Magento 2.x Feature Requests and Improvements

After playing around with the different versions of Magento 2, I found 2.2.5 to be the most stable for the QQ.COM email spam attacker.   In version 2.2.5 The spammer only shows up as a online visitor and does not create a new customer account automatically.   In versions 2.2.6, 2.2.7, and 2.3.0 the email spammer automatically creates a customer account, bypassing the account login setup, creating the hundreds of customers per hour in the data base. I have tried using IP blockers, but the spam still gets through.   In version 2.2.5 the data base visitor log shows over 750 visitors in about a 2-day period, but nothing shows visibly on the admin side, except who is on line at that time. With the online visitor it does not show any information on the ID, First Name, Last Name or Email columns, only shows Last Activity and Type. Usually 5 – 10 online at a time when I look. I think the next version of 2.3.X should have the same method of showing all incoming mail as a visitor and not as a customer that automatically creates the hundreds of customers per hour. Have an admin option to manually or automatically purge the visitor database at any time, otherwise the data base would continue to grow unchecked. (Could be purged every hour, once a day, once a week, once a month type options) ... View more

Is there a way to change the customer name order (as in Lastname Firstname) globally in forms and display as well? It's ok, that the user registration form can be changed easily, but I could not yet find out how to do it on the checkout page, for example. If you don't get the reason: I'm in Hungary, where we use this "reversed name order", like the Japanese. ... View more

Hi,   We have found that the only way to changes image dimensions for resize is in code and would love it if this was something configurable from the admin panel. Is this something that is already in the process of being implemented or could it be implemented soon?   We look forward to hearing from you!   Thanks! ... View more

Default functionality shows the requisition list icon only upon login. I'd like the option to show it to both logged-in and non logged-in users.   If we offer it (and explain what it is), it's an incentive for users to log in. ... View more

With wish-list sharing in mind, I'd like to see requisition lists shared in a similar way. ... View more

We need to be able to see what customers purchased what products.  Currently there is no way to see that.     Would be ideal to be able to show the customer, the order and the products in that order.   ... View more

There is no easy way to automatically add a widget to every product within a specific category.   Every time a new product is added, you have to go and edit the widget and add this new product to the list. Which becomes a problem when we are talking about 1000 of products.   The use case for this is a product type where we want a global instruction text for all these products within a specific category.   We do not want to include this text in every single product description, because we want to update it centrally on one location if needed. ... 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

This is more of a demand than a suggestion, because it's total madness that this is not standard. How has this simple thing, that is so important, been overlooked by Magento?   I'm creating a multivendor marketplace using Magento2 for fashion retailers.    In the world of fashion (and many other retail avenues) have all kinds of odd names for their colours, to make them sound more exciting for buyers.    However in Magento2, when creating a configurable product using attributes, when choosing colours you can only see the colour name, not the swatch of the colour. Why the hell would Magento leave such a simple thing out?!   How on earth are vendors supposed to know the variant shades between the colour names, if they cannot see the colours?!     Just look at that! ...It's pathetic.   I'm not sure this should even be a suggestion, if the Magento team see this post, you should just get this sorted because it's total madness.   I've sunk a lot of money into building this with Magento2 so far, but to have this simple thing have such a detrimental effect at this stage ...Just shame on Magento for having overlooked this.   I've seen posts for this dating back to 2016, it's now November 2017. GET IT DONE. ... View more

Given we have to jump through so many hoops regarding caching systems such as Varnish etc to get any kind of decent performance, the least a default installation could do would be to make it automatically optimise with mod_pagespeed. Magento installations are the only sites I run where I have to turn it off completely. The problem seems to be knockout.js. Can only imagine how fast a site with both caching and optimised html would be. More info: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mod-pagespeed-discuss/FtdyLTVPRLc ... View more

Similar to #9582 - we should eliminate the complicated necessary inheritance for creating Imports and Exports that plug-in to DataFlow ... View more

In magento 1 X.commerce produced the following guide http://info2.magento.com/rs/magentosoftware/images/magento-extension-developers-guide-v1.0.pdf   Its approximately 70 pages long.  I found this invaluable in learning how Magento 1 worked.  Put simply it was a short guide that produced an extension from start to finish teaching many basic principals of Magento 1 such as: Code setup and configuration - code structure Design setup - templates and layouts Frontend development - database schema, models, output (blocks), routes, helpers, sample data Backend development - admin configuration, routes, models, output (including grids), helpers, ACLs   I believe where this guide succeeds is that it carries a single example across many topics.  More importantly it has the right level of detail in terms of producing something useful yet not too much to becoming obsolete overnight.  And it focuses on magento in terms of PHP development unlike some of the books I've read through which cover a far wider range of topics and often include a few chapters on installation and setup for example.   I realise that Magento 2 is technologically more advanced and perhaps this is too difficult to achieve. However reading through the developer docs many areas still seem disjointed (and by this i mean a common example which is carried throughout - not simply a collection of snippets of information) and I feel it would be really helpful if an all-in-one guide extension guide was put together not only for me but to help the greater community.   To give you a bit of history I'm a competent Magento 1 developer but I'm finding some Magento 2 concepts difficult to follow.   I'll be honest I've seen https://u.magento.com/training/schedule/ and I believe your pricing will stall the adoption of Magento 2   ... View more

Magento 2 stores files on disk in the /media dir, but this makes multi-server setups more complex as this dir needs to be shared by all machines. At the same time, cloud storage is very flexible and scalable (no more running out of disk space for example). By implementing Gaufrette, a well-known file system abstraction layer from the Symfony world, we can put our media files anywhere we like, including S3, Google Cloud, FTP and countless more places. And should a developer ever need more than this, a custom file system can be developed easily too. ... View more

Bumped into this one yesterday. At our company we like to use semantic correct names for our attribute codes. With middle- to larger sized shops these names tend te be somewhat longer. Attribute codes in Magento 2 are not allowed to be longer than 30 characters.   Can anyone explain to me what's the reason behind this? Is there a technical one? Or is it just that someone thought at some time "30 characters ought to be enough for anyone"?   I'd really like to know. ... View more

https://framework.zend.com/blog/2016-06-28-zf1-eol.html   So Magento will migrate lib components to other   zf2 or doctrine etc? for example still magento using Zend_Db from zf1. ... View more

Hi,   I've see as of April 7, 2017 that Magento is rolling out a B2B Cloud for the Enterprise edition. I wonder if this is being considered, or some iteration, for the Community edition? I think this would be a great addition. ... View more

While there are multiple threats a modern Magento application faces, one of the weakest from a security standpoint is the ability to run arbitrary commands without application level authentication via the command line. It seems to me the bin/magento command should require a user to be authenticated with the Magento application prior to execution of a command for a fully installed system. Whether that is achieved via user/pass or other method is up for discussion, just as long as the CLI was treated similarly to the web from an authentication point of view.   I understand that there are many ways to discount the need for such a feature, but given the power of the bin/magento command (and n98-magerun2) it seems prudent to authenticate (and log) actions.   This might be enforced at the framework / API level in order to help shell / CLI commands and n98-magerun inherit the same security stance.   Adding additional devdocs / publishing best practices on security hardening a Magento installation would also be nice to see.   Thank you for listening, Hardy Johnson   Technical Lead Copious, Inc.   hardyj@copiousinc.com ... View more

The idea is to have an option how customers are adressed. For example personal like "Hello Ben" or formal like " Dear Mr. Marks". These could be on webshop welcome message and also in transactional mails. ... View more