Change default weight unit for FedEx shipping in Magento

If your store offers multiple shipping methods to your customers, it’s important to align all shippers to use the same unit for weight. This is becuase weight in Magento is not actually a particular unit. Weight to Magento is just a number, so theoretically, could be grams, kilograms, pounds, tonnes, you name it. Realistically, you … Continued

5 Simple Tweaks To Boost Your Website Conversion

I love website conversion and find myself becoming more and more intrigued with attempting to master this fine art. It blends design, psychology, user experience, development and combines a deep understanding of how people actually use the internet and how they read webpages. Overall, it’s pretty interesting stuff. During the course of my studies, I’ve … Continued

Check if homepage with PHP in Magento

This snippet wraps around your homepage-specific code in order to only display when on the homepage of your store. The ‘home’ identifier may be different for your site so amend as necessary.

Make Newsletter checked by default in Magento

So when shopping online, you may notice that when you purchase items or register an account, most of the time you will have an option to sign up to their mailing list. By default, these are normally set to subscribe by default. Magento for some reason, won’t have this set to subscribe users by default, … Continued

Show content in specific category in Magento

Here’s a little snippet which allows you to enter specific content based on store category. This is handy if you want to show something on a page which belongs to just a specific category only. Likewise you can show either content A if on category and if not, show content on all other categories: