Administration of magento store can be quite annoying, especially if have large catalog. Check our collection of 9 Best free magento extensions for store owner that make store administration much easier…
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It is pretty common magento error. Even if you yourself don’t use helper, Magento admin does. You should always create helper class in your custom module. File location depends on module code pool and could be located in ….
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Good news everyone! Most popular slider plugin Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin now available for Magento platform as Slider Revolution Responsive Magento Extension. Slider Revolution plugin is slides display solution that works with all possible types of content with easy to customize styles, transitions, effects and animations. With this extension you can build responsible or […]
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We know that Magento provides great feature for translation of text strings in code. Such content that needs to be localized for different store views is outputted through __() helper function. It will search for data loaded from locale translation .csv file and if found match for current store view it will be replaced with it…
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Debugging takes 90% of php developement time. You often need to comment out a piece code. In case of single line it is pretty simple. But if you need to comment large block it could take time. Do you want to comment php code with one keypress ? There is pretty simple method to achieve […]
read more Magento has default new products block. It can be added to cms home page via shortcode. However, if you have multiple currencies and try to switch to different currency new products still show price in old one. This happens due to block cache…
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Like all other items in Magento store products have its own model and collection that can be used for getting list of products. So basic thing we do is getting instance of products collection: … At the same time we can specify which product attributes we want to get. For this we can use addAttributeToSelect method. You can specify them separately in each method or pass array as argument
read more If you try to load your store in iframe and did not successed you definitely has X-Frame-Options issue that is caused by new magento option that disable embedding. Magento team has added a new setting in Magento 1.9 Community Edition and Magento Enterprise Edition 1.14 : Allow Magento Frontend to run in frame. It is […]
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Magento custom module development has tricky parts that are not obvious for inexperienced developer. For example: you have created a router, but get 404 page you have created a layout, but page content is empty you have added new block to layout, but page is still empty There are no errors on frontend and logs […]
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At the beginning there was config.xml. It contain module configuration information for all “areas”, like frontend, adminhtml, global etc. Since magento does consist of a lot of modules resulting configuration object has rather big size. To reduce its size and speed up frontend developers decide to separate admin information from config.xml. adminhtml.xml was presented in […]
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