OVERVIEW
Whether to conduct Magento Migration – migrate websites from Magento 1 to 2 – has become a hot controversy in recent years. While some people doubt about Magento 2 stability, others wholeheartedly in favor of migration due to its impressive new features and storefront designs.
As a professional Magento agency who has more than 6-year experience on Magento, we are on the side of Magento 2 migration since it brings about better performance, more user-friendly checkout, enhanced security, more convenient admin interface, and so on for your store. Moreover, Magento 2 is has proved its stability over time through continuous updates and improvement, which might release the major fearfulness of many Magento store owners.
As you might know, there are 4 stages in the Magento 2 Migration process, namely Data migration, Extensions migration, Theme migration and Code migration.
- Data Migration: This is the process of transferring all of your product data, customer list, order date, configurations,… to the new Magento 2 site.
- Extensions Migration: Because of code conflicts, you cannot transfer extensions of Magento 1 to 2 but can find the extensions that have similar functions and for Magento 2 versions to install in the new store.
- Theme Migration: It’s rather complicated to migrate theme from Magento 1 to Magento 2, what you need to do is to create a Magento 2 design that has the same look with your Magento 1 design based on your PSD file.
- Code Migration: It’s fortunate that most of Magento 1 custom code is compatible with Magento 2 so you can either rewrite or migrate the code by using several Magento code migration tools.
