Author: dx3
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HOW TO EDIT YOUR SHIPPING SETTINGS ON MAGENTO
Magento offers you the ability to configure your shipping settings from the backend of your website, which will mean you can provide customers with a range of methods and costs during checkout. It is possible to link in major couriers meaning you can print the labels straight away and send it off, Magento has links […]
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HOW TO CREATE STORE EMAIL ADDRESSES IN MAGENTO
Magento offers the ability to create store email addresses for your website. This will offer a more professional look when emailing customers and you can personalize the name of these to what you wish. You can allocate specific emails for General Contact, Customer Support and Sales. These emails are also used to send error reports […]
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HOW TO CREATE TAGS ON MAGENTO
Tags can be used by customers to find a selection of products on your site. The tag describes a certain aspect of the product, such as; Red Electronic Gift Popular tags make it easier for customers to find a product of a specific type without hunting through the website, which is more likely to make […]
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HOW TO CREATE A POLL IN MAGENTO
Although polls are often the 1st thing that are turned off when creating your site they do have their place. Magento has integrated polls from an early date and there is a management interface to allow you to create new questions and answers. Used correctly you can collect insights / opinions / trends from your […]
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MAGENTO CHECKOUT UPDATE CART NO LONGER WORKING AFTER 1.8.1.0 UPGRADE
If you find that your custom theme no longer allows the Update Cart button to work after an upgrade to 1.8x then you need to make some alterations to you cart.phtml file. Add <?php echo $this->getBlockHtml(‘formkey’); ?> After your <form action=”<?php echo $this->getUrl(‘checkout/cart/updatePost’) ?>” method=”post”> You may also need to do the same for your checkout […]
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CRON JOB NOT WORKING SINCE UPDATE TO MAGENTO 1.8
If you suddenly find that your magento cron is no longer working there is a chance that you need to add the following to your cron call. -mdefault 1 eg php /path/to/magento/cron.php -mdefault 1
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INSTALLING COMMERCIAL THEMES IN MAGENTO
One of the benefits of Magento is the huge industry of Extensions and Templates that has grown up over the last couple of years. There are thousands of well produced, beautiful and cleanly coded Templates. There are also some that are not. However, if you pruchase from some of the moderated Template providers eg Theme Forest and […]
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MAJOR ISSUES WITH PAYPAL PRO HOSTED
A few of our clients are using PayPal Pro Hosted as a way to collect and process credit cards on their Magento sites. Fortunately, it is the least used of the Paypal options built into Magento by default. We have been helping a few clients track down an issue whereby a number of customers were unable […]
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FIX ISSUE WITH WEBSERVICEX FOR IMPORTING MAGENTO CURRENCY RATES.
UPDATE: a more useful replacement for currency translation can be found here: https://blog.philwinkle.com/webservicex-is-down-i-have-a-fix/ ORIGINAL POST: I thought this issue was worth raising as it is affecting a lot of stores selling in multiple currencies. The problem is that the WebserviceX service is failing more often than it works meaning that many stores have out dated currency […]
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HIPHOP.. THE FUTURE OF MAGENTO (AND PHP IN GENERAL) IS (ALMOST) HERE
HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine) is a Facebook invention that solved a major issue at Facebook that is, how to get a system written in PHP and continuously developed in PHP, to run in a manner that would accommodate 1 billion + users. PHP is great for rapid development however, as any Magento store owner knows, […]