Magento 2.0 is live now

Well, the long stay for Magento 2.0 is over. Its 1:37 am on November 18, 2015 in India and i am receiving notification email from Magento that Magento 2.0 is available to be downloaded from Magento Download Page. I am starting the tutorials for Magento 2.0 on this blog with more frequent posts. Keep in touch for latest updates for Magento 2.0.

Add profile picture for customer in magento

I got a requirement from client to enable customers to upload their profile picture (Avataar Image) in Magento from my account section. I tried to build a custom module but didn't have much time to do that. The client also needed functionality to enable customers to crop their image too. Luckily i googled and came across a fantastic extension that provided all that i needed. The extension can be downloaded from here . It really saved at least 15-20 hours of my effort.

Reminder: Download and install Magento security patches. Download now.

You need to download two files from https://www.magentocommerce.com/products/downloads/magento/ 1) SUPEE-5344 2) SUPEE-1533 These two are security patches for magento that addresses potential remote code execution exploits. To execute these two files you need to download both files and upload to root directory of your Magento Installation. Then through ssh execute below commands: sh name-of-file1.sh sh name-of-file2.sh Replace "name-of-file1.sh" and "name-of-file2.sh" with the real filenames downloaded.