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Magento Product Attribute to Disable a Payment Method
In this short tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a new attribute called “card only” that will remove a specific “free” payment method whenever a […]
Magento Training Videos Page Launched
We at Creare have finally launched our page of Magento Training Videos. You can now find all the YouTube-hosted videos on our new page which allows you to […]
Category SEO Heading Extension for Magento
I while ago I developed a quick-fire Magento extension to solve a very simple problem. When you name your categories, those category names are used in the navigation […]
Aheadworks Gamification Extension Review
Thanks to a little post about Gamification in eCommerce I did a while back, Aheadworks got in touch and asked me to have a look at their newest […]
Render Template Blocks in Custom WYSIWYG
When developing admin models that have CMS capabilities, it’s likely that you’ll want to use Magento’s WYSIWYG editor in a similar manner to static blocks and CMS pages. […]
A/B Split Testing Magento with Google Analytics (CRO)
There are a number of different ways to split-test websites and webpages to see which design or layout converts better. It’s all about CRO – a bit of […]
Local Magento with MAMP – Unable to login to admin
I’ve probably already blogged about this but I’m sticking it on the new site so I don’t forget where I put it… There’s a little bug with MAMP […]
Using Varien_File_Csv with Magento
The Varien library that runs alongside Zend is full of useful classes which are used throughout Magento. One of which is Varien_File_Csv which is created specifically for reading […]
There are a number of session problems in Magento – just look around the web and you’ll see examples of people having trouble with cookie lifetimes, folder/file permissions […]
Show Magento Related Products Regardless
A quick micro-blog today about something which came up for the first time today – how to make related products show up regardless of whether you have them […]
Gamification in eCommerce – does it work?
There’s a term that perhaps not a lot of people have heard of – Gamification. In the eCommerce world we could definitely argue that our main problem is […]
Magento Model Basics : The Complete Series
Creating and manipulating models is a fundamental part of Magento development, so here’s my all-in-one mini-series on the basics of setting up a new custom model for your […]
Upgrading your Magento Website
I know what you’re thinking, here’s a great tutorial on how to 100% effectively upgrade a Magento website from any version to any new version without losing any […]
Almost two years ago I wrote a post called ‘Magento local.xml Boilerplate’ on the Magento Fox blog. It was quite a popular post and came in useful for […]
Limiting Collection Size in Magento
Sometimes you need to get a collection of objects from Magento but only want to limit them to a certain number. This is especially useful if your collection […]
Instant E-Commerce with Magento: Build a Shop Review
It seems like eBooks these days are all the rage. I remember a time when Waterstones was the busiest shop on the high street, and the smell of […]
Tips For Modifying Magento PDFs
Whether you’re creating a new invoice layout or adding extra details to your delivery note, Magento PDFs are notoriously a pain in the arse to modify. The reason […]
After coming back from Magento Live in London and listening to Hedley Aylotts fantastic presentation on Magento load speeds I decided to do a little test on a […]
Instant Magento Performance Optimisation Review
The Instant Magento Performance Optimisation How-To published by Packt and written by Nayrolls Mathieu is one of the few e-books that I won’t instantly delete from my computer. […]