When using flat rate shipping options for Google Checkout, you can include a free delivery option. However, when you click through to Google Checkout, the free option is missing. Google Checkout seems to see this option and discard it. Or …

Magento provides facilities to get the Image URL from a category by using the catalog/category model. echo Mage::getModel(’catalog/category’)->load($catId)->getImageUrl(); However, by default, it doesn’t provide the facility to get the thumbnail category image. You’d expect to be able to use getThumbnailUrl(), …

I did an apt-get upgrade from one version of Debian to another – I think it was etch to lenny. Upon restarting the box, mysql wouldn’t respond. hq-lnx-001:~# /etc/init.d/mysql start Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. Checking for corrupt, not cleanly …

Many websites show a “total number of items in your basket”. So, how do you get that information out of Magento if you’re not in the checkout process? You can simply call the Mage Helper file checkout/cart. If all you’re …

This is the third Think Visibility I’ve attended (much thanks to Branded3 for forking out for the ticket!) I’ve really enjoyed the previous conferences and this one was no exception. Whilst I’m not an SEO, I have a keen interest …

I was setting up SSL on our local Debian box at work, and needed to generate a new cert. apache2-ssl-certificate failed to work though, so what have they done with it? Well, they’ve moved it. If you’re setting up SSL …

I had the need recently to find a cron job on a server. I was logged in as root, but I didn’t know who the cron job was set up as. You can get a list of all users who …

I was having issues with a site recently whereby the jQuery UI Tabs that were on the site weren’t working in IE. After chopping out all other includes and HTML/CSS that wasn’t needed for the tabs to display, I narrowed …

I was reading about the impending release of WordPress 3.2 and the fact that it will only be supporting PHP 5.2 and above. This also sparked discussion at http://yoast.com/requires-php-52/ regarding Yoast’s plugins now requiring PHP 5.2 (it has a check …

WordPress MU, or just WordPress now as of v3, supports “networks” of sites. Once you set up the main site, you can install other sites into folders, or on to subdomains of the main domain. There is a lot of …