Magento – Change the layout if there are no products in the category collection
I recently had the requirement to change the layout in Magento for a category if it didn’t have any products in it. The issue came from using a two column Read More »
Author Archives: Douglas Radburn
How to make last name optional in Magento 1.9
I recently worked on a store where I needed to make the last name field optional at both checkout and account levels. I found a quick guide here: http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/13878/how-to-make-last-name-optional-in-magento-1-8 – Read More »
The quickest way to disable the wishlist in Magento
There are always features you might not want to use with Magento. Many themes will offer features in-built that you might need to remove, and instead of altering a template Read More »
Making the most of Christmas Email Marketing
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! or so many retailers are telling us at the moment at least! Even though it’s only November, it makes sense for retailers Read More »
Generating custom-named sitemaps in Magento
You’ve probably noticed that Magento has the ability to create XML Sitemaps from the admin interface. Whilst it gives you the option to specify a name, do so, and it Read More »
Customising Maintenance and Database Error pages with WordPress
Every time you update plugins on your site, WordPress generates a flag that puts your site into maintenance mode. It does this by creating a .maintenance file. Whilst functional (the Read More »
Associate Magento products to a specific store
Recently, I needed to associate a large number of products with a specific “store” in Magento. Rather than go through each product individually, I thought it might be quicker to Read More »
How to remove Shortlink in WordPress
WordPress 3 introduced a new feature – shortlink. Shortlink is a shorten version of a web page’s URL. This is where an SEO-friendly URL (that might have keywords in), is Read More »
Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner [eBook]
Modern web broswers are becoming the platform of choice online. Apps come and go, but websites seem to be the beginning, middle and end. To this end, it has become Read More »
Adding Breadcrumbs to Customer Account Pages using Magento
Breadcrumbs are a great way to navigate through any ecommerce site. Magento’s default theme has breadcrumbs (with microformats!) on product and category pages. This means that there is little work Read More »
Redirecting SSL pages to non SSL pages in Magento
Magento makes it easy to configure secure (SSL) pages for the frontend and backend of your website, however, it doesn’t currently cater for the redirection of https versions of your Read More »
Using a cron to set catalog price rules
Sometimes you might want to update your catalog price rules at different times of the day, to make sure they’re applied. So, lets look at a script we can schedule Read More »