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add to the mini-cart left hand box in Magento

Feb 14th

Posted by Andy Bird in magento

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You need to tweak your theme to allow you to post a message in the mini-cart area (the bit that show “You have no items in your shopping cart”)

This is quite simple.
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Magento: Move Related Products to centre column in Modern theme

Aug 27th

Posted by Andy Bird in magento

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The modern theme made available by the good folks at Varian for their free e-commerce product Magento is a great template and a good starting point for anyone looking to customise magento for their own look and feel.  However, the default layout has the Related products block in the left hand menu which unless you have very long product descriptions can leave the page unbalanced.

These instructions will move the block to to the centre under the product descriptions.

You can see this at work here on a <a href=”http://www.cl-floraldesigns.co.uk”>wedding flowers</a> site.
In catalog.xml find

<reference name=“right”>
<block type=“catalog/product_list_related” name=“catalog.product.related” before=“-” template=“catalog/product/list/related.phtml”/>
</reference>

Remove or comment out

<block type=“catalog/product_list_related” name=“catalog.product.related” before=“-” template=“catalog/product/list/related.phtml”/>

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Upgrade all modules in magento from ssh

Mar 4th

Posted by Andy Bird in magento

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  1. ./pear upgrade-all
  2. rm -rf downloader/pearlib/cache/* downloader/pearlib/download/*

Remove side_logo_promo.gif from header in modern theme magento

Feb 13th

Posted by Andy Bird in magento

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in 

/app/design/frontend/default/modern/template/page/html/header.phtml

comment out 

 <!–    <img src=”<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl(‘images/side_logo_promo.gif’) ?>” alt=”" class=”side-logo-promo”/> –>

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Create a left hand navigation / verticle category in Magento

Feb 12th

Posted by Andy Bird in magento

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Using the modern theme to create a menu like http://www.cl-floraldesigns.co.uk 

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Change Payment method titles in magento

Feb 2nd

Posted by Andy Bird in magento

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Arghh this drove me nuts.. and who came along and fixed it??? My darling partner who is still reminding me of it.

The problem? How to change the terms

Paypal Standard and Check / Money Order

to

Credit Card or Paypal and  Cheque / Postal Order

I got into a dead end thinking this would be a translation problem.  I added the UK translation pack.. which was actually rather handy as it turned out but still could not change the wording.

After pratting about for hours  Lisa taps me on the shoulder and announces that she has done it… turns out you can call payment methods what ever you like just by changing the title in the Payment method admin section… grrr

Problem: remove Enhanced search extention from magento

Jan 22nd

Posted by Andy Bird in magento

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I installed enhanced search in a magneto install.  Something upset it.  2 copies were showing in system > config > advanced

Searched database but no ref to Hyteckit or similar 

removing from community code threw up errors. so..

locate all the crap

grep -R -B3 -A4 “Hyteckit_EnhancedSearch” *

remove crap

mv Hyteckit_EnhancedSearch.xml ~ <from app/etc/modules/Hyteckit_EnhancedSearch.xml

 mv Hyteckit ~ <from app/code/community

rebuild cache

search still not working in 1.2 :(

turned off enhanced search extension… turns out that in 1.2 it IS the search option… had best put it back on.

I still cant get the search engine to fine ‘red’!!!