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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Posted on: 22nd Mar 2011
By: Robert Kent
If you are suffering from high file sizes in your Magento installation it could be that the server you are hosting on does not have Gzip compression on by default. Gzip compression is almost essential for every Magento store due to the high number of javascript files. It is quite common for the combined javascript [...]
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Posted on: 14th Mar 2011
By: Luci Smethurst
Sometimes, what Magento offers you out of the box is just not good enough and we have to rely on ourselves to come up with a way to make it better, or work to fit our needs. Today’s post on the Magento blog has another little tip for getting Magento to do what you want, [...]
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Posted on: 11th Mar 2011
By: Ben McManus
You may be thinking, how hard is copy and pasting CMS content from one Magento install to another? Truth is, it isn’t, but it’s a ball ache! To avoid this copy and paste hell were going to dive into your database and copy some tables. Open your favourite database administrator, Navicat, Sequel Pro, MySQL Administrator [...]
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