This part of the Magento tutorial will provide detailed information regarding the Magento's default files and folders structure. You will learn more about the functions of main files and folders included in the Magento package. The files and folders included in the main directory are as follows: • .htaccess - contains mod_rewrite rules, which are essential for the Search Engine Friendly URLs. There you can ...

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 ...

On Magento category-pages you can select how to view the available products: By price, name or relevance, and ascending or descending. Within the Magento backend, the default ordering (price, name or relevance) can be configured but strangely enough the default direction (ascending or descending) not. Here is a XML layout update that allows you to do this anyway. What is a XML layout update? XML-layouts are ...

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 5th on Theming Magento. This tutorial shows you how to use Magento's developer debug options to find the right template files. ...

In the previous tutorial, we've learnt how to fix 5 most common Magento problems. Today we continue with last five problems. 6. How to disable the Compare products functionality You can disable the Compare products functionality in Magento by following these steps: Edit app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Helper/Product/Compare.php and change the following code:  public function getAddUrl($product) { return $this- ...

The 27th tutorial for Magento Commerce Community Edition and the 3rd on Theming Magento. This tutorial shows you how to create your own theme. ...

We will show you in this tutorial how to add attributes to your Magento store in a few simple steps. The first step is to login to the administrator back-end of the store: http://yourdomain.com/index.php/admin If you have installed Magento under a subfolder of the www root folder for an example “store” you should add this directory name before the index.php. Once  the back-end is completely rendered navigat ...

Although it is fairly simple to do, many Magento users offer encounter difficulties when attempting to use the import functionality built in to Magento. We see a fair number of inquiries about this here at the Magento Enterprise Support Desk, so we’ve decided to write a little tutorial to help you better understand and use Magento’s Import Profile. First, let’s take a look at how to create an import file, w ...

Since we all know that Magento Professional Edition will be discontinued later this year. Merchants using Magento PEwill definitely not like to downgrade to Community Edition as they’ll not get advanced features in it. The only solution to PE merchants is either to continue with Professional Edition with no future upgrades or upgrade to Enterprise Edition. [caption id="attachment_1151" align="aligncenter" w ...