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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Posted on: 24th Jun 2011
By: Robert Kent
Hi there folks, filling in for Ben McManus today and funnily enough I’ve drafted in some help of my own from a certain James Kemp. James has been looking into some dynamic import methods for Magento, most notably customer import. The code below is a combination of several methods, tweaked to the max by JK [...]
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Posted on: 10th Jun 2011
By: Ben McManus
Here is a quick post about removing all of your products from your Magento installation. Select All and Delete is pretty pants when it comes to removing all of your products, especially if you have over +400 products. PHP max execution time usually would have passed. Open up your MySQL editor, select your Magento database [...]
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Posted on: 8th Jun 2011
By: Robert Kent
This post is in addition to an earlier post by Adam – Magento XML Sitemap This post will follow on and optimise the Magento sitemap even further. What Adam provided was the removal of the duplicate “home” listing. In this section we will look at removing the unwanted tags “lastmod” and “changefreq” from our sitemap. [...]
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Posted on: 7th Jun 2011
By: Adam Moss
It’s been a big week in Magento with Ebay finally acquiring the ecommerce giant. I for one look forward to the potential that this acquisition could trigger, but that’s for another post on another day. Creating modules is a huge part of being a Magento developer, as pretty much everything that you do to extend [...]
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