Insights & Guides

People picture a theme swap. Moving off Squarespace to a headless CMS is a full rebuild plus quietly owning the forms, hosting, SEO and content export Squarespace handled for you.

I accidentally wrecked my own Google rankings by over using AI. Here is the honest story of what went wrong and how I put it right.

People picture a theme swap. A Shopify to headless migration is really a frontend rebuild plus quietly owning everything Shopify used to do for you. The honest version.

Rewritten from my 2022-2023 Vue Storefront videos: how to put a Vue and Nuxt frontend on Magento over GraphQL, why you test queries first, and why shipping only the data you need is the whole point.

A field reference for the Magento 2 problems that keep recurring: empty categories, the 503 page, extension installs, config that travels, the 2.4.5 Amasty bug, and patching core safely. Rewritten from my 2020 to 2023 fix-it videos.

What EAV actually is, how to add your own product attributes with a source model, the cross environment option id trap that bites everyone, and getting it onto the front end. Rewritten from my 2021 and 2023 videos.

The follow-on to my beginners module piece, rewritten from my 2022 videos: adding fields to the admin order view, editing admin grids with UI listing components, and building advanced front end modules that extend core behaviour like layered navigation.

Rewritten from my 2021-2022 videos: the three files every Magento 2 module needs, the commands that register it, blocks and dependency injection, routes and collections, and when to build a module instead of editing your theme.

Rewritten from my 2022-2023 videos: how the Magento 2 checkout and mini cart really work, what Knockout is actually doing, and how to customise them without losing a day.

Rewritten from my 2020-2022 videos: the simplest sane way to add JavaScript to a Magento 2 theme, RequireJS to load it and jQuery to write it, kept modular.

How Magento frontend tooling went from Grunt to Gulp to Webpack to Laravel Mix, what each step actually fixed, and why the asset pipeline tells you a lot about why I left the platform.

The practical half of Magento theme work: moving the Luma header around with layout XML, rebuilding the footer, swapping the menu for a mega menu, and tidying the checkout, with the theme-or-module call made at each step.