About MageExpert

MageExpert is a project born from a passion for Magento, e-commerce, and open source technologies.

Created by the team at OpenITech — an agency specialized in Magento 2 development, Odoo integration, and open-source solutions — MageExpert aims to become a trusted resource for anyone looking to better understand, use, and optimize Magento and the broader e-commerce ecosystem.

Whether you’re a developer, integrator, store owner, or project manager, you’ll find:

Practical guides to configure, build, and improve your online store
Technical tutorials to deepen your Magento 2 skills
Strategic advice to boost performance and grow your e-commerce projects
Industry insights and updates on digital and open source trends

We believe a successful e-commerce site relies just as much on solid technical foundations as it does on clear strategic vision. That’s why MageExpert covers both the development and business sides of the equation.

Our approach: share practical, accessible, experience-based solutions.

Welcome to MageExpert — and enjoy the journey!

The Internet’s Achilles’ Heel

by Alexis O. | 13 June 2025 | English, Quick Reads | 0 Comments

Picture this:You’re chilling on your couch, watching Gordon Ramsay absolutely destroy yet another poor soul on Hell’s Kitchen, when suddenly—ding!—a Slack ping or a frantic phone call:“Everything’s down! Nothing’s working!”That’s probably what thousands of devs and...

PHP is dead… or is it? Spoiler: it’s alive and kicking

by Florent L. | 6 June 2025 | English, Quick Reads | 0 Comments

We’ve all heard it before: “PHP is dead, no one uses that anymore...” 🙄 And yet… PHP 8.4 and 8.5 are delivering some of the most exciting features we’ve seen in years. 🔧 Property Hooks in PHP 8.4 This one is chef’s kiss — you can now group a property with its getter...

Understanding the tree structure and importing LESS files into Breeze for Magento 2

by Tiff D. | 6 June 2025 | English, Posts | 0 Comments

The Breeze theme for Magento 2 stands out for its performance, clean structure, and flexible customization.Unlike the Luma theme (and its Magento UI Library), Breeze offers a more modern and straightforward approach to managing CSS/LESS styles.Organizing LESS Files in...

Why Breeze is the Best Magento 2 Theme (and a Real Alternative to Hyvä)

by Tiff D. | 5 June 2025 | English, Posts | 0 Comments

To build modern, fast, and high-performing Adobe Commerce (Magento 2) stores, the choice of front-end theme is crucial. For years, developers relied on the default themes: Luma and Blank. Then came premium alternatives like Hyvä. But recently, a new solution has been...

Varnish & Magento 2: Supercharging Full Page Cache Like a Pro

by Florent L. | 5 June 2025 | English, Posts | 0 Comments

What is Varnish? Varnish is a high-performance HTTP reverse proxy designed to cache and serve web content extremely fast.It sits between the client (browser) and your backend server (like nginx or Apache), and serves cached responses without having to hit PHP or MySQL...

Plugin or Observer in Magento 2: Stop Mixing Them Up!

by Alexis O. | 4 June 2025 | English, Posts | 0 Comments

A plugin, or "interceptor" in Magento 2, is an essential customization component that allows developers to extend and modify the behavior of a class's public methods without directly editing its source code. In other words, a plugin acts as an intermediary,...

Magento 2 & Redis: Boosting Cache and Managing Sessions the Right Way

by Florent L. | 18 May 2025 | English, Posts | 0 Comments

Redis: a fast, in-memory ally Redis is a lightweight key-value store running in memory, widely used for caching, sessions, queues, and real-time data handling. Magento 2 doesn’t require Redis, but it definitely benefits from it — especially when you're working with...

The Fall of a Titan

by Alexis O. | 15 May 2025 | English, Quick Reads | 0 Comments

An Enforced Break-Up The U.S. Department of Justice has taken a bold step in its fight against Google’s monopoly. It proposes, therefore, to force the company to sell its Chrome browser. Why? Chrome automatically directs users to Google Search, thereby strengthening...

Warden, or How to Easily Set Up a Complete Local Magento Environment

by Alexis O. | 9 May 2025 | English, Posts | 0 Comments

Magento is great (yes, really—and you probably think so too, otherwise you wouldn’t be here!). But installing Magento locally for the first time can quickly become long and complicated. Between Nginx, Varnish, Redis, MariaDB, etc., that’s a lot of services to set up!...

Welcome to MageExpert – The Magento & E-commerce Blog by OpenITech

by Florent L. | 7 May 2025 | English, Posts | 0 Comments

MageExpert is a blog dedicated to Magento 2, web development, and open-source e-commerce. Launched by the team at OpenITech, this site aims to share technical resources, practical tutorials, strategic guides, as well as insights and trends from the e-commerce world....