Magento 2.x Feature Requests and Improvements

Given that the current invoice, shipment and credit memo PDFs look the same as in Magento 1 and PDF's are always a bit of a nightmare to customize for the merchants: I suggest to replace the PDFs with a html2pdf tool. Actually the preview of the invoice looks already really nice in the backend, so this could just be converted to pdf.   This would maybe also help the problem Hirokazu Nishi mentioned in his tweet: "Magento2 still use LinLibertine font. It’s only for Alphabets. To change PDF font, we still have to rewrite some classes..."   This idea resulted from a tweet/discussion here: https://twitter.com/hirokazu_nishi/status/770282916819578881 https://twitter.com/rescueAnn/status/770338589326635008 https://twitter.com/benmarks/status/770339381995384832   ... View more

Currently the addresses are connected to Users. Using B2B features, can happen that all users belonging to the same company would use the same addresses. Currently we have to duplicate all addresses for all users of the same company. We would like to connect addresses also to the company entity so that are available for all users of that company. ... View more

The current Adobe Live Search implementation doesn't currently support adding translations.   The only current way to add translations to the Search Popover "View All" and "Suggestions" labeling is to use CSS (as provided as a temp solution by the Adobe Support team). This is not an accessible friendly approach.   The desire would be to replace the text within the label. Being able to translate within the i18n CSV files where most translations are defined would be best.   ... View more

Currently in 2.4+, the process of applying category rules requires a manual save of each category.  This is extremely time consuming for a store that has a lot of categories and also could severely impact the cache if done during business hours.  These rules should be applied automatically or at least on a schedule.  A bonus would be to do this in a cache-preserving way. ... View more

Summary   Google’s Core Web Vitals, as of 2021, penalizes search rank of sites with Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) delays and Cumulative Layout Shifts (CLS), because they decrease user experience.   See: https://web.dev/vitals/ for more info on that topic.   Magento and the Luma theme (in both Commerce Cloud, and also the Community Edition / Open Source) has LCP and CLS issues.   The Magento community edition currently has CLS issues reported, with no planned fixes yet:   https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/32956 https://github.com/magento/magento2/pull/33265/files   Since most of Adobe's Magento Commerce customers are probably using the Luma theme, this is probably impacting a large amount of customers. Examples LCP Most of the LCP issues are from big, slow, and/or fluffy JS/CSS files that Magento/Luma uses: styles-m.css: which is a huge 20k Luma stylesheet recaptcha__en.js: which is loading on every single page, even if the login popup is disabled in the header, meaning even when recaptcha does NOT need to be loading on every page, it still loads on every page. font-awesome.js knockoutJS jquery requireJS underscoreJS CLS The Luma theme in Magento Commerce Cloud has several Cumulative Layout Shift issues when viewed on mobile which occur site-wide, and some are specific to the product details page itself.   When viewed in DevTools > Performance tab while viewing in a mobile viewport, you can see the site loading, and then it flashes, the menus/search disappear, the logo shifts, and then everything comes back. That shiftaround is what Google penalizes for CLS.   Additionally, on the product details page, the dot slider navigation for product images loads async on the page, causing all content beneath it to shift downward, incurring a CLS penality.   Steps to Reproduce LCP Go to https://pagespeed.web.dev/ in a browser Enter a Magento store URL, eg this default Luma theme demo: https://magento2demo.firemultimedia.nl/ Click "Analyze" When the performance analysis is completed, click the "Mobile" tab to view Mobile performance metrics Scroll down to the "Opportunities" area and restrict to see only LCP opportunities, the vast majority of LCP improvement opportunities are core Magento/Luma stuff we have little control over, and are part of the Magento platform itself. CLS Go to https://pagespeed.web.dev/ in a browser Enter a Magento store URL for a product details page, eg https://mysticlabsd8.com/50ct-high-potency-delta-8-gummies/ Click "Analyze" When the performance analysis is completed, click the "Mobile" tab to view Mobile performance metrics Scroll down to the "Opportunities" area and restrict to see only CLS opportunities This section will show you what is shifting, and what CLS penalty each shift is incurring Additionally, for CLS, you can also measure this easier and visually see the layout shifts in Chrome: Open DevTools > Performance Go to a Magento site In DevTools, emulate a mobile viewport Click the refresh button in the performance tab to run a performance scan, and then stop it once the site loads Hover the mouse over the screenshots it takes, as you go from left to right on the timeline, you will see the layout shifts occurring, and the hamburger menu and search icons disappear, and then reappear again later ... View more

Hello,           We are stuck in using 3rd part blog modules and or integration of additional CMS such as Wordpress to use as blogging on website. I know allot of big companies have such issues as well and they stuck in using wordpress as blog together with magento 2 which is not good to use 2 different CMS solutions.   It will be best if you integrate internal blog solution that can be simple and easy to use, where we can add blog categories and content post to each category and can have option to add category into top menu to link to blog page.   I hope you will look into that solution to integrate, special in enterprise edition. ... View more

Hi, I am facing a problem with configurable products. If you create a configurable product and create some product variations based on lets say color & size, if you change the price and image for a specific variation and select this variation on the configurable product page, the price and image will change. This is a very good feature altough the expected behaviour for me would be that the description and specifications for this selected variation would be shown, in stead of the specifications of the configurable product itself. Why does it change the price and image, but not the description and product specifications? I attached a screenshot to give you an idea of the issue. I also used to have this problem in Magento 1 and found a module for this which solved the problem. However this module is not supported for Magento 2. https://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/sdocp-simple-details-on-configurable-products-1.html Is there a way this can be done programmatically or fixed in the core?   Kind regards, Falco ... View more

HTTPS has become quite the standard for the delivery of most content. Without delivering content through HTTPS users will experience "mixed content" browser errors and have content no be loaded correctly because its being blocked by modern web browsers. With that said; isn't it time for the Magento platform to come up with a cache system implementation that supports HTTPS and is recommended for us (Full Page Cache is "not recommended" per Magento documentation)?   Having to need two web servers (Apache + NGINX as a reverse proxy) and configure them to work with an HTTP-only cache system of Varnish is quite complicated and seems to me is overdue for an overhaul / new solution. ... View more

We need an alternative to the customer email login which is phone number login. It may not sound useful in Western countries but in China, it's necessary. Chinese people only use this login method with Taobao (taobao.com), Tmall (tmall.com) or JD (jd.com), they are used to it.   Without this basic option, Magento 2 will never make it in China.   ... View more

A big restriction in Magento is that it is not possible to use store view codes multiple times for different stores / websites.   For example this should be possible:   www.store1.com/en www.store1.com/de www.store1.com/nl   www.store2.com/en www.store2.com/de www.store2.com/nl   www.store3.com/en www.store3.com/de www.store3.com/nl   But this is not possible, because the store view code must be unique.   Now we have to do something like this:   www.store1.com/en www.store1.com/de www.store1.com/nl   www.store2.com/eng www.store2.com/deu www.store2.com/nld   www.store3.com/l_en www.store3.com/l_de www.store3.com/l_nl   And this just doesn't make sense. It would be nice to have the possibility to use store view codes across different websites / stores. Or to rewrite the storeview codes on the frontend, something like this:   code - rewrite to eng - en fra - fr deu - fr   english - en  french - fr german - de ... View more

At the moment, if you are trying to add an image to a product, you can only upload one from your computer and that gets uploaded directly to the server. You cannot upload an image from the media gallery. This should be an OOB feature.   The same happens with list and post images for posts. You cannot upload/access these from the media gallery. This should be an OOB feature.  ... View more

For some reason, page builder does not let you add image alt tags to images when you are adding in background images via page builder. Not having image alt tags is a bad practice for numerous reasons ... View more

Hi, I am thinking in add the feature to use telephone number instead of email on Magento 2. Mobile phones are everywhere and and in some countries people are using more their numbers to associate in some services instead of an email address.   My idea is offer both type of authentication on Magento 2 (email or sms) and also send the transactional emails using SMS messages to these customers. The admin user can customize the sms templates like it happens on transactional emails.   To send the messages we can offer a ready integration with a 3rd party service like Twilio or MessageMedia.   I was working on that in a custom extension, it's working good but my idea is incorporate that on Magento core.   Thanks. ... View more

Currently, the default contact form only allows customers to send an email to a single recipient. For stores that have multiple departments(ie. service, sales, customer support) that have different emails, this default contact form is simply not sufficient. Magento 2 allows admin to enter different email addresses into the backend for different departments so why not support the same thing on the frontend. It would be a great feature for customers to be able to choose which department or person to send a message to. Does anyone else think this would be a good feature? Let me know if I can clarify this in any way. ... View more

To improve security on magento 2, I'd like to suggest encrypt customer data && order data (customer related), because it's also quite sensitive data. If hackers will get database, then  they can easily re-use customer data from customer tables or order tables.     That's logical that email field cannot be encrypted, but lastname, firstname, address, vat & company would be nice to have encrypted ... View more

The "My Orders" view on accounts simply gives a list of orders sorted chronologically with the ability to set the number of records displayed per page.    It would be ideal to give a search function for the user to be able to search/filter for orders by a number of parameters including    - Order Number - Order Date (Including Date Range)  - Product   - Status     The only articles / extensions that i have ever found have been giving the administrator the ability to search for this. However for customers who are placing larger volumes of orders via a portal this could/would be a very useful piece of functionality ... View more

Official Magento 2 documentation do list how to enable redis caching for page and session caching but there's no equivalent command line to revert back to non-redis defaults it seems https://community.magento.com/t5/Admin-Configuration-Questions/Disabling-Redis-cache-from-command-line/m-p/89599   Would be nice if there were added command line options to disable redis caching and revert to default out of box configurations instead of having to modifying env.php.   Official docs http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.2/config-guide/redis/redis-pg-cache.html http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.2/config- ... View more

Currently Special Prices on Configurable Products show only after a customer clicks on a color/size. Special pricing is not displayed on Grids or Product Pages until after options are chosen (strikethrough regular price next to new price). Only the regular price shows until after the options are chosen. Magento Support confirms that this is default behavior. I would like for my site to function in this regard like all other M2 sites that have products on sale (sale price is shown on product grids and on product pages - without first choosing attributes). I literally can not find one M2 site that does not show sale prices on the grids or the product pages (before options are chosen). M2 sites like Le Creuset demonstrate the logical behavior I'm describing: https://www.lecreuset.com/special s   If this is functionality that all Magento 2 customers are having to pay developers to fix/customize, I would suggest that it is something that Magento should add to its core functionality. ... View more

Hi, As a suggestion I think it is better to add next generation image support for Magento 2 Thanks, Raminda ... View more