Reinventing the wheel – what a cliche! Of course you don’t do it, at least not intentionally. And you hate being reminded of code reuse on those rare occasions when someone points to a function you wrote, which allegedly does the same as some other function somewhere in the framework. Yet it happens. Sometimes looking for blueprints for the wheel takes longer than hacking it out yourself. Sometimes you migh ...

It is surprising how many people don’t know about symbolic links and do not realize how useful they can be. For instance you are running a test server with multiple instances of out shop configured as separate installations. You can easily update the source code by pulling it from a common repository. But what if you need to update you media files, which normally are not under version control? And what if t ...

In this article I’ll give you a handy script to add a home link to the top menu. In magento 1.7, the menu is now created via an *event* (page_block_html_topmenu_gethtml_before) The catalog observer hooks into this and adds menu items as Varien_Data_Tree_Node objects. I have some samples here to show you how to add a link at the beginning of this menu. config.xml portion: Copy the code: <pre> <confi ...

We’re excited to announce that the newest version of Magento Enterprise Edition– version 1.13 – is now available. There are thousands of merchants doing many different and innovative things on Magento Enterprise - from revolutionizing how customers buy eyewear to building mobile salesforce automation applications for a global sales team. But there is one thing that Magento Enterprise merchants are ALL doing ...

The 29th tutorial for Magento Commerce Community Edition and the 6th on Theming Magento. This tutorial give a brief description of layout files. Further explanation to come soon! ...

1. To Enable Different Language For Your Magento Store goto System->Manage Stores. 2. Click on the “Create Store View”, Here you find four required fields as follows : Store ———-> Select Your Store Name ———> Fill Any Relevant Name (English) Code ———-> Fill Any Relevant Code (english) Status ———> Select Enable And Press Save. 3. Then Goto System->Configuration 4. Select your Store View From ...

Showing best selling products on your store’s home page is a great option especially if you are looking to promote best selling products even more. If you are looking to display best selling products on your home page you can do that by following simple ways: Show best selling products by creating best selling “attribute” and assign that attribute to the desired product. Query your database and find out act ...

It’s well known that, as far as e-commerce platforms go, Magento is one of the most search-engine friendly systems. To make an e-store more visible to potential buyers, there are many techniques within Magento that a website admin can implement to enhance his or her e-store ranking in search engine results. These techniques are usually referred to as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. Here is a se ...

If you want to display products on home page of your Magento Store with pagination, then this tutorial is for you. Follow these simple steps to add such functionality in your Magento Store: Go to CMS > Manage Pages and click on the “Home page”. Under the “Design” tab, insert the following code in the “Update Layout XML” field: <reference name="content"> <block type="catalog/product_list" name="p ...

If you are looking to customize your Magento store or theme, a majority of times you ought to do very specific tasks. I am listing few of them below. I hope you will love this series and will find out most common solutions to most common Magento tasks. 1. How to display category title only on sub category page in Magento Template? To display category title only on sub category page in Magento template go to ...