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Magento 2 AdditionalBlockTemplate

Magento 2 AdditionalBlockTemplate

October 8, 2023

If you override any PHTML template, the legacy of your theme goes up: More to maintain. Because of this, we should strive for as less code duplication as possible. The Yireo AdditionalBlockTemplate module might offer part of that solution.

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Removing Shopware JS plugins for real

Removing Shopware JS plugins for real

October 1, 2023

The Shopware 6.5 storefront ships with almost 500Kb of JavaScript. And this is due to a large set of JS plugins of which some might not be needed in your shop. What about removing some of it? Here is a neat Webpack trick that allows you to do just that.

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A Magento 2 ThemeOverrideChecker

A Magento 2 ThemeOverrideChecker

September 29, 2023

Upgrading Magento themes can be horrible at times, especially when overrides were added too easily in the past. To lighten the workload, I have created a Yireo_ThemeOverrideChecker CLI that helps you judge the nature of those overrides.

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Shopware hackathon on October 6th

Shopware hackathon on October 6th

September 22, 2023

On Friday, October 6th 2023, Yireo is organizing a hackathon focused on Shopware 6 development. Fancy learning about Shopware? Frustrated with the lack of specific features? Get your hands in there and join us for a coding exercise.

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Small little Shopware utilities

Small little Shopware utilities

September 18, 2023

For the past 3 years I have been diving into Shopware development. And while collaborating in projects, developing plugins and creating courseware, I have been slowly creating more and more utilities that are simply handy for development.

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Magento composer replace tool improved

Magento composer replace tool improved

September 12, 2023

The composer replacements managed by Yireo have gotten a face-lift. Well, actually not the replacements themselves, but the way to apply them to your project: Meet the composer replacement tool: A composer plugin with its own replace CLI to help you manage things.

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Module dependencies with catalog inventory or MSI

Module dependencies with catalog inventory or MSI

September 6, 2023

Ages ago, with Magento 2.3.0, the Multi Source Inventory (MSI) solution was presented to the Magento community, offering a solid solution for a shop that was spreading its inventory across multiple warehouses. With that, the original catalog inventory was deprecated. Still, many are using the original solution. The problem is choice.

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Agency packages for Yireo On-Demand courses

Agency packages for Yireo On-Demand courses

August 29, 2023

We have been offering video courses for a few years now. The amount of videos is slowly increasing (nearing the 100 hours worth of videos). And the demand for these courses is also increasing. Time to also offer bulk packages for agencies, that want to educate all of their developers.

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Our feelings towards Mage-OS

Our feelings towards Mage-OS

August 22, 2023

One word: Love. It started with a letter, it went forward with a fork that was more like a distribution which is yet to be released, it is a movement. Here's our feelings towards Mage-OS (and hence a personal vision).

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