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Kapil
13.10.2026
Agentic Commerce: What Magento Merchants Should Prepare for
An AI shopping assistant needs more than a convincing product description. It needs to know which variant fits, what it costs, and whether it can arrive on time. We explain what agentic commerce means for Magento merchants, where the challenges lie, and which improvements are worth making before investing in an integration.
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Simon
Ole
09.10.2026
Running Magento 2 Tests and Deployments via Bitbucket Pipelines
Every pull request in our Magento 2 projects runs through Bitbucket Pipelines – with static checks, security audits, unit tests, integration tests and end-to-end tests against a real client database. On top of that, the pipelines deploy, run smoke tests against the live shop, and notify us about failures. Here is our setup, including the pitfalls we ran into.
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Andrej
25.09.2026
How We Handle Magento 2 Version Upgrades
A step-by-step look at how we handle Magento 2 version upgrades at CustomGento. Unlike simple security patches, full version upgrades can introduce breaking changes across core files, themes, and third-party modules. We use tools like the Ampersand Upgrade Patch Helper and the Elgentos Upgrade GUI to review every override, resolve dependency conflicts, and carefully test before deploying updates safely.
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Vincent
27.08.2026
From Passwords to Passkeys: Smarter, Safer Magento Admin Access
Open Sesame! This phrase from ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’ is certainly well-known and a pretty simple form of a password. As magical as the story is, it quite obviously shows the weaknesses of passwords. Because you basically only have to find one way to eavesdrop on the password and you already have access to sensitive data. And this is exactly where passkeys come in. In this article, we want to take a closer look at the advantages of passkeys and how they can be used in Magento 2 to make admin access more secure.
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Ole
Irina
17.02.2026
Show the Right Product Details Every Time: Solving Magento’s Child Product Data Problem
Out of the box, Magento 2 treats configurable products as a single entity on the product detail page. Even after a customer selects a specific variation, key information such as the SKU or the description remains unchanged. In this post, we’ll explain why Magento behaves this way, what problems it causes in real-world projects, and how you can display the correct child product data as soon as a variant is selected.
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Azra
09.07.2025
[de]
Digital education at Uhlandschule Frankfurt
In today’s digital world, it is more important than ever that children learn how to use computers at an early age. At the Uhland School, computer lessons are therefore offered from year 2 onwards to teach pupils the basic digital skills they will need in the future.
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Ole
10.06.2025
[de]
Our Social Day 2025
This year we spent our Social Day at Samt & Sonders XXL in Enkheim. This is a second-hand store operated by the Protestant Church in Frankfurt and Offenbach. We ran a small coffee and cake stand, packed clothes into boxes and repacked the clothes, which could not be sold anymore.
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Ole
09.06.2025
Local Development Environments for Magento 2
Setting up local development environments for Magento 2 is challenging due to its complex service requirements (MySQL, Redis, Opensearch, RabbitMQ). When managing multiple projects with different service versions, you need isolated environments that can be easily configured and managed. This article compares the most popular approaches - custom solutions, Valet+, docker-magento, Docksal, ddev, and Warden - and explains why Warden is our preferred choice for efficient Magento 2 development.
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