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August 20, 2010

The following FAQ contains questions and answers on Vm2Mage troubleshooting.

August 20, 2010

The following FAQ contains questions and answers on installing and configuring Vm2Mage.

July 17, 2010

A Magento order could be cancelled by mistake, but there is no way to undo this action - at least not in the GUI. There might be excellent third party modules providing this functionality, but you could also write just a simple PHP-script to accomplish the same task.

July 5, 2010

On Magento category-pages you can select how to view the available products: By price, name or relevance, and ascending or descending. Within the Magento backend, the default ordering (price, name or relevance) can be configured but strangely enough the default direction (ascending or descending) not. Here is a XML layout update that allows you to do this anyway.

July 5, 2010

The Magento theme uses two very powerful elements, with which you can modify most of the HTML-output of the Magento system: XML layouts and PHTML templates. Core hacks are very bad, so Magento allows you to override each file within your own Magento theme.

While this is no problem with PHTML templates, XML layouts contain many times complicated structures. If you could add your own custom XML layout file, you allow have to manage this file - separating your own changes from the core files. This tutorial shows you how to build a custom Magento module, that only adds its own XML layout file - so you can safely add XML updates to it.

May 22, 2010

When using the Magento module ByAttribute, you might run into some problems with the module itself or the XML-code it's using. This tutorial contains some frequent problems with ByAttribute.

May 6, 2010

While you're building a Magento shop with many third party modules, you might run into weird problems that could be caused by those third party extensions, or a combination of modules. To troubleshoot issues like that, it is useful to temporarily disable modules to see which modules gives you trouble. But disabling modules could be done in multiple ways.

March 18, 2010

Within Magento you have the option to add URL Rewrites (also commonly called Search Engine Friendly URLs) to make your weblinks more readable to both search engines as visitors. Sometimes issues arise when using these URL Rewrites, for instance when a cache is out-of-date. This guide helps you solve these issues.

March 16, 2010

On some points, Magento needs regular maintenance. For instance, when running a shop of which the products are updated frequently, it is needed to refresh catalog indices. Also the search-index might need regular updating. To accomplish these tasks you can run Magento cronjobs. With Magento 1.4 this is even easier. Here's how.