Reindex Magento Indexes via SSH
The default indexer in Magento can be quite a time consuming process sometimes, a real time-saver if you have SSH access to your server is to work directly on the command line using the...
Author: Geoff Jackson
Create Custom Category Attribute to Override Category H1 in Magento
Sometimes you may want to extend the title of the category to more than just the name of the category without actually changing the category name (due to navigational elements). For example:- You may...
Importing & Exporting MySQL Databases on the Command Line (SSH)
Quite often, it can prove problematic dealing with large MySQL databases in a web interface such as phpMyAdmin. Working directly on the command line is far quicker and less painful if you’re having to import/export large databases.
The below commands only scrape the surface of managing databases directly on the command line but cover import/export.
Can’t open file package.xml for writing. Permission denied in Magento Connect
Sometimes when you are trying to install an extension in Magento Connect you will see the following error in the terminal window:- Can’t open file package.xml for writing. Permission denied. This just refers to...
INVALID POST DATA When Trying to Install Extension Key in Magento Connect
Sometimes when you try to install an extension with it’s key in Magento Connect, you may receive the following notice:- INVALID POST DATA This is caused by any index.php RewriteRule’s in your site’s .htaccess,...
Warning: Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions in Magento Connect
Please note: Read to the bottom of the article before using any code snippets from this content. Sometimes you may see the following error in red at the top of Magento Connect when logging...
Image Preview / Full Size Image Tooltip with NextGEN Gallery in WordPress
We grabbed CSS Globe’s basic image preview jQuery and queued the necessary script in WordPress. We then created a custom NextGEN gallery template so we could modify this to use with the necessary jQuery...
Force Removal of Store Code (?___store=default) from URL’s in Magento
You may have noticed that even when you have ‘add store code to URL’s’ set in Magento’s system configuration set to ‘No’, when you insert a link into the HTML editor via Magento’s widget,...
Redirecting Secure (HTTPS) Pages to Non Secure (HTTP) in Magento
Whilst Magento offers easy configuration for secure (SSL) pages to be enabled at the front end and back end of your store, it hasn’t catered for the redirection of https versions of your pages...
Delete All URL Rewrites In Magento
You may wish to delete all URL rewrites from URL Rewrite Management in Magento at some point, especially if you are frequently importing/exporting product and category data. Simply run the below SQL query and...
