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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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Add a Static Block to a Magento Template Page

Posted on: 22nd Sep 2010 2 Comments
Add a Static Block to a Magento Template Page

Hi all – just a quick post from me on the Magento blog today, so I thought I’d at least post something helpful! Sometimes the need arises to have static block content in your template files rather than your actual content managed areas and the usual block method (below) won’t work. {{block type=”cms/block” block_id=”change_me”}} In [...]

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Book Review: WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook

Posted on: 16th Sep 2010 3 Comments
Book Review: WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook

Now, don’t get me wrong – I love Magento as much as the next person, but I have a special place in my heart for WordPress. It was my first love, and, lets face it – it’s pretty much securely (and deservedly) the number one cms and blogging platform for a reason! So, when my [...]

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Sagepay Server Change, Protx and Magento

Posted on: 2nd Sep 2010 No Comments
Sagepay Server Change, Protx and Magento

Occasionally, the folks at Varien are just a step behind the folks at places like Sagepay. When this happens, clients tend to get a little stressed – especially when they receive emails saying that servers are being changed and so their payment method needs to be updated. But don’t worry – the folks at the [...]

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