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Set the default direction or ordering for Magento category-pages
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.
Build your own Magento override-module
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.
Troubleshooting ByAttribute
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.
Disabling Magento modules
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.
Fixing URL Rewrites with Magento
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 Sometimes issues arise when using these URL Rewrites, for instance when a cache is out-of-date.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.
Magento 1.4 cronjobs
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.
Video: Replace Magento Checkout Button image with CSS
February 15, 2010
By default the Magento theme uses a button-image to allow customers to checkout their cart contents. If you want to restyle this button, you'll need to alter the image - which is less than perfect. This video shows you how to replace the image with HTML-code, so you can style the button better using CSS.
Changing the ordernumber in Magento
February 12, 2010
When moving to Magento, some people might want to change the default ordernumber 000000001 to some other number - either fooling the customer into thinking this is a very popular shop, or when migrating from another webshop to Magento. Here's how to change that order number.
Video: Remove Estimate Shipping and Tax block in Magento
February 5, 2010
On the bottom of the shopping cart page of Magento a block with Estimate Shipping and Tax is shown. But sometimes this block is wanted. This Magento video tutorial shows you how to remove this block.
