Guest post by NexSoftSys

Magento is a popular e-commerce site supporting software which is known to provide the best customer experience as well as simplify the life of the owner! About 2 lakh e-commerce sites across the globe are known to operate on the initial version Magento 1.x. Just like the apps and software are updated regularly with new and improved features, the latest version of Magento was launched in 2015, Magento 2.0. This comes with better and powerful tools for technical analysis and improved efficiency.

If you are running your e-commerce site on an older version, say Magento 1.7 Community Edition or its predecessors or possibly Magento 1.13 or even older ones it is time that you upgrade your e-commerce site with the latest version, Magento 2. It is quite obvious that you are facing technical issues, with slow speed loading of the pages, frequent error messages etc, so upgrading to a newer version will help get rid of these issues.

Get a Magento site performance audit done for your e-commerce site to understand its position and performance levels and check how they can be improved. The experts will always suggest you move to the better and improved version. They will also suggest you with the necessary guidelines for usage, maintenance of the upgraded software.

Migration Steps

There are 4 steps involved in the migration process for Magento 2 as below:

1. Theme migration – Magento 1 themes cannot be implemented in Magento 2 automatically. You will need the assistance of the Magento developers to replicate the Magento 1 themes into the newer version of Magento 2.

2. Extension migration – Magento has not yet released the tools for replicating or moving its extensions to the new version. Check if the extension supplier has any Magento 2 in the marketplace otherwise you will need to create the extension from the scratch, in compliance with the coding standards of Magento.

3. Code Migration – Magento has its own code migration kit to make the Magento 1 codes compatible with the new Magento 2. Once done, the latest version provides a better structure!

4. Data migration – This is perhaps the lengthiest step in the entire migration process. All of the data from the previous version of Magento 1 needs to be transferred to Magento via the Magento Data Migration Kit. This kit allows automation of some codes and thus faster migration once you have granted the necessary permissions and network access to both Magento 1 and Magento 2 database.

Benefits of Magento 2

The benefits of the newer version are as below:

• The pub directory feature in Magento 2 is used by developers to protect their codes from getting leaked or any unauthorized access.

• Testing is done easily via automated testing processes. For example, Smoke testing, Regression testing, User Acceptance testing etc can be run with integrated PHP, browsers or Selenium Standalone servers. Some tests can be performed independently, while some are done together while in some cases each test is done at once followed by the other.

• The slow speed of page loading in the previous version of Magneto 1 is eliminated by Magento 2 with improved SEO ranking.

• The cloud deployment offers flexibility and security and scalability. 

Explore the wide range of benefits of Magento 2 today, contact us now! 

About Author: James Warner –  Senior Magento Certified Developer at NexSoftSys, experienced in Magento customization and bright technology knowledge to develop IT business system which includes user-friendly access and advanced features.