The Hurdles of Magento Migration from 1 to 2

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THE HURDLES OF MAGENTO MIGRATION FROM 1 TO 2
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Theres always some kind of trouble whenever a
change happens, and migration from Magento 1 to 2
is indeed a colossal change hence, some petty
issues are bound to rise.  Magento 1 to Magento
2 migration is quite painstaking but is worth and
now necessary since Magneto 1 has no more than
six months left to survive. After that, the
support for Magento 1 will vanish forever. Hence,
in order to keep your eCommerce website, live and
running, migration has become mandatory.
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As said before, change happens with some hurdles
and yes, Magento 2, although packed with full of
goodies for your site, there are some challenges
you have to face while and after shifting to it
which today, we are going to discuss it with you.
After all, you have to move four distinct Magento
component groups, i.e. store data, third-party
extensions and custom code, themes, and
customizations to complete your Magento migration
from 1 to 2. So, lets understand what those
challenges are.
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COMMON ISSUES FACED DURING MAGENTO 2 MIGRATION
1. Data migration issue

• Magento data migration is a tough nut to crack.
  Therere customer accounts, product info, orders
  data, promotions, store config, and so much more
  that nothing should go wrong while migrating
  them. Magento Data Migration Tool does help a lot
  but doesnt support all possible migration
  routes, and neither does migrate third-party
  extensions. Also, there are three things that you
  will need to migrate manually
• Media
• Storefront design
• Access Control Lists (ACLs)

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2. Extensions and custom code challenges
Yes, Code Migration Toolkit has been designed for
migrating extensions and custom code without any
hiccups, but there are certain limitations. You
may be required to recreate some of your Magento
1 extensions and themes to preserve the full
functionality of the store on Magento 2.
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3. Magento theme and customization
difficulties
The themes of your Magento 1 store will obviously
be non-compatible with Magento 2 hence, you will
either have to find a premade theme of M2 that
replicates your old theme or code your own
Magento 2 theme just as you need which will be
quite expensive and time-consuming.
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COMMON ISSUES FACED AFTER MAGENTO 2 MIGRATION
1. Performance pressure
After migration, some ups and downs in
performance are quite natural. Nothing works
perfectly, after all. You are sure to bump into
errors on the road such as low store performance,
insufficient speed in Magento 2 Admin areas,
unacceptable search speed, unoptimized cache
configuration, inefficient database setups, poor
cron schedules, low store reliability, etc. But,
stay put as theres always a solution to a
problem. Simply allow your migrating partner to
take care of it.
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2. Security concerns
You may wonder how security will be a concern in
Magento 2 well, the default setup of M2 doesnt
offer the best level of protection. You have to
configure your brand new Magento store to prevent
leaks of customer and order details, CC and
payment account details as well as other threats
like store defacing, malicious redirects,
compromised store admin accounts, etc. To stay
safe, follow security practices like regular
updates, security audits, and other necessary
things to keep your store in order.
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3. SEO troubles

• During the Magento 2 migration, the rewrite
  functionality creates URLs for categories while
  saving them. Therefore, when you enter a category
  from your Magento 1 website, Magento 2 will
  generate a URL as if it were a new category, this
  results in countless duplicate URLs in a Magento
  site, which will create following SEO troubles.
• loss of PageRank due to the redesign and changing
  URLs,
• lack of redirects that point from old to new
  pages,
• duplicate content due to inadequate robots.txt
  screening (filters, sorting, categories, etc.),
• localization and multi-store SEO issues.
• As soon as your migration is complete focus on
  SEO and rebuild as fast as possible to recover
  the damage.

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4. Volume check warnings
Post-migration while transferring the data
updates to your new Magento 2 website, you may
receive volume check warnings while testing your
Magento 2 website. It happens because Magento 2
creates entities that do not exist in Magento 1.
You may just press ctrl c, which will stop the
data updates or run the Data Migration Tool in
delta mode to transfer incremental changes.
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5. Glitches in editing/updating categories and
store re-indexing
Magento migration from 1 to 2 may make you unable
to update categories or products in the backend.
It is because Magento 2 database still has a
media_gallery attribute which was removed from
M2 core files. Dont worry as all you need is a
SQL command to fix this. Also, note that
migration will make some of your indexers
invalid. Go to your command-line interface and
run the following code php bin/magento
indexerreindex to re-index your store.
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There may arise various major and minor
challenges other than the above ones on your new
Magento store but, whatever it is, dont forget
to test your new site as many times as possible
before going live. Make sure all of your Magento
1 features have been successfully migrated into
your Magento 2 site, your shopping cart,
checkout, and payment methods work, your shipping
setups are alive, like that, every nook and
corner of your site are tested. Never be in a
notion that its just shifting from the old place
to a new one so your website will be as
successful as before. Test, test, test and make
sure.
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WRAPPING UP
Migration is a tremendous task, and it may take
months as per your store size. Remember to stay
patient and take your time as even a single
mistake while rushing things could mess up your
whole website. It is advisable to approach
certified Magento developers who will make your
Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration easier and much
more valid.
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