Category: Magento
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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, […]
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MAGENTO SHARED HOSTING
Dx3webs has one purpose: To provide the best possible hosting environment for your Mageneto store. To allow your business to thrive in the online market place. To this end we have built a wide range of Magento specific Enterprise grade hosting environments for businesses of all sizes. We focus on three areas. Speed: Security: Support […]
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MAGENTO VPS HOSTING
Many of our clients have been asking for a hosting environment that offers the same speed and reliability of our shared hosting but with greater flexibility. After running endless benchmarks and tests we have create a new Magento specific VPS environment built on top of Parallels Virtuozzo Virtual Private Server technology. So now you can […]