Magento 2 store security audit: what to check before something goes wrong
An online store processes customer personal data and payment card data. For attackers this is an attractive target. An attack does not always look dramatic – it is often invisible for weeks or months. A security audit is checking the state of the store before someone else does.
- Published in E-commerce
Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration – SEO data loss and 301 redirects
After migrating from Magento 1 to Magento 2, the shop lost 60% of organic traffic within 2 weeks. Ahrefs showed 4000 404 errors. Old product and category URLs were not being redirected. Fix time: 3 days.
- Published in Magento / Adobe Commerce
Magento 2 checkout – Place Order not working, cart resets
Customers reported they couldn’t place orders – clicking “Place Order” reloaded the page and the cart was empty. Orders were not reaching the system. The problem only affected card payments, bank transfer worked. Resolution time: 4 hours.
- Published in Magento / Adobe Commerce
Chain of Responsibility – multi-step validation, pipeline, middleware
Chain of Responsibility is a behavioural pattern in which a request passes through a chain of handlers – each can handle it, modify it, or pass it on. Ideal for multi-step validation, data processing pipelines and middleware. In Magento 2 this pattern is everywhere – in plugins, order pipelines and HTTP request handling. I show an implementation from scratch and three different chain variants.
- Published in Wzorce projektowe