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... November 2022
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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... September 2022
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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... March 2022
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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... February 2022
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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... December 2021
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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... September 2021
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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... April 2021
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The latest version of Shopify Northern Ireland has been released - Magento version 2.4.2 is the usual mix of security updates, performance and some improvements... March 2021
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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... November 2020
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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... September 2020
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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... April 2020
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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... March 2020
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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... March 2020
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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... February 2020
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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... October 2019
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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... May 2019
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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... April 2019
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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... April 2019
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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... March 2019
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Some thoughts on the expected demise of Magento 1. Magento 1 - Official End Date The official end date of the Magento 1 project was... March 2019
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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... December 2018
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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... December 2018
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Magento Admin Panel > Catalog > Categories Click into the category you want to update and then expand the “Design”. To remove a layered navigation... June 2018
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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... June 2018
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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... May 2018
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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... February 2018
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A lot of sites have a seasonal sale which needs turned on and promoted at different times during the year . This code takes the... February 2018
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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... October 2017
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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... October 2017
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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... October 2017
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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... August 2017
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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`... June 2017
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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... June 2017
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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... June 2017
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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... May 2017
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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... May 2017
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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... May 2017
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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... March 2017
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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... December 2016
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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... November 2016
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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... November 2016
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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.... November 2016
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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... November 2016
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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... November 2016
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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... October 2016
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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... September 2016
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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... July 2016
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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... July 2016
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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... April 2016
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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... February 2016
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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... February 2016
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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... December 2015
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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.... November 2015
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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... November 2015
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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... May 2015
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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... May 2015
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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... May 2015
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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... May 2015
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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)... February 2015
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