Shopware's sw_extends builds a correct template chain — so why does only one plugin's administration_templates block appear? A deep dive into ExtendsTokenParser, TemplateFinder, and the aggregation fix.
A practical guide to organizing your Shopware 6 theme plugin for long-term maintainability - covering SCSS architecture, JavaScript plugin patterns, Twig override strategy, and clean integration with feature plugins.
Before Shopware 6.6, there was no way to set a default CMS layout for product detail pages. Every new product defaulted to Shopware's built-in layout. This is how to fix it with a single theme subscriber.
Shopware's DI is constructor-based and the service locator is an anti-pattern — except in one specific place: dynamic repository access from a Twig extension. Here's why, and how to build it correctly.
Raw SQL feels familiar. The DAL looks like overhead. But writing to entity tables via DBAL skips lifecycle events, breaks plugin consistency, and turns UUID handling into a manual tax on every query. Here is where each one belongs.