By finding this page, you most likely have had the same issue when trying to delete products, real or dummy in a new Magento install. The error when attempting to delete products from the admin section. The error message in the admin: How to Fix: 1. Go into your database using PhpMyAdmin. 2. Do a … Continued
On a current project, I had a requirement to redirect to the homepage once a user successfully logs in to their account. I tried a few plugins to no avail, so had a go doing it myself. Obviously Magento by default, redirects to the customers Account page although there is a setting in the admin … Continued
I noticed recently that Google’s conversion tracking code, usually found in the footer, has a set height of 13px as an iframe. This creates an annoying white space in your sites footer. When your footer is anything but white, it creates a 13px high gap underneath your footer which looks rather out of line with … Continued
A recent client needed to bring the tiered pricing seen on the product page into their category list views. While there is a few approaches in this, the easiest method I found was to add this snippet to the desired location in /default/template/catalog/product/list.phtml
For security, when I create a new WordPress installation, as standard – I will do a number of things to help protect WordPress. One of those things is to rename the default database table prefix from the default wp_. It’s good practice to do this when starting a new WP project, but you can still … Continued
So here’s a simple snippet for when you want to force a download of a file (such as a PDF, .doc etc), when a link is clicked. The default action will open the document in the either the same browser window, or in a new tab/window by using the usual target methods: Open file in … Continued
Previously, I wrote a short post with a snippet to allow full-size CSS backgrounds. This is great and I use it all the time, but this method will stretch the image background to the max width, thus height is in proportion to the width. What this means, is that landscape images will perfectly fit the … Continued
If you’re embedding videos into WordPress, possibly as a post, you may sometimes want to add parameters to the code to overwrite the oEmbed default behaviour of WordPress. This can be achieved by creating your own plugin or adding this snippet to your functions.php file. This example removes the related videos at the end of … Continued
It’s rather annoying having to tweak the compression of images to get under OpenCarts 300kb limit on images and files. When using PNG files for slides, I’d rather increase the limit than decrease the quality of product images to get them into OpenCart, especially as you cannot simply upload direct into the images folder (due … Continued
Here’s a handy snippet I’ve used a few times now. I find it handy for quick redirects should you want to send all other users to another page such as a maintenance page, coming soon page or other holding page. It allows all users NOT using the IP listed to be sent elsewhere, allowing those … Continued