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I spent some time over probably a period of a year+ trying to figure out why random shortcuts to programs or files kept disappearing on their own in Windows 7. Most annoying when you...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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,...
Development / Magento / Servers
by Geoff Jackson · Published May 30, 2014 · Last modified December 4, 2015
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...
Development / jQuery / Wordpress
by Geoff Jackson · Published October 18, 2013 · Last modified September 10, 2015
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...
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,...
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...
