Form Validation in Magento

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

Fixing front controller reached 100 router match iterations

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

Magento eliminate render-blocking JavaScript

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

Magento Ajax Cart Up-selling Support to Increase Sales

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

Magento Affiliate Program Extension Released!

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

Magento Full Page Cache Improvements

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

Magento Store / Currency Switcher Released

xtendware’s Magento Store / Currency Switcher gives your customers a more localized and personalized shopping experience by automatically redirecting customers to the proper store and currency based on their geographic location. If you sell to markets that use different currencies or different languages, then it is important that customers view the correct currency / store view. … Read more

Magento Improved Indexing – Faster Magento Admin Backend

xtendware’s Magento Improved Indexing helps make the backend more responsive. Many stores will discover that in time the saving of products, categories, and other items becomes slow. The more products / stores that you have the slower it can become. This is a big issue because time is money. Employees will do less work in the … Read more

Magento Lucene Search Released

our Magento store product search allows customers to find the products they want quicker. Customers will leave your store if they cannot find the products they want. Around 43% to 50% of e-commerce customers use site search to find the products . Your store is losing a lot of potential sales if your search is … Read more

Magento Abandonded Cart Reminder Blacklist

xtendware’s Magento Abandoned Cart Reminder is a powerful extension that enables you to capture lost sales by e-mailing customers automatic followups after abandoning their cart. Based on feedback from customers, we have added two new features recently to make this extension even more powerful: Unsubscribe / E-mail Blacklist – nothing is worse than when a customer … Read more