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Install Magento and setup MySQL via SSH

Posted on: 8th Apr 2011 By: Ben McManus 2 Comments
Install Magento and setup MySQL via SSH

It’s a lovely day here at E-commerce web design HQ, To spread the love here are a few shell commands to speed up your Magento installation and to set up your database. To login to your server open up terminal on Mac/Unix (PuTTy/SSH Client/Cygwin if your a PC) and use the following command. Type in [...]

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Mass Product Relater Extension

Posted on: 20th Jan 2011 By: Adam Moss 2 Comments
Mass Product Relater Extension

Just a quick blog post today to recommend the mass product relater extension developed by WDCA. When I first installed it, I thought I had accidentally installed the Advanced Product Grid view extension which is very similar in appearance (and functionality). However on closer look this is actually much more useful… Download the plugin from [...]

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Magento Sage Pay Integration

Posted on: 20th Oct 2010 By: Adam Moss 4 Comments
Magento Sage Pay Integration

Sage Pay is without doubt one of the most reliable payment processing providers available on the Internet. Sage Pay is unlike Paypal, who’s unique selling point is to take away the need to enter credit card details on websites, instead favouring a simple username & password combination. Sage Pay sticks to the traditional ‘Enter your [...]

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Scheduled Magento Database Backups

Posted on: 21st Sep 2010 By: Robert Kent No Comments
Scheduled Magento Database Backups

It is imperitive to keep backing up your magenot database – and I’ll tell you why. Almost everything on a magento website uses the database. If you create a category – thats in the database. If you delete a category – it’s then gone. To combat this what we tend to do is try to [...]

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Up-sells, Cross-sells & Related Products

Posted on: 7th Jun 2010 By: Adam Moss 1 Comment
Up-sells, Cross-sells & Related Products

A key feature in Magento in terms of effective marketing, is to make use of up-sells, cross-sells and related products – in the same way that a high street shop would use POS around certain products to make a customer spend more on items they should also consider. Let’s say for example that you own [...]

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