Magento has several configuration files – one of the most important local.xml, which contains all of your configuration details. Your database connection, caching connection details, where to store sessions – Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »