Developing in Magento without these debugging tips can be challenging! Here is how you can debug magento: Turn on Template Path Hints Turn on error/system logging Turn on SQL logging Display PHP errors Turn on Template Path Hints Would you like to see the path of the file that is producing the HTML for each [...]
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At Innovate 2011 there were some big announcements, and lots of tweets (which are now lost in twitterverse). Here’s a condensed list with links to the released products: X.Commerce Fabric Released X.commerce is a message bus that sends and receives messages from capabilities registered with the platform. Download it today and starting integrating with the [...]
Mobile Commerce is exploding. All you need to do is hear a few statistics to know what if you have an online store, you have to have a mobile optimized website, also. Mobile commerce sales to reach $10B next year/$31B by 2016 http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/mobile_commerce_forecast_2011_to_2016/q/id/58616/t/2 Mobile commerce sales more than double this year http://www.internetretailer.com/2010/12/17/us-mobile-commerce-sales-hit-34-billion-year 50 Billion Connected [...]
73% of users prefer to use a mobile browser over a mobile app for shopping. *from www.emarketer.com For ecommerce sites, you don’t necessarily need a native app, but you should have a mobile optimized website. Why not have a ‘Mobile Web App’? What is a Mobile Web App? A mobile web app is a website [...]
In the Magento Admin where you set your Design Package you can also set an “Exception”. This will look for matched user agents and use the stated theme instead of the default theme. 1. Login to the admin 2. Goto System > Configuration > General > Design -> Theme sections 3. Click ‘Add Exception’ 4. [...]
A client recently asked to display the subcategories as tabs that switched the products to that subcategory. I thought this would require creating a custom module, etc… but then I realized I could use the existing Magento Product Tabs and include the product listing block. I assigned the parent category to use a static block [...]
It is very important to have trust logos on your website to help booster confidence in your store for your users. I mean they may have Liked you on Facebook, but do they really know you? Add Credit Card Logos to Your Magento Store You can add this to the footer of every page with [...]