Magento 2 out-of-the-box comes with over 60,000 files/folders. If you are updating a page on the frontend, sometimes the location of the template file you are editing is obvious; other times it can be elusive. In following, I will share…
This article will explain how to manually set a customer’s password in the database, which will probably be helpful at times if you are developing an M2 site locally. The customer_entity table contains a field called password_hash and this is…
Every 90 days Magento 2 will ask you to reset your admin password, which can be a nuisance when working on your local environment. The picture below shows where Magento checks to see if your password has expired. The admin_passwords…
The Enhanced Developer Tools Extension (Download) When a page is loaded, that has not been cached, Magento processes well over 100 files. So, if you need to edit a page, this normally requires manually looking for the file(s). The ‘Enhanced…
What is a Directive? From time to time, in Magento, you may run across code snippets with two squiggly opening and closing brackets. What are those “squiggly bracketed” snippets of code officially called? They are called directives. These are very similar…