I was installing Magento on one of my commercial sites just to try it out and ran into this installation problem: The error message explains itself: there is a database connection issue and it’s probably because either your username and / or password don’t match or your account doesn’t have the privilege for this execution. […]
continue readingMagento & WordPress Integration
Magento is a well architectured, open-source e-commerce platform that are widely used these days. It has many professional and flexible functionalities, but one of the lacking features is a blogging tool. Its CMS is suitable to write static pages for websites, not for blogging. But there is another great open-source blogging software that is loved […]
continue readingMagento CSS Ordered / Unordered List Style in Product Description
Depending on your theme, lists of product short description may appear without any type as in “list-style: none”. This happens when the default list style is defined ‘none’. Make sure you define list styles separately for product short description, category description or other areas for such styles as a disc or an image. The fix […]
continue readingDelete Test Orders in Magento Using MySql Queries
Many Magento users find it very disappointing not to be able to delete test orders or at least to make them removed from the Admin Sales page. It’s a required step that merchants or developers place several test orders before they officially launch the site. Obviously, they don’t want their test sales mixed in the […]
continue readingMagento Table Structure
When you first look at Magento database, it can be overwhelming because of its complexity. The Magento database is heavily dependent on EAV (Entity Attribute Value) model. While the EAV model makes it easier to expand the database, i.e. adding your own entities or attributes specific for your store, SQL codes can be very difficult […]
continue readingChange Order of Blocks – ‘before’ and ‘after’ attributes
Use ‘before’ and ‘after’ block attributes to change the order of blocks. You can set the position of a block within a structural block by assigning the name of another block to either ‘before’ or ‘after’ attribute. For example, if you’d like to put ‘Product Viewed’ box below ‘Cart’ box on the right menu, you […]
continue readingChange Order of Blocks – ‘before’ and ‘after’ attributes
Use ‘before’ and ‘after’ block attributes to change the order of blocks. You can set the position of a block within a structural block by assigning the name of another block to either ‘before’ or ‘after’ attribute. For example, if you’d like to put ‘Product Viewed’ box below ‘Cart’ box on the right menu, you […]
continue readingMagento Speed and Performance
Magento is one of the most flexible open-source e-commerce applications that comes with lots of desirable features for shopping-cart sites. However, due to these various functionalities, its performance can be a major issue. Magento provides helpful resources in its blog and forum to improve performance including database tuning and server configuration modification. But in many […]
continue readingMagento Speed and Performance
Magento is one of the most flexible open-source e-commerce applications that comes with lots of desirable features for shopping-cart sites. However, due to these various functionalities, its performance can be a major issue. Magento provides helpful resources in its blog and forum to improve performance including database tuning and server configuration modification. But in many […]
continue readingMagento – AdWords Conversion Tracking
When you use Google AdWords to receive more traffic, don’t forget to track the traffic. AdWords Conversion Tracking is a free tool to help you understand how many users actually buy products or services from you. Installing AdWords conversion tracking codes is pretty straightforward. Open the file /app/design/frontend/your_interface/your_theme/template/checkout/success.phtml. Find the following code in the file.<?php […]
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