Magento Extension Reviews

License: Custom
Version Reviewed: 1.0.0

Although Magento 2 supports flat rate shipping, you are limited to a single rate. This can be restrictive when you want to expand your market to other countries or add an alternative shipping service and rate.

License: MIT
Version Reviewed: 1.0.2

An important part of SEO is making sure URLs are both descriptive and readable. Magento achieves this by maintaining a list of readable URLs consisting of "slugs", and the canonical URLs that they map to. For each product page, multiple URL rewrites are generated: one consisting of the product's unique slug by itself, and one for each category path that the product can be found in. This adds up to a lot of URL rewrites. In fact, for most Magento stores, the URL rewrite table is the largest in the database by a wide margin!

License: MIT
Version Reviewed: 1.0.0

If a Magento product isn't appearing on the frontend, it can be difficult to work out why. There are a number of factors that determine whether a product is visible, including stock status, the visibility attribute, and so on. This extension displays a modified product grid that summarises the various visibility factors, so you can easily see why a product is or isn't visible. The grid also allows reindexing products, to help with cases where an out of date index is the problem.

License: MIT
Version Reviewed: 0.1.6

A powerful addition to your Magento 2 installation that allows you to use an alternative media storage location. If you already have a large amount of media on a cloud service such as Amazon S3 and end up having to manually re-upload on your installation, this extension will simply this process for you. This is achieved by configuring the required service (Only FTP at the moment), and using the new Flysystem modal included with the extension to browse and select media files.

License: MIT
Version Reviewed: ba7a88ceec89

The Masquerade extension gives you the ability to create fake data by configuring rules. It is built upon the popular Faker library that can generate sensible looking fake data based on locales, for example addresses, names and phone numbers.

The configuration is YAML based and should be formatted using Faker formatters. Once you have specified the necessary database connection details, you can start generating fake data in the Magento database.

License: GPLv3
Version Reviewed: 1.0.1

This extension will ensure that all your images are optimised so that they take up as little disk space as possible. It reduces the amount of storage space required to host all of your media, which can sometimes be at a premium depending on your hosting setup. It also reduces the bandwidth required to send the images to your customers, which is especially important for mobile users.

Bulk orders can be a hassle for customers to place on Magento stores. For each product they want to add, they have to find its product page and add it to the cart, requiring 3 or more page loads and/or AJAX actions for each product. This extension adds a ‘Quick Order’ tab to customer account panels, allowing them to enter up to 8 product SKUs along with desired quantities, and add them all to the cart at once.

Customer groups are a handy way to offer discounts on some products to different types of customers in your store. By default, Magento 2 includes customer groups for guests, registered users, retailers and wholesale customers. It's also very easy to create new groups to represent customers who might fall into other categories, such as loyalty program members or B2B partners.

Magento's checkout success page can be hard to test. It's only shown when you complete the checkout process, and only once per checkout. If you try to refresh the success page, you'll be redirected to the cart. If you're adjusting the styles or content on the success page, having to place a new order every time you want to see the success page is very cumbersome.