A current project I’m working on with a client required to import 20k customers with address, contacts and profile data – a tricky task in itself. I managed it import this successfully, but noted that the addresses were set to Shipping and not Billing. This meant that customers could not be searched or filtered from … Continued
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
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
I’m currently completing a rather large project for a client. While I regularly make backups before installing any major extensions or conducting core work, yesterday I needed to make my first restore on this particular database. While Magento has a great tool for backups and restores, I always prefer to do it manually from either … Continued
So you may be like me and not need or want extra links in the Magento account area which don’t actually do anything. Personally, if they serve no purpose there is no point having them there. While it’s annyoning you can’t switch them off from the admin area, there are also no unique classes so … Continued
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
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.
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
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: