1-dba php7.1-dev php7.1-enchant php7.1-fpm php7.1-gd php7.1-gmp php7.1-imap php7.1-interbase php7.1-intl php7.1-json php7.1-ldap php7.1-mbstring php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-mysql php7.1-odbc php7.1-opcache php7.1-pgsql php7.1-phpdbg php7.1-pspell php7.1-readline php7.1-recode php7.1-snmp php7.1-soap php7.1-sqlite3 php7.1-sybase php7.1-tidy php7.1-xml php7.1-xmlrpc php7.1-xsl php7.1-zip
sudo a2dismod php7.2
sudo a2enmod php7.1
sudo service apache2 restart
sudo update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php7.1

Reference: Sandy B @ mysterydata.com

Fix Magento 2 – php cli error on cpanel or other hostings

The problem:

On a fresh install of Magento2 on cpanel based hosting, you receive the following error while running any command on SSH

[[email protected] www]$ php bin/magento cache:clean
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.0.31
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

bin/magento must be run as a CLI application
[[email protected] www]$ php bin/magento setup:upgrade
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.0.31
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

bin/magento must be run as a CLI application

The Solution:

You have to point php to correct binary;
Use the following code in order:
First, open the file which can alter the runtime variables like .bash_profile or .bashrc

cd ~ ; nano .bash_profile
OR
cd ~ ;nano .bashrc

Go to last line and paste this (depending upon php version change ea-php71 or ea-php70): 

alias php='/opt/cpanel/ea-php71/root/usr/bin/php'

Save the file and exit the editor.
Log out and login again OR use the following command 

$ source ~/.bashrc

If you are not sure about current php version, use which php or php -v command. If you think the cpanel configuration is the issue, fix EasyApache 4 PHP cli issue. With this way you can fix the setting and enable the new php version

How to get all attributes with all available labels/options in Magento2?

I did a lot of research but could not find a solution for that. so gathered some info and created this code: (it is not the best way to do it, but it works – you can use it at least one time for quick results)
the values need to be transformed if you want to see them properly in csv

Here is how to print all available attributes in backend and along with their all available options aka labels

<?php
        use \Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap;
        error_reporting(E_ALL);
        ini_set("display_errors",1);
        include('./app/bootstrap.php');
        $bootstrap = Bootstrap::create(BP, $_SERVER);
        $objectManager = $bootstrap->getObjectManager();
        //use Magento\Catalog\Model\ResourceModel\Product\Attribute\CollectionFactory;
        $collection= $objectManager->get('\Magento\Catalog\Model\ResourceModel\Product\Attribute\CollectionFactory')->create();
//$attr_groups = array();
$fta=array();
$ft=array();
        foreach ($collection as $items) {
                        $attr_groups = $items->getData();
                                                if($attr_groups['frontend_input']=="select" or $attr_groups['frontend_input']=="multiselect"){
$eav=$objectManager->get('\Magento\Eav\Model\Config')->getAttribute('catalog_product',$attr_groups['attribute_code'])->getSource()->getAllOptions();
$ft[]=$attr_groups['frontend_label'];
$ft[]=$attr_groups['attribute_code'];
//echo $attr_groups['attribute_code'].'<br>'.$attr_groups['frontend_input'].'<br>'.$attr_groups['frontend_label'].'<br>'.$attr_groups['attribute_id'].'<br>';
foreach($eav as $getlabel) {
        if(is_object($getlabel['label'])){
        $r = new ReflectionObject($getlabel['label']);
$p = $r->getProperty('text');
//echo $p;
$p->setAccessible(true);
        $ft[]= $p->getValue($getlabel['label']);
        }
        else
        $ft[]= $getlabel['label'];
}
$fta[]=$ft;
$ft=array();
}

Magento 2 cli commands [continued]

1. Setting GD2 as defualt image adapter from command line 

Magento >= 2.2
php bin/magento config:set dev/image/default_adapter GD2
php bin/magento cache:clean
Magento >= 2.2
 mysql --host=(host) --user=(user) --password=(password) -D (database) -e "\ UPDATE core_config_data SET value = 'GD2' WHERE 'dev/image/default_adapter' = path; \";

 2. Disable Minify CSS Files option from command line

Magento >= 2.2
php bin/magento config:set dev/css/minify_files 0
php bin/magento cache:clean
Magento < 2.2
mysql --host= --user= --password= -D  -e "\ UPDATE core_config_data SET value = 0 WHERE 'dev/css/minify_files' = path; \";
php bin/magento cache:clean

3. Disable Merge CSS Files option from command line

 

php bin/magento config:set dev/css/merge_css_files 0
php bin/magento cache:clean
Magento < 2.2
mysql --host= --user= --password= -D  -e "\ UPDATE core_config_data SET value = 0 WHERE 'dev/css/merge_css_files' = path; \";
php bin/magento cache:clean

How to install theme in Magento 2

Download the theme and copy the app folder and paste it in your magento root directory

  1. Open Shell, in the root directory, enter php bin/magento  setup:upgrade . This will upgrade all the magento files.

2. Also, Clear cache ,type  php bin/magento  cache:clean . 

3. Now force deploy the static files by typing  php bin/magento  setup:static-content:deploy -f . It will take a while.

4. Now, Go in the dashboard and select content->configuration.

5. Select the option with default store view and edit.

6. Select your theme from the options and click save and edit. If some problem arises, go to the vendor/magento/module-email/Model/AbstractTemplate.php and comment the “if”  condition of “setForcedArea” function, aprox. at line 535.

7. After changing theme successfully, clear the cache as done before.

Voila, the theme is changed!!

 

 

[SOLVED] PHP must be run as a CLI application error : Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

php bin/magento cache:clean
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
bin/magento must be run as a CLI application

as root user, run the following commands (For php v7.0)

# yum install ea-php70
# source /opt/cpanel/ea-php70/enable

The solution involves fixing php variable’s path. We need to find which php is being used right now, you can find out by 

$ which php
$ php -v

To fix this PHP cli error, see how to edit php in bash profile (.bashrc)

Magento 2 all cli commands

[~/www]# php bin/magento list
Magento CLI version 2.2.4
Usage:
command [options] [arguments]
Options:
-h, --help            Display this help message
-q, --quiet           Do not output any message
-V, --version         Display this application version
--ansi            Force ANSI output
--no-ansi         Disable ANSI output
-n, --no-interaction  Do not ask any interactive question
-v|vv|vvv, --verbose  Increase the verbosity of messages: 1 for normal output, 2 for more verbose output and 3 for debug
Available commands:
help                                     Displays help for a command
list                                     Lists commands
admin
admin:user:create                        Creates an administrator
admin:user:unlock                        Unlock Admin Account
app
app:config:dump                          Create dump of application
app:config:import                        Import data from shared configuration files to appropriate data storage
cache
cache:clean                              Cleans cache type(s)
cache:disable                            Disables cache type(s)
cache:enable                             Enables cache type(s)
cache:flush                              Flushes cache storage used by cache type(s)
cache:status                             Checks cache status
catalog
catalog:images:resize                    Creates resized product images
catalog:product:attributes:cleanup       Removes unused product attributes.
config
config:sensitive:set                     Set sensitive configuration values
config:set                               Change system configuration
config:show                              Shows configuration value for given path. If path is not specified, all saved values will be shown
cron
cron:install                             Generates and installs crontab for current user
cron:remove                              Removes tasks from crontab
cron:run                                 Runs jobs by schedule
customer
customer:hash:upgrade                    Upgrade customer's hash according to the latest algorithm
deploy
deploy:mode:set                          Set application mode.
deploy:mode:show                         Displays current application mode.
dev
dev:di:info                              Provides information on Dependency Injection configuration for the Command.
dev:profiler:disable                     Disable the profiler.
dev:profiler:enable                      Enable the profiler.
dev:query-log:disable                    Disable DB query logging
dev:query-log:enable                     Enable DB query logging
dev:source-theme:deploy                  Collects and publishes source files for theme.
dev:template-hints:disable               Disable frontend template hints. A cache flush might be required.
dev:template-hints:enable                Enable frontend template hints. A cache flush might be required.
dev:tests:run                            Runs tests
dev:urn-catalog:generate                 Generates the catalog of URNs to *.xsd mappings for the IDE to highlight xml.
dev:xml:convert                          Converts XML file using XSL style sheets
i18n
i18n:collect-phrases                     Discovers phrases in the codebase
i18n:pack                                Saves language package
i18n:uninstall                           Uninstalls language packages
import
import:categories                        Run category importer script
indexer
indexer:info                             Shows allowed Indexers
indexer:reindex                          Reindexes Data
indexer:reset                            Resets indexer status to invalid
indexer:set-mode                         Sets index mode type
indexer:show-mode                        Shows Index Mode
indexer:status                           Shows status of Indexer
info
info:adminuri                            Displays the Magento Admin URI
info:backups:list                        Prints list of available backup files
info:currency:list                       Displays the list of available currencies
info:dependencies:show-framework         Shows number of dependencies on Magento framework
info:dependencies:show-modules           Shows number of dependencies between modules
info:dependencies:show-modules-circular  Shows number of circular dependencies between modules
info:language:list                       Displays the list of available language locales
info:timezone:list                       Displays the list of available timezones
maintenance
maintenance:allow-ips                    Sets maintenance mode exempt IPs
maintenance:disable                      Disables maintenance mode
maintenance:enable                       Enables maintenance mode
maintenance:status                       Displays maintenance mode status
module
module:disable                           Disables specified modules
module:enable                            Enables specified modules
module:status                            Displays status of modules
module:uninstall                         Uninstalls modules installed by composer
sampledata
sampledata:deploy                        Deploy sample data modules
sampledata:remove                        Remove all sample data packages from composer.json
setup
setup:backup                             Takes backup of Magento Application code base, media and database
setup:config:set                         Creates or modifies the deployment configuration
setup:cron:run                           Runs cron job scheduled for setup application
setup:db-data:upgrade                    Installs and upgrades data in the DB
setup:db-schema:upgrade                  Installs and upgrades the DB schema
setup:db:status                          Checks if DB schema or data requires upgrade
setup:di:compile                         Generates DI configuration and all missing classes that can be auto-generated
setup:install                            Installs the Magento application
setup:performance:generate-fixtures      Generates fixtures
setup:rollback                           Rolls back Magento Application codebase, media and database
setup:static-content:deploy              Deploys static view files
setup:store-config:set                   Installs the store configuration. Deprecated since 2.2.0. Use config:set instead
setup:uninstall                          Uninstalls the Magento application
setup:upgrade                            Upgrades the Magento application, DB data, and schema
store
store:list                               Displays the list of stores
store:website:list                       Displays the list of websites
theme
theme:uninstall                          Uninstalls theme
varnish
varnish:vcl:generate                     Generates Varnish VCL and echos it to the command line