https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog Articles on Magento 2, Hyvä, migrations, and e-commerce performance optimization. en-US Sun, 25 Oct 2026 06:53:50 GMT https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/five-questions-any-before-and-after https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/five-questions-any-before-and-after Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:02:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides A PageSpeed 100 next to a red 30 isn't proof yet. Five questions to ask of any before-and-after speed claim, and where to check each answer yourself. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/three-go-lives-not-one-big-launch https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/three-go-lives-not-one-big-launch Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Vitacom had no launch day. It had three: secure, simplify, accelerate. What went live in each phase, what we measured, and how to plan your own relaunch. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/smaller-server-faster-magento-store https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/smaller-server-faster-magento-store Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:05:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Vitacom went from 64 cores to 8 and from 15,814 ms to 12 ms. Why more hardware doesn't speed up a slow Magento page, and what to fix first. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/hyva-never-the-problem-what-we-pile-on-top https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/hyva-never-the-problem-what-we-pile-on-top Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides We closed our HIVE Germany 2026 pitch with this line. What Hyvä replaces, what it never touches, and what we found under Vitacom's Hyvä theme. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/meet-magento-germany-2026-the-day-after-the-win https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/meet-magento-germany-2026-the-day-after-the-win Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Events Hyvä The morning after our HIVE Germany 2026 win, we went back into the Pyramide Mainz for Meet Magento Germany. Patches, accessibility and three takeaways. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/liquidlab-wins-best-performance-improvement-hive-germany-2026 https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/liquidlab-wins-best-performance-improvement-hive-germany-2026 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:30:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus News Events The Vitacom rescue won Best Performance Improvement at HIVE Germany 2026, voted by the room in Mainz: from 15,814 ms to 12 ms on the same Hyvä stack. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-september-2026-patch-hotfix-monthly https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-september-2026-patch-hotfix-monthly Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Adobe shipped two Magento patches on 7 and 8 September 2026. Skip the monthly one and October's, which closes BlockStrap, has nothing to apply on. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/christmas-delivery-date-product-page https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/christmas-delivery-date-product-page Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Ordered 23 December at 13:00, it arrives on the 24th. At 15:00, on the 28th. The 2026 holidays, the rules behind the date and what to check by 1 December. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/black-friday-magento-checklist https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/black-friday-magento-checklist Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides eMAG holds Black Friday on 6 November, and the 30-day Omnibus window opened on 7 October. 9 checks for prices, cron, cache and checkout on Magento. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/php-8-2-end-of-life-magento https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/php-8-2-end-of-life-magento Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:34:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides PHP 8.2 gets its last security support on 31 December 2026. Magento 2.4.6 and 2.4.7 run on it. Check your versions and the first step to take. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/gdpr-magento-open-source-whats-missing https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/gdpr-magento-open-source-whats-missing Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:32:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Shoppers can ask for their data or its erasure, and you have one month. Magento Open Source has no button for it, and invoices stay 5 years. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/search-console-couldnt-fetch-googlebot-blocked https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/search-console-couldnt-fetch-googlebot-blocked Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Search Console shows “Couldn't fetch” but your sitemap loads on your laptop. A Cloudflare rule may be blocking Googlebot. Check it in 3 steps. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/pagespeed-score-or-real-users https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/pagespeed-score-or-real-users Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:30:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides PageSpeed Insights shows two numbers: a score from one test and 28 days of real-user data. What each one measures, and which one to trust for what. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/gpsr-omnibus-magento-romanian-stores https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/gpsr-omnibus-magento-romanian-stores Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Since 2022, a discount must start from the lowest price of the last 30 days. Since 2024, GPSR requires manufacturer data on the page. What Magento stores miss. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/six-step-shopping-trip-test https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/six-step-shopping-trip-test Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides How long does a shopper wait between clicks? Time 6 steps on your store. On Equitana: 19.5 s on Magento 1, 2.1 s on Magento 2 and Hyvä. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/still-on-magento-1-in-2026 https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/still-on-magento-1-in-2026 Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Hyvä Adobe stopped patching Magento 1 in June 2020. Equitana moved to Magento 2 and Hyvä in 5 days, and its main content on phones now loads in 1.1 s, not 4.2 s. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/gpec-summit-october-2026-what-mattered https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/gpec-summit-october-2026-what-mattered Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Events Guides LIQUIDLAB at GPeC SUMMIT, 13 October 2026: the massage chair, the board of store problems and 6 of the 30 eCommerce myths we brought, with numbers. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/hyva-checkout-for-romanian-stores https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/hyva-checkout-for-romanian-stores Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Hyvä Guides What Hyvä Checkout changes at the final step for a Romanian store: payments, Cargus pickup points, Innoship lockers, and what is not there yet. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/compare-hyva-accelerator-packages-8-questions https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/compare-hyva-accelerator-packages-8-questions Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Hyvä Guides Eight questions that separate one Hyvä accelerator package from another: scope, ownership, exit terms, performance guarantees, SLA, patching and track record. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-hyva-cost-subscription-one-off-or-build https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-hyva-cost-subscription-one-off-or-build Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Hyvä Guides A Magento store with Hyvä can be rented monthly, bought outright as an accelerator, or built from scratch. What each shape costs you over three years. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-b2b-closed-catalog-elasticsuite https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-b2b-closed-catalog-elasticsuite Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides How we built a gated B2B catalog with per-company pricing that stays compatible with ElasticSuite, on Magento Open Source, no Adobe Commerce required. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/how-long-does-a-hyva-project-take https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/how-long-does-a-hyva-project-take Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Hyvä Guides Hyvä’s published timelines for custom builds, from 6 weeks to 8 months, set against accelerator launches, and what actually stretches a project. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/hyva-accelerator-package-vs-custom-build https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/hyva-accelerator-package-vs-custom-build Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Hyvä Guides What a Hyvä accelerator package includes, who it fits and who it does not, and how it compares with a custom build on Hyvä’s published timelines. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/types-of-magento-provider-romania https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/types-of-magento-provider-romania Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides The five types of Magento provider in Romania, what each does well, where each breaks down, and how to tell a specialist from a generalist. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/choose-ecommerce-platform-romania https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/choose-ecommerce-platform-romania Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Choosing an ecommerce platform in Romania: the four realistic options, the local constraints that decide it, and the mistake that costs most. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/what-is-hyva-theme-magento https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/what-is-hyva-theme-magento Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Hyvä Guides What the Hyvä theme for Magento 2 is: what it replaces, why it is fast, what it costs since November 2025, and what it does not fix. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-without-maintenance-timeline https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-without-maintenance-timeline Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides A timeline of Magento decay without maintenance: the patch gap, the dependency wall, and the point an upgrade turns into a rewrite. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/what-you-should-own-magento-agency https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/what-you-should-own-magento-agency Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Lock-in is not a feeling, it is a list. The repository, credentials, pipeline and knowledge you must own before hiring a Magento agency. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-chatgpt-shopping-feed https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-chatgpt-shopping-feed Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides News OpenAI takes a product feed, not your schema markup. What ChatGPT shopping actually requires from a Magento store, and the order to do it in. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-b2b-hyva-what-breaks https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-b2b-hyva-what-breaks Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Hyvä Which Magento B2B features survive a Hyvä migration, which need rebuilding, and why B2B projects run three to four months rather than eight weeks. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-ai-code-ownership-advantage-2026 https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-ai-code-ownership-advantage-2026 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Why AI code assistants work measurably better on Magento than on closed SaaS platforms, and why the compounding advantage lives with code ownership. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/hyva-design-freedom-tailwind https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/hyva-design-freedom-tailwind Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:44:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Hyvä Guides A common Hyvä myth: every store ends up looking the same. Why Tailwind gives you total design freedom, and how branded Hyvä stores prove it. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/how-to-choose-magento-agency-romania https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/how-to-choose-magento-agency-romania Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:43:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Picking a Magento agency in Romania? The questions to ask, the red flags to walk away from, and how to check a performance claim before you sign. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-aeo-ai-search https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-aeo-ai-search Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:42:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Shoppers now ask ChatGPT and Google AI for recommendations. What makes a Magento store show up in AI answers: structured data, speed, and clear content. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-extensions-hyva-compatibility https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-extensions-hyva-compatibility Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:40:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Hyvä Guides Extensions are the number one Hyvä migration blocker. Which ones just work, which need a compatibility module, and which must be rebuilt. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-2-hyva-migration-guide https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-2-hyva-migration-guide Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:39:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Hyvä Guides How a live Magento store moves to Hyvä: the staging-first sequence, what breaks, how rankings are protected, and how long it really takes. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-2-4-9-upgrade https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-2-4-9-upgrade Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:17:15 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Magento 2.4.9 is the biggest architectural shift in years. Our honest advice: do not rush it. If you are on the latest 2.4.8 patch you do not need it yet. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-algolia-vs-elasticsuite https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-algolia-vs-elasticsuite Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:16:15 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Algolia or ElasticSuite for Magento? What each does best, what they cost, and why the strongest setup runs both: Algolia for search, ElasticSuite for the rest. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-romania-payments https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-romania-payments Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:15:15 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Taking local payments on Magento in Romania: euPlatesc, Netopia, PayU, Mollie and cash on delivery, plus the euPlatesc Hyvä Checkout module we built. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/woocommerce-to-magento-migration https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/woocommerce-to-magento-migration Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:14:15 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Outgrowing WooCommerce? The real signals it is time to move to Magento, the honest cost, and what a WooCommerce to Magento migration actually involves. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/hyva-vs-pwa-headless-magento https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/hyva-vs-pwa-headless-magento Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:13:15 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Hyvä Headless and PWA promise speed but cost you two teams and hidden overhead. Here is why Hyvä hits the same speed on one Magento stack, without the complexity. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-security-checklist-2026 https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-security-checklist-2026 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:12:15 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides The practical Magento security checklist for 2026: patching, admin hardening, backups, monitoring, and an incident plan every store owner should run. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-romania-e-factura-compliance https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-romania-e-factura-compliance Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:11:15 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides RO e-Factura is mandatory for Magento stores selling in Romania. What the SPV system requires, the deadlines, and how to make your store issue valid XML. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-core-web-vitals-90-plus https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-core-web-vitals-90-plus Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:10:15 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Core Web Vitals is a ranking factor and a conversion lever. How we get Magento stores past 90 on PageSpeed, the metrics that matter, and what keeps them there. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/hyva-checkout-worth-paying-for-2026 https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/hyva-checkout-worth-paying-for-2026 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:09:15 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Hyvä What Hyvä Checkout and Hyvä Enterprise cost in 2026, what each licence replaces, and the store size at which paying for them starts to make sense. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/adobe-commerce-vs-magento-open-source-2026 https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/adobe-commerce-vs-magento-open-source-2026 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:08:15 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source share a codebase, not a price tag. A 2026 breakdown of what the license actually buys, and who each one fits. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/inhouse-vs-agency-magento-maintenance https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/inhouse-vs-agency-magento-maintenance Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides In-house team or agency for Magento maintenance? The honest decision matrix: skills you need, when each model wins, and the hybrid most stores end up with. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-maintenance-cost-2026 https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-maintenance-cost-2026 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides What Magento maintenance really costs in 2026: the four cost drivers, honest market ranges, and the questions that expose a fake maintenance offer. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/stylesmuggler-magento-zero-day https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/stylesmuggler-magento-zero-day Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus News StyleSmuggler is an actively-exploited Magento zero-day hitting 2.4.7 to 2.4.9, no login needed. What it is, who is affected, and what to do right now. https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-maintenance-guide-2026 https://liquidlab.ro/en/blog/magento-maintenance-guide-2026 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Alexandru-Manuel Carabus Guides The complete Magento maintenance guide for 2026: what to do monthly, quarterly and annually, with the checklist that keeps stores patched, fast and online.