Introducing MageSmith — A Free Hosted Magento 2 Developer Toolkit

After years of running MagePsycho, the same loop kept repeating in my workflow: every new Magento 2 project meant re-opening the same dozen browser tabs, re-running the same scaffolding scripts, and re-typing the same bin/magento commands. Different clients, different stores, different problems — but the supporting cast of tools never changed, and most of them lived in scattered gists, half-finished local CLIs, or “I’ll automate this someday” backlog tickets. So I built MageSmith — a …

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Fix Region/State Dropdown not Loading on New Account Creation Page

By default, Magento doesn’t display any address fields on the new account creation (/customer/account/create) page. But if you ever want to, it’s just a piece of cake. You simply have to set the flag show.address.fields to true in the layout XML file (customer_account_create.xml): With the above XML update, followed by cache refresh, you may see …

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