Magento – A go-live checklist
Whilst there are many tasks you need to undertake during the development of a new Magento site, there are also a lot of steps you need to go through when Read More »
Category Archives: Magento
Image management for Magento1
From time to time, you might want to remove all the images that are associated with a Magento product. This might be for any number of reasons, but starting from Read More »
How Magento2 implements Plugins
I recently wrote a post about Aspect Oriented Programming, and how developers can use it within Magento 2. However, I didn’t cover anything about what Magento 2 is actually doing Read More »
Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) – Plugins with Magento2
A little about AOP Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm that tries to increase modularity of code. It does this by allowing the separation of “cross-cutting” concerns. This Read More »
MageTitansMCR 2016
As another MageTitans ends, I’ve come away super charged as I always do from these events. I always try to make sure that I’m surrounded by intellegent people, and these Read More »
Setting up a Magento Users Group – Why finding like-minded people is so important
At MageTitans Mini this past May, I did an impromptu talk entitled “Setting up a Magento User Group”. Whilst most of that was me trying to remember why I’d even Read More »
Dealing with large collections in Magento
Large collections are inevitable. If your Magento store has been running for more than a minute, you’ll have orders. You might have hundreds of orders. Thousands of orders. Hundreds of Read More »
#MageTitans 2015 – Magento conference
This Saturday (7th November) I headed to Manchester for MageTitans 2. For anyone not in the know, MageTitans was an extremely successful Maegnto conference organised by Manchester Digital last year. Read More »
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 »
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 »