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hat is Magento Maintenance Mode? Ideally, maintenance mode is a way to display a nice message to users about your site while maintenance is being conducted. It should allow you and administrators to continue to access the store so you can test features and performance before going live. What do I need to put my … Read more
would guess that 30% of stores leave the default Magento favicon. Changing this is quite important as many stores are using the default icon which means your store has nothing to differentiate itself. Follow this guide to change your favicon. What is a favicon? You might asking what a favicon is. It is the image … Read more
t is common when improving your Magento store that you will install new Magento extensions and sometimes you will need to troubleshoot an issue. The best way to do this is to disable extensions and see if they contribute to a particular issue. If you disable an extension and the issue disappears, then it could … Read more
ometimes Magento will display a “Service Temporarily Unavailable” message. The message will look like the following: The most common cause of this issue is a file located at [Magento root]/maintenance.flag. If this file exists, then Magento will display this message. The purpose of the file is to put the store into maintenance mode when doing … Read more
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