Welcome to our technical tips blog – solutions and answers for numerous Joomla, Wordpress, Magento, Linux, MySQL and other problems.
Collections in Magento2 can be a real pain. Was having problems with sorting a category getProductCollection collection into position order! The products were just displaying in random order(or rather ID number order). $categoryId=891; $category = $this->_categoryFactory->create(); $category->load($categoryId); $products = $category->getProductCollection();$products->addAttributeToSelect(‘*’);$products->setOrder(“cat_index_position”,’ASC’);
This assumes you’ve created a new Integration in Magento 2 by going to M2 Dashboard -> System -> Integrations. Create a new one, give it Resource Access to ALL and save. Then Authorise it, then it’ll create new consumer_key,consumer_secret,access_token,token_secret values
I found problems adding an already used domain as a website eg. if startnet.co.uk was already on Siteground it didn’t like me adding test.startnet.co.uk when creating a website. So found this solution: Login to Siteground. Add a new Website Pick
Kept getting an “Invalid private key file” error when trying to connect to Siteground using an SSH private key file over SFTP on port 18765. The keyfile worked perfectly on Filezilla, so was quite confusing. Turns out it’s the format
Extract the vimeo.com video URL – it will be something like https://player.vimeo.com/video/123456789 and go to that in your Browser. Right click and choose View Source. Select All and Copy. Paste the HTML code in the textbox below. Click “Grab Vimeo
Wanted to say a Google Maps Streetview image – without all the buttons and tags. Use the code below, then use Snipping Tool to save the image. Note: the only problem are the new hover icons, I couldn’t get the
Writing this up as got caught by a wrong command on the actual Google docs – was resizing a disk from 100Gb to 300Gb. You resize the disk in the Google Cloud admin console. Then use “growpart” to resize the
This can be used for Thunderbird, the Mageplaza SMTP Magento2 plugin or any 3rd party Gmail app. Login to Gmail, then go to “Manage your Google Account”.Then click “Security” or go straight to https://myaccount.google.com/security 2 Step Verification should be turned
