Enjoy our blogs

October 29, 2012

We are happy to announce milestone 1.8 of MageBridge, the extension that combines Magento into Joomla! in numerous cool ways. MageBridge 1.8 introduces a new plugin-type for MageBridge Newsletter connections, as well as support for Joomla! 3.0. See the release notes for more details.

October 22, 2012

The Joomla! 3.0 core ships with jQuery, and previous Joomla! versions did not. Extension developers like us therefor included a custom call to load jQuery in the past, whenever it was needed. However this standard needs updating. Here's our proposal.

October 16, 2012

In the past, Yireo has seen so many Magento sites that were build using wrong procedures, resulting in corrupt Magento applications that could not be upgraded. The key here is that the customer (you) doesn't ask for quality with the right terminology, and the developer doesn't read the manual. Here are own guidelines, that hopefully can serve you to control your Magento modifications.

October 3, 2012

When optimizing your Magento shop for conversion, it is always good to pay attention to the Magento checkout success-page (URL checkout/success). You can thank the customer for purchasing, redirect the customer to a specific procedure. However, this page is only shown when you finish a Magento order. And after a refresh, this session is cleared - so a refresh of the success-page redirects you to an empty cart. This tutorial shows you how to improve this situation.

September 27, 2012

Transifex is a popular platform to assist in translations - it is used by Joomla! and numerous other open source projects. But support for Magento CSV-files was still lacking. Yireo is proud to mention that - thanks to a GitHub pull request to add Magento CSV-support to Transifex - it is now possible to use Transifex for Magento translations.

September 17, 2012

For some time, our BingTranslate and GoogleTranslate extensions made various Magento users happy by allowing them to translate products through their Magento backend. Many times, automated translations are off - making real-time frontend translations less perfect. Our extensions make a difference by allowing backend-based translations to be saved and optimized afterwards. Now version 0.2.0 brings various exciting new features to both extensions.

September 12, 2012

As of today, various of our Joomla! components no longer have support for Joomla! 1.5 - the previous version of Joomla! that became officially obsolete in April 2012. Here's a listing of our changed support:

September 4, 2012

With so many new web development tools appearing like mushrooms in fall, it is sometimes hard to keep up with it all. But one you must really not deprive yourself as a webdeveloper of is a CSS preprocessor. Currently, they come in two flavors: LESS and SASS.

August 27, 2012

Whoops, you modified a product in Magento, but instead of saving the product, you accidently deleted the product. And your frustration of course grows when you find out that Magento does not have a recycle bin. Our new TrashCan extension might be a life-saver.