by Alan Barber | Oct 26, 2026 | All, How To, Magento, Magento 2
A CSV import that flips products from Not Visible Individually to Catalog, Search leaves them with raw /catalog/product/view/id/ URLs. Why Magento skips URL generation when the file has no url_key column, how to find the affected SKUs, and three fixes.
by Gillian Owen | Jun 22, 2026 | Ai, eCommerce, Magento, Magento 2
If you run Adobe Commerce 2.4.7 on Adobe Commerce on Cloud, your environment faces a June 1, 2028 version upgrade enforcement date. Here is a vendor-neutral way to decide whether to upgrade in place, migrate to ACCS, or move off Magento entirely, plus how a senior team uses AI-assisted workflows to execute the upgrade faster and with fewer post-go-live surprises.
by Alan Barber | Jun 8, 2026 | All, How To, Magento, Magento 2
One of the quieter Magento 2 performance regressions hides in plain sight: your admin category tree and anchor category listings get sluggish, but nothing shows up in the logs. No exception, no warning, no var/log/exception.log entry. The culprit is a single-character...
by Alan Barber | Jun 8, 2026 | All, How To, Magento, Magento 2
One of the more disruptive Magento 2 failures on S3 remote storage is a PHP fatal that nobody threw on purpose: TypeError: stream_get_meta_data(): Argument #1 ($stream) must be of type resource, bool given. It surfaces in your logs as PHP Fatal error: Uncaught...
by Alan Barber | Jun 8, 2026 | All, How To, Magento, Magento 2
One of the more alarming Magento 2 failures is a category that suddenly won't save, or a product import that dies mid-run, throwing SQLSTATE[22003]: Numeric value out of range: 1264 Out of range value for column 'entity_id' at row 1. You'll find the...
by Alan Barber | Jun 8, 2026 | All, How To, Magento, Magento 2
One of the more maddening problems you can hit on a Magento 2 store isn't in Magento at all — it's in a custom auto-heal routine you (or a previous team) bolted on top of it. Stock Magento ships no DB-versus-Elasticsearch reconciliation job, so when one exists...
