This December, I have been working on magento onepage checkout customization for a client. They want to remove from shipping address step and shipping method as per their strategy. Magento onepage checkout consists of six steps – Checkout method – Billing Infomation – Shipping Information – Shipping Method – Payment ...
Read More »How to Create Categories in the Magento Admin (part 1)
This article will guide you how to create a new category in the Magento Admin. Selecting a Store The first thing to do is select the store where you would like to add the category from the Choose Store View dropdown menu. The default is for all stores managed by ...
Read More »5 Easy magento performances tips for Admin panel
Magento appears to be so slow now that the Magento team has to make great effort to help store owners and hosting providers improve the overall performance of the Magento shopping cart application. Below I would rather share you 5 performances that you can simply carry out with no need ...
Read More »Monitor your Magento Store with MageSpeedTest.com
Basically it’s the same simple Magento performance test you know and love, run every 6, 12 or 24 hours. If the results of the regular tests differ by more than your preset tolerance, you get an email warning you – simple. Magento Monitoring is free? Yes, that’s right. Paid up premium subscribers ...
Read More »How to manage your customers in Magento
This post will show you one of the important functions in Magento, it is Customer management, including: create a new account, manage customer details and manage customer groups. New customers can sign up for your online store through the main page ->My account section. They should click on the [Create ...
Read More »An other function of Composer with Magento
As far as we concerned, Composer is really useful at re-implementing code in PHP application or frame work. But now I want to consider it as a better package and dependency management system for Magento extensions. The post will take you some minutes to read all but do not quit ...
Read More »Magento delete empty categories and sub-categories
Remove all empty categories and sub-categories in Magento. When there are empty categories, the website shows empty page in those categories in frontend. Create a file in the magento root, I will name it rmvEmptyCats.php, with following code: require “app/Mage.php”; umask(0); Mage::app(); $categoryCollection = Mage::getModel(‘catalog/category’)->getCollection() ->addFieldToFilter(‘level’, array(‘gteq’ => 2)); //greater than root category id foreach($categoryCollection as $category) { if ($category->getProductCount() === 0) { $category->delete(); } } ...
Read More »How to upload File and Link in CMS Page
Sometimes the editor in magento or any other cms can be confusing and it is not obvious how to do a simple task. This short Guide is how to upload a file and link it within a cms page. Follow the steps listed here and refer to the image for ...
Read More »Magento Infographic, Evolution, and Worldwide Magento Usage
Magento is a flexible and scalable eCommerce solution with an open-source platform that allows companies to easily customize their online stores to their liking. Including the world’s most popular brands, there are over 150,000 businesses using this fast growing solution to help their company succeed. With this cost effective platform, ...
Read More »Useful guides for email templates and Magento website
Studies show that more than half of emails were opened on a mobile device in the first half of 2013 and eMarketer predicts that eCommerce sales from tablets and mobile devices will reach almost 25% by 2017. However, seven out of ten recipients will delete an email if it doesn’t ...
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