May, 2011

Posts Tagged ‘Magento’

Using Magento Widgets (Part 1)

Posted on: 3rd May 2011 By: Robert Kent 10 Comments
Using Magento Widgets (Part 1)

There is one feature within Magento that has been severely overlooked ever since it was incorporated into the architecture in version 1.4(?). That is the Widgets functionality. Today I’m going to show you how you can create a simply widget that you can display on a specific product page – without the need for any [...]

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Magento captcha with recaptcha

Posted on: 28th Apr 2011 By: Ben McManus No Comments
Magento captcha with recaptcha

The recaptcha plugin provided by Google is currently used about 30 million times a day to prevent form auto/robot submission, which isn’t bad going. In this post I will show you how to make your e-commerce store give Google few more thousand captcha challenges a day! To generate recaptcha into your form were going to [...]

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Install Fancybox for Magento

Posted on: 15th Apr 2011 By: Ben McManus 5 Comments
Install Fancybox for Magento

Fancybox, the Lightbox alternative, is the king of the floating content world. With slick shadows and the ability to display pretty much anything you can embed into a HTML document, it reigns supreme. If you want to hack up the main templates and are available for a first class ticket to copy and paste hell, [...]

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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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Magento Subcategories with Direct Children

Posted on: 25th Mar 2011 By: Ben McManus No Comments
Magento Subcategories with Direct Children

Here is a quick method to get the direct child categories of a category in your Magento store, instead of everything and anything below the category! This comes in handy when you want to create a sweet sub category page or navigation block. The above code snippet loads in the current category and prints out [...]

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