Author Archives: Douglas Radburn

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 »

External Magento scripts – how to load Magento

I’ve added a few scripts on my blog, and also over at Branded3 Labs previously, but I’ve not noted how I load them currently. I’ve dabbled with adding scripts to Read More »

Magento behind an SSL terminated load balancer

If you’re using a load balancer infront of your web servers and providing a Magento site, you might notice that you have issues if your SSL terminates on the load Read More »

A 404 Manager for Magento

When you launch a new website, or you update an existing one, staying one step ahead of Google is always an advantage. One issue you might have is an increased Read More »

Redirecting a user after user registration in Magento

You might be looking to redirect a customer to another URL rather than either the shop homepage or the customer account page. In order to do this, you can set Read More »

Remove button text from input in ie7

Came across something that stumped me a little today – for some reason, IE7 wasn’t hiding the text on a submit button when I thought it should be. I was Read More »

A look into Magento 2

Magento 2 is the future of the Magento platform. It will sit on PHP 5.3 and is being built with version 1 of Zend Framework – as Magento 1. Word Read More »

Magento Product Collection

Many a time I have seen code where coders are doing all the product manipulation and work within PHP and not letting Magento do the work. Now, there is a Read More »

Adding a category attribute to Magento

Not sure why it took so long to figure out, but adding a YES/NO attribute to categories actually turned out to be pretty easy. I wanted a quick way to Read More »

A WordPress Twitter stream, without the RSS…

Recently, Twitter made some changes and dropped support for RSS (as well as imposing plenty of other measures and limitations along the way). You can read about it here – Read More »