Raivis Vitols - Magento Developer

Hello, I'm Raivis Vitols - Magento Certified Developer & Magento Certified Solution Specialist from Latvia.

I've been working with Magento Open Source / Community And Magento Commerce / Enterprise Editions for more than 10 years.

This blog is mostly developer notes for myself, some examples for others & my humble attempts to stay on top of Google search results! Enjoy!

How to add custom "table-like" configuration field in Magento admin

In this post I’ll show you an example of adding custom “table-like” system configuration field in Magento admin. And by “table-like” I mean something like this:..

March 27, 2017 | #magento

Changing the trigger DEFINER in Magento database dump

If you’re about to work with Magento EE 1.13+ & have the database dump on your hands, you might want to check & change the trigger DEFINER statements of it...

July 16, 2016 | #magento

Willow - free, responsive and minimalist Ghost blog theme

Looking for a ghost blog theme? Here’s an open-source, responsive & minimalist theme I built for this exact blog. Get the Willow theme from my GitHub...

July 4, 2016 | #misc

Returning JSON response from Magento controller action

Here’s quick example of how to return JSON response from Magento controller action. Assuming you have already created appropriate XML configuration and controller class/file, just add the following code to your action:..

June 16, 2016 | #magento

Add custom product, category and CMS page tabs in Magento admin

Adding custom product, category or CMS page tabs in Magento admin can be challenging task if you haven’t done it before and do not know where to start...

April 10, 2016 | #magento

Hosting Ghost blog with Nginx - config example with www redirect and SSL by LetsEncrypt

Here’s a sample Nginx configuration for Ghost blogging platform, that includes: 1) standard proxy configuration to successfuly host Ghost blog; 2) redirect “www” to “non-www” website; 3) use “https” over “http” website;..

March 19, 2016 | #server

Fix the locale warning on a new DigitalOcean droplet

If you’ve just created a new Ubuntu 14.04 DigitalOcean droplet and are installing or upgrading some packages, you’ll notice this annoying warning being shown in console:..

March 18, 2016 | #server

Programmatically change store config to avoid rewrites in Magento

Here’s a nice strategy to achieve a desired functionality in Magento while completely avoiding class rewrites - programmatically changing the store configuration via observers prior to core code execution...

March 18, 2016 | #magento

Load customer by custom attribute in Magento

Here is an example of slightly more advanced approach of how to load customer in Magento - load customer by attribute value - be it some default attribute or a custom one...

February 1, 2016 | #magento

Load customer by email in Magento

Another example of how to load customer in Magento - this time - by customer email. Previously we looked at how to load customer by ID in Magento, now we will do the same, but using the customer email address...

February 1, 2016 | #magento