Today I discovered a Magento category that would not update. When I tried to update the category properties and save the category the ‘please wait’ dialog box remained on the…Continue reading
Generate EAN Barcodes for All Magento Products – Magento EAN Barcode Generator
Generate EAN Barcodes for All Magento Products Following on from my post about mass exporting Magento data, I had the requirement to also mass generate EAN13 barcodes from scratch for…Continue reading
How to Patch the Magento Zend Platform Vulnerability
Magento announced a new Zend Platform vulnerability on July 5th 2012. To patch the vulnerability from the command line simply use the patch command as show below, replacing the url…Continue reading
Magento Discount Coupon Code for Facebook Likes
The Facebook “Like” is an important Social Media Marketing tool. It instills customer confidence and enables new marketing opportunities. Increasing the number of likes your e-Commerce site has can sometimes…Continue reading
Customiseable, Printable, HTML Invoice for Magento – FREE Magento Extension
I needed to create a custom invoice that was easily printable for a Magento store. The built in PDF generation system (at least in earlier versions of Magento) was not…Continue reading
Upgrade from Magento 1.6.x to Magento 1.7.0.0 using the Command Line
In a previous post I documented how to quickly install Magento for a development environment (or a new Live shop I guess). With Magento Community Edition version 1.7.0.0 recently released…Continue reading
Magento Mass Import and Export of Product Unit Price and Tier Price Changes
If you ever need to manipulate basic product information in Magento on a large scale, for example mass price changes using the built in Magento export and import feature can…Continue reading
First Look – Magento with Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10
A first look at the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (running on my Mac) reveals a complete redesign of the Windows GUI introducing a more “tablet” style design with the Window Metro…Continue reading
Magento Get Customer Feedback, Reviews & Ratings FREE Extension
Products with good customer ratings and reviews improve Google search results and give customers more buying confidence but how do we encourage customers to complete product reviews? This Magento module…Continue reading
Rich Snippet Data for Magento Product Pages Improves Google Search Results
“Rich Snippets” are a standardised markup format used by Google to improve search results by including more specific or “rich” information relating to a web page, i.e. for…Continue reading