by ExtendWare
ome products such as electronics, software, appliances, etc, might have electronic user guides, license agreements, and more. Magento Product Attachments will enable you to upload and associate these files with products, so that your customers can download them. The extension is very simple to use. Attachments can be categorized and can be restricted by user … Read more
pam is very annoying. Unfortunately, running a popular platform like Magento will make your store vulnerable to spam as bots exist that target Magento store. The biggest problem with spam is that it requires you to filter reviewed, support emails, etc, which wastes your time. Fortunately, we have a couple Magento extensions that can reduce … Read more
sing our Magento product grid extension or Magento bulk product editing extension can make it easy to update product information. However, sometimes you need ultimate flexibility that is only possible with a script. If you need to update product inventory programmatically you can use the following: $productId = 169; $stockItem = Mage::getModel(‘cataloginventory/stock_item’)->loadByProduct($productId); if ($stockItem->getId() > … Read more
e have seen blank screen issue a few times in Magento. It seems to be a problem that is fairly common. There are a few ways to debug this and a few potential causes. The absolute first thing you must do is view your PHP information and ensure that that display_errors and error_log is defined. … Read more
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