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Using Media Image Product Attributes

Posted on: 12th Sep 2011 By: Adam Moss 7 Comments
Using Media Image Product Attributes

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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Add Magento Attributes From Spreadsheet (CSV)

Posted on: 30th Aug 2011 By: Robert Kent 3 Comments
Add Magento Attributes From Spreadsheet (CSV)

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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View All Orders – Date Range

Posted on: 23rd Aug 2011 By: Robert Kent 2 Comments
View All Orders – Date Range

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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Essential Magento developer tools

Posted on: 8th Jul 2011 By: Ben McManus 5 Comments
Essential Magento developer tools

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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Install MAMP and setup Magento

Posted on: 1st Jul 2011 By: Ben McManus 3 Comments
Install MAMP and setup Magento

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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