Posted on: 3rd May 2011
By: Robert Kent
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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Posted on: 28th Apr 2011
By: Ben McManus
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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Posted on: 15th Apr 2011
By: Ben McManus
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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Posted on: 8th Apr 2011
By: Ben McManus
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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Posted on: 25th Mar 2011
By: Ben McManus
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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