Archive for September, 2010

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5 Extremely useful free Magento Extensions

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Magento is great out of the box but… there are always things that it does not quite do. This is where the vibrant community of extension builders comes in. There is fantastic, growing number of extensions in the Magento Connect collection and many of the most useful are free. That is not to say that a commercial extension will not be what you are looking for but free is good.

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Magento error: Invalid method Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List_Toolbar::isLastPage

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This is an interesting bug that seems to affect some custom templates that have not been fully adapted to 4.1x. This causes some categories with a set number of products to throw the following error:

Invalid method Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List_Toolbar::isLastPage(Array
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Trace:
#0 [internal function]: Varien_Object->__call(\'isLastPage\', Array)


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Alter Free Branford Magazine theme to use WordPress Thumbnail instead of timthumbs

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The free version of the Branford Magazine theme is no longer offered or supported by the author. However, it is a very useful theme for those who want a Magazine style layout without spending money on a Premium theme. A few people, including one of our hosted WordPress clients, were having problems with the timthumbs automatic image resizing that comes with this theme and a few others eg Arthemia / Mimbo. Rather than spend time looking into the problem we suggested updating the theme to take advantage of WordPress’ own internal thumbnail generation tools.
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10 Open Source e-commerce solutions reviewed

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You can of course spend tens of thousands of pounds on a e-commerce platform. Perhaps you will get your investment back and perhaps it will offer a few features that no one else has. However, open source solutions are fast in development and anyone who wants to help out can.  Before spending a penny on a commercial solution you should take a long hard look at the free alternative.  Web distortion have reviewed 10 of the most active and promising e-commerce platforms.

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Smashing Magazine releases free Magento theme

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Smashing Magazine has been an excellent source of design inspiration, advice and guidance for years. Occasionally they release free content and this time that content is a new theme for Magento.

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