There are countless tutorials around the web for setting up a Magento multi-store. Many of them are incorrect, many of them are incomplete, many of them won’t work for every hosting set up. Just...
By default, Magento uses the .html extension in all catalog based URL’s and quite often a site may launch using this default URL format. Most Magento store owners will be aware that from the Magento...
This is quite a common issue in Magento where some orders which were paid via Paypal get stuck in ‘Pending Payment’ status. After debugging the issue, often you’ll arrive at the problem of the IPN...
So on 19th April 2015, every Magento store running a version lower than 1.9.1.0 received the inbox message about needing to apply the security patches SUPEE-5344 and SUPEE-1533. This caused quite a stir amongst Magento...
If you’re running a Magento website on a Linux server, then there is a handy Linux utility which you can use to split your Magento log files located at /var/log depending on a variety...
We’ve come across this a few times, and usually we manage to rectify the issue relatively quickly but this time, we spent the last two days debugging this issue. Even reverting/switching themes and rebuilding...
Although rare, some eCommerce websites wish to completely remove the ability for a customer to ship to a different address than Magento (i.e force shipping to the billing address). In Magento, the billing address...
Prior to launching a new eCommerce website, at development phase, you’ll always have to carry out testing and this will require creating test orders and customers to ensure that all processes function correctly and as...
Sometimes you’ll find in Magento that your indexes won’t run and will either be sat in the state of ‘Processing Now’ in Magento or when you try to reindex them, you get the error...
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...
