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Magento for Beginners: Why Deleting Code is Bad

Posted on: 25th Jan 2011 1 Comment
Magento for Beginners: Why Deleting Code is Bad

One of the great things about doing Magento ecommerce sites quite often is that, soon enough, you learn that you’re doing things wrong, going about things the wrong way, or just plain making things hard for yourself. Today’s post is more about the latter, and is aimed particularly at beginners who are just getting to [...]

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Display Category Name in Sidebar & on Product Pages

Posted on: 29th Oct 2010 1 Comment
Display Category Name in Sidebar & on Product Pages

A couple of simple code snippets for you this week on the Magento Blog. Something that’s come up recently is needing to display the category of a product on either the product page, or in the sidebar (for example above the subcategories). To add the current category name to the sidebar, use the following: <?php [...]

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Optimise your Magento Links: The Definitive Guide

Posted on: 13th Oct 2010 2 Comments
Optimise your Magento Links: The Definitive Guide

Welcome to the definitive guide to optimising links on your Magento site – this post is an improvement on by my earlier post (“Making Links Local in Magento”) and Adam’s earlier post (“Optimise Magento CSS & JavaScript Links”). This post is going to quickly sum up the previous posts and address this issue of https:// [...]

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Change and/or Reorder the Magento Top Links

Posted on: 6th Oct 2010 1 Comment
Change and/or Reorder the Magento Top Links

If you need to rearrange the topLinks in your latest magento site, don’t panic! You can reorder them quickly and easily through the XML file as needed – you can also remove (or add) links here as you need to. To Reorder Top Links Locate your customer.xml file – the tags you are looking for [...]

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Magento Template Customisation (XML)

Posted on: 29th Sep 2010 No Comments
Magento Template Customisation (XML)

Today I thought I’d troubleshoot a problem I had. Over the past few days at ecommerce web design, I needed some bespoke Magento template customisation. I needed to set a custom design for one of my categories and then for each of the products individually therein. Now, my first thought was the obvious: set the [...]

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