Posted on: 12th Sep 2011
By: Adam Moss
This is perhaps a bit of a hidden gem with Magento, because it can be extremely useful when needed. Here’s a scenario: your client wants an image on their product page which is detached from the main image gallery. A solution may be a text field or dropdown attribute, which can be used to enter [...]
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Posted on: 30th Aug 2011
By: Robert Kent
Have you ever wondered how to add Magento Attribute Options to an Attribute in Magento via a spreadsheet or csv file? Well I have - and here’s a little php snippet that I created for you to do it. Be careful – this code is a little rough around the edges but it should give [...]
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Posted on: 23rd Aug 2011
By: Robert Kent
Here’s a nice little function that you may want to use to view your orders from a certain date range. In my example I’m going to show you how to view your orders from last month (i.e the first of last month to the last second of that month) and also Year-To-Date. First of all [...]
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Posted on: 8th Jul 2011
By: Ben McManus
With the Magento Fox on the bookmark rampage I thought I would join in with my favorite developer tools/extensions. Browser development/testing Firebug + YSlow This priceless tool packs it all, element/script editing, logging, connections and it’s own plugins! The Yahoo extension YSlow analyses your DOM and gives it a page load rating a must for [...]
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Posted on: 1st Jul 2011
By: Ben McManus
This blog is a request from the comments, so here we go. Install MAMP and setup Magento First off you will need to download the latest versions of MAMP and Magento. Unzip the archive and follow the instructions to install MAMP. For Magento to work correctly we need to create a domain and virtual host [...]
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