Magento
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Magento database structure
The database structure of Magento is designed to store and manage various aspects of an e-commerce website, including products, orders, customers, and more. Understanding the Magento database structure is crucial…
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Accessibility in ecommerce websites
In the digital age, where online shopping has become an integral part of our lives, ecommerce websites hold the key to business success. Amidst the rush to create visually appealing…
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Using Magento to get small businesses online
For small businesses aiming to establish a formidable online presence and drive sales, Magento emerges as a powerful e-commerce platform offering a suite of features tailored to their needs. Scalability…
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How can I speed-up my Magento website?
Speed optimisation is crucial for a Magento website as it directly impacts user experience, conversions, and search engine rankings. You should prepare your server so it is set-up to use…
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.htaccess: Enable GZIP Compression for Magento
Enable Gzip compression on your server to compress your website's files before sending them to the visitor's browser. This significantly reduces the file size, resulting in faster page load times.…
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Popular Payment Gateways
Ecommerce payment gateways are critical components of any online store, as they enable merchants to accept payments from customers securely and conveniently. There are many payment gateways available in the…
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Getting started with Magento Open Source
Magento Northern Ireland Open Source allows you to build a unique online store from the ground up. Standard Features Magento Open Source includes everything you need to get your store…
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Magento - WebP image format conversion
An introduction to image optimisation in Magento Northern Ireland Image Optimisation is an increasingly important step improve page speed and search engine performance of your Magento store. Having a lot…
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Aheadworks switch to subscription model
Aheadworks will be removing Composer keys and download access for existing customers and switching entirely to a subscription model. From February 2022 Aheadworks announced it is switching to the subscription-based…
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Magento store hierarchy
Before you start building-out your Magento website you must first plan your store hierarchy. Magento's hierarchy is referred to throughout your store's configuration. Each store can have a separate root…
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Optimising Magento 2 in easy steps
Some (fairly) simple step-by-step instructions to ensure your Magento Belfast 2 store is running the best it can. While most of these options should only require access to Admin panel,…
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The future of Magento
The Mage Open Source Community Alliance have published an open letter to the Magento community to announce a new initiative designed to focus on ensuring the future of open source…
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Magento 2 Blog Extensions
While Magento Belfast isn't the go-to platform for blogs it can be useful for store owners to have a quick and easy way to post updated content to their store…
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Notes: Magento 2 Directory Structure
Magento 1 A brief reminder of the Magento 1 folder structure: app/code followed by either /core for core files /community for third party extensions /local for custom development Modules in…
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Magento 2.4.2
The latest version of Magento Northern Ireland has been released - Magento version 2.4.2 is the usual mix of security updates, performance and some improvements to the software itself for…
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What is Magento Open Source?
Previously known as Magento Community Edition, Magento Open Source is the ecommerce platform. Adobe which acquired Magento in 2018 has confirmed the open source edition will remain part of their…
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Moving on from Magento: OpenMage and Mage One
While many companies have already upgraded to Magento 2 or moved on to alternative ecommerce platforms like Shopify, many smaller companies or larger companies with more custom developments have stuck…
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Coronavirus: Ecommerce in a Pandemic
Online sellers need to keep on top of the impact COVID—19 is and will continue to have on retailers. The links below are some thoughts on how your ecommerce store…
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Coronavirus: Managing your Magento ecommerce store in lockdown
The UK has now entered lockdown with everyone being told to stay at home. The spread of coronavirus (COVID—19) continues to increase day by day and now appears likely that…
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Magento 2: Show address fields on the user registration form
This post shows you how to add the customer address fields to the customer registration page. It uses the existing setShowAddressFields method for displaying the address fields on the customer…
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Choose Magento ecommerce in Belfast, Northern Ireland
If you are a business in Belfast or Northern Ireland who is looking to expand your presence online, Magento is a great platform to take your business to the next…
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Magento 2.3.3
The latest version of Magento has been released - Magento version 2.3.3 is all about security and performance. Security Support has been added to Magento 2 for PHP 7.3.X and…
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Choosing the right ecommerce platform
Choosing the right ecommerce platform is an important decision for any business looking to sell their products online. The three options below are tried-and-tested ecommerce platforms that are used by…
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Magento 1: End of life
Magento 1's expected end of life is fast approaching. Many, many merchants are still up and running on the system need to think about what steps they are going to…
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Magento 2 Configurable Product Import
Magento 2 allows configurable products to be imported through the CMS. Unlike Magento 1 where Magmi generally did all the hard work when it came to importing and updating Configurable…
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Magento Code: Magento 2 Cache Refresh Script
This is a stand alone script which can be called to refresh the cache in Magento 2 The script hooks into Bootstrap to generate a unique instance without needing to…
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Magento Code: Magento 2 Indexer Script
This is a stand alone script which can be called to reindex a Magento 2 Site The script will create a unique instance of the Magento Object Manager and use…
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Magento 1 to Magento 2 Migration Process (Part 1)
While the Magento 1 platform is still active and supported there's less urgency to switch-up to Magento 2. There are benefits to upgrading to Magento 2. Magento 1 will come…
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Magento 1 Ongoing Support and End of life
Some thoughts on the expected demise of Magento 1. Magento 1 - Official End Date The official end date of the Magento 1 project was due to be November 2018.…
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Magento Development in Northern Ireland
Magento Developer I've been building Magento sites since 2009, from standard catalogue sites to bespoke custom-built product generators. I've worked on a range of Magento projects across Northern Ireland, the…
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Magento Belfast
Magento eCommerce was released on March 31, 2008, by Varien and developed on Zend Framework, it's a feature-rich ecommerce platform that provides merchants with unprecedented flexibility and control over the…
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Magento2 – Show/hide layered navigation on category pages
Magento Admin Panel > Catalog > Categories Click into the category you want to update and then expand the “Design”. To remove a layered navigation sidebar that appears by default:…
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Magento2 CLI: Set Ubuntu PHP Version to match LAMPP/XAMPP
The Magento2 Command Line Interface (CLI) needs to use the same version of PHP as your local web environment. You can check this by setting up an info.php script with…
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Enable Magento2 Command-Line Interface (CLI) on Linux
For both development, ongoing management and scheduled tasks Magento’s Command Line Interface is able to do it all. To enable CLI for Magento to you’ll need to make sure the…
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CMS blocks disappear after version 1.9.2.2 upgrade or SUPEE-6788 patch
Magento version 1.9.2.2 and patch SUPEE-6788 both introduce a new security feature to Magento. Blocks on the front-end have to be enabled or whitelisted before it will work. Blocks can…
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Magento Code: Seasonal sales link
A lot of sites have a seasonal sale which needs turned on and promoted at different times during the year . This code takes the ID of a sale category…
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Checkout problems upgrading to Magento 1.9.3.4+
Magento version 1.9.3.4 include patch SUPEE-9767 V2 which includes security patching for the checkout process. For your current front-end templates to work with this patch you will need to include…
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Upgrading Magento 1 through the Magento Connect Downloader
If you don’t fancy upgrading Magento 1 through command line, you can upgrade Magento core using Magento’s in-built Magento Connect Downloader. Load yoursite.com/downloader. Login with a user who has full…
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Upgrading Magento 1 through command line
Alternative: Upgrade Magento using the Magento Connect Downloader Upgrading Magento is a must to keep your store in top-top condition, protect your customers and your business. Upgrading Magento through command…
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Magento Server Transfer – Tried and Tested Method
Moving an entire Magento site from one server to another or between hosts can be a daunting task for non-server administrators. I’m going to try and expand this over time.…
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Ordering assets in Magento 2
This one will come in useful until Magento 2 sorts itself out. For some reason, Magento 2 has no way to order assets out of the box. There is now…
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Magento Code: Innoexts Currency Pricing Module Price and Special Price Import via SSH
Magento Code: Innoexts Currency Pricing Modual Price and Special Price Imports vis SSH Standard Price Import Use the following command: `php /home/var/public/html/magento/shell/Innoexts/CurrencyPricing/Catalog/Product/Price/Compound/Import.php --file-path /var/import/ --file-filename standard_price.csv` The CSV file should…
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Magento Code: Check an import directory for new product CSVs and process using a Magmi profile
This script will first scan the var/import directory for all CSV files starting “import-” using the glob() function in PHP. It will return an array of any files which match…
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Magento: What are Sage Pay Orphan Transactions?
This is a regular issue when using Sage Pay with Magento that needs a bit of explaining. Sage Pay transactions started by the customer are stored in the Magento database.…
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Create a custom URL rewrite/redirect in Magento
You can use a custom rewrite to redirect CMS pages, or any other type of page. For example, if you change the URL key of the privacy policy from privacy-policy-cookie-restriction-mode…
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Magento Code: Include currency switcher in the header or footer with Foundation mark-up
It is easy to set-up multi-currencies in Magento. This code allows you to quickly include a currency drop down or link to the header or footer of your Magento store.…
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Magento Code: Add a drop down attribute and display it on the product page in custom HTML
Magento makes it really easy to expand the usual product attributes through the Admin Panel. While these can be added to the product page in the standard attribute list table,…
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Magento header.phtml basic user account and basket code
Some useful shippets for including customer account and a basic basket/cart product count in the header of Magento. This should be added to header.html in your template folder, athough the…
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Magento Issue: Unable to sort configurable product attribute drop down options
Having encountered this issue a couple of times I though it was time to make a note. This is a fix for an issue in Magento 1.9 whereby the order…
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Magento product types and what to use them for
Magento comes preconfigured with a number of different product types. These range from simple bog-standard products to digital downloads and configurable products with a myriad of options and configurations available…
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MySQL TRUNCATE command: Quickly and easily clear out the Magento database
This is a simple list of SQL commands which can be used to clear out various parts of the Magento database. It’ll be useful when creating a development environment from…
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Session Management and Validation Settings in Magento Configuration
Cookie and session management is an important aspect of any ecommerce store. Everything from a customer’s cart, checkout process and recently viewed products is made possible by knowing who is…
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All-in-one Google Analytics tracking in Magento
Simple single script to add Google’s conversion tracking to your Magento ecommerce website. The code should be added into the footer.phtml file within your current template. The code includes tracking…
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All-in-one Facebook Pixel Code for Magento ecommerce
Simple single script to add Facebook’s Pixel Code tracking to your Magento ecommerce website. The code should be added into the head.phtml file within your template. This includes tracking of…
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Why you should be using Magento for your ecommerce website
There are many ecommerce platforms around, many offer a similar experience but time and time again Magento comes to the top of the list. Magento is the fastest growing eCommerce…
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Getting your product information ready for importing to your website
Product imports are an inevitable part of any ecommerce project. At some point the information you have on your products wherever it may be stored – EPOS systems, paper catalogues,…
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Add Facebook Pixel Code to Magento Success Page
Update: Instead of this, try the All-in-one Facebook Pixel Code method. It’s easier to maintain. Facebook Pixel Code is a new and even more complicated way to annoy web developers,…
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Quickfix: Quickly add a new Magento CMS page template
Sometimes it’s necessary to quickly add a template for a page into the Magento content management system. This can be done via a custom extension below is the quick fix…
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Magento Code: Bulk add a new product attribute to all store attribute sets
This little script is an excellent time saver for adding a new attribute to all of the attribute sets configured in your Magento store. There are a few attributes to…
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Magento Code: UK and Ireland counties for region drop-down in addresses
Full list of counties for the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Run this SQL against your Magento database to replace the existing region text box in Magento with a…
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Magento Issue: One Page Checkout appearing to jump to the bottom of the page after address is entered
This is a recurring issue with Magento’s standard One Page Checkout. It most often occurs when the template has been updated to include lots of big fonts and padding around…
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PayPal IPN notification errors with Magento
This one has popped up a few times in the past. When PayPal has been set-up and configured to with Magento the store owner receives the email below seemingly randomly.…
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Magento 2.0: An introduction to what has changed
At long last Magento 2.0 has finally be released into the wild. These are a few of the reasons merchants and developers should consider moving to Magento 2. Full Page…
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M1 Get your Magento store ready for Black Friday
This is an old tutorial is for Magento 1. An updated version for Magento 2 can be found here: Optimising Magento 2 in Easy Steps. These are a few simple…
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Magento: How to clear all caches through command line
When making certain changes to Magento, such as modifying source files, installing extensions, reverting changes, it is necessary to clear the cache in order for the changes to become visible.…
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M1 Import Values to Dropdown/Multiple Select Attributes
This code is for Magento 1, it won't work in Magento 2. Sometime when you need to deal with import of lots of values for a multiple select/drop down attribute.…
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M1 Batch updater for Magento Product SKUs
This is a Magento 1 script, it won't work for Magento 2. The script will loop through a CSV file and update the SKU on each product. This can be…
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Upgrading to Google’s Universal Analytics in Magento
The new Google Universal Analytics provides the opportunity for own measurement values and dimensions and allow you to track usage across platforms. Universal Analytics introduces a set of features that…
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Add Google Analytics ecommerce:addTransaction to your Magento Store
A quick and way way to record transactions to Google Universal Analytics. First add this piece of PHP to your success page at the end of the checkout process. Update…
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Add Static Blocks to CMS Pages in Admin
Static Blocks are an easy way to include snippets of code or text on many pages throughout your Magento store. They can be used to make a promotion or your…
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Useful Excel Commands for Magento Image Import
Magento image import can be pretty flaky with case and spaces in the filename of images being uploaded. =CONCATENATE("/",SUBSTITUTE(LOWER(F2)," ","")) The above code will add a “/” at the beginning…
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Magento Issue: Subtotal and Grand Total prices double at Cart/Checkout stages
Have recently encountered an issue with prices in Magento Checkout appearing doubled. There are a number of solutions online which seem to (in various combinations) do the trick. A particular…
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