by ExtendWare
dding Magento meta title / description to your store should be one of the first things you do after installing Magento. To do this is very simple: What is meta information? Meta information is important because it is one of the things bots such as Google look at your site to determine page relevancy. In … Read more
ormally your store will display a logo so that your business can be identified. Sometimes it is necessarily to change this especially if you are just creating your first store. To do this is fairly simple if you follow these steps. Go to System -> Configuration in your backend. Click on Design in the left … Read more
ou might have noticed when browsing our Magento extensions that we display the list of new products on our home page. In order to do this we are our using our Magento product sorting extension. To create something similar on your site, all you need to do is follow these steps: Go to CMS -> … Read more
agento includes a database abstraction layer and object relationship manager that is really great at ensuring data integrity and consistent data access. In general, you should avoid writing to the database and instead use a well-written Magento extension that performs the task for you. However, sometimes a direct query needs to be made whether for … Read more
What is Form Validation? When we say form validation we specifically mean client-side Javascript form validation. Have you ever filled out a Magento from and been told that a specific field is incomplete or includes bad data? That is form validation. This graphic might look familiar to you: How does Magento perform form validation? Magento … Read more
he problematic Magento Front controller reached 100 router match iterations exception is not a common issue, but it is certainly a big issue to the usability of a store and can be difficult to solve. Where is this Magento exception thrown? In app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Front.php inside of the dispatch() function. The following code snippet will give you … Read more
efer loading of javascript can significantly decrease the page load of your Magento store. Magento uses a lot of javascript and the browser will wait for this javascript to completely download before it renders the page. Now, the Magento Minify Javascript / CSS can eliminate render-blocking javascript. Site Optimizer already will increase your site speed … Read more
ur Magento Ajax Cart Extension has had a lot of features and fixes recently. Here is a run down: Up-selling ability Now the Magento Ajax Cart extension has the ability to list up-sell, cross-sell, related, also viewed, or also bought pages on the success page. This enables you to increase sales by putting products in … Read more
xtendware’s Affiliate Program for Magento has been released! Do you want to take your sales to a new level? Then you need to start an affiliate program. No matter how many sales people you hire it will never compare to 100s of motivated, commission-based, individual affiliates that concentrate on selling your products to their existing contact … Read more
xtendware’s Magento Full Page Cache for Magento has made many, many improvements recently. We have made small changes such as increased form key support and secure cookie support and large changes such as multi-level cache backends and faster secondary cache. Here is a run down of the two most important changes: Multi-Level Cache Backends – Do … Read more