Magento: Upgrading Magento with a full package
Backup your database Backup all the code you modified yourself, and don’t forget to keep the original installation archive Take care of saving the media directory that contains all the…
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Magento: Display products from a certain category
If you want to display a certain category on a page, add this code on the design tab and then replace [category id here] with your category id.
Magento: List Manufacturers Attribute!!
Go to app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product and created a new file called Manufacturer.php and pasted this block code: Then go to /app/design/frontend/[theme name]/[theme name]/template/catalog/product and created a new .phtml file called manufacturer.phtml and…
Magento: Shop by manufacturer with images
With this mod you can add images. Images must be the same name as the manufacturer and must end with .jpg manufacturer.phtml: /app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/ manufacturer.php /app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/ images: /media/catalog/brands/ you must alter…
Magento: View the newest products
1- create a new page called ex: Newest arrival 2- go to Design tab and add this code 3- save the page -------------------- Magento ver: 1.3.2.4
Magento: Create categories grid with images
This tutorial for creating a grid for categories with images.
You can do it without editing the core files of Magento
*Create a new file called “category_listing.phtml” on this directory “app/design/frontend/default/YOUR_TEMPLATE/catalog/navigation/”.
*Add the following code on that file:
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Magento: How to delete orders and reset counters?
After finishing the site and It’s ready to publish it. you will need to delete all test orders. How can we do it???
First: backup the database and the files.
second: go to PhpMyAdmin and run this sql code (more…)
Magento: Add new container block
You can create a basic “container” as is done with the “right, left, and content” blocks by just adding something like
<block type="core/text_list" name="myblock" as="myblock"></block>
to page.xml. From there you can populate it with content blocks via the layout files as normal.
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Magento: How to add a new block?
If you want to reference a static block from inside of a CMS page or another static block use this syntax: [html] {{block type="cms/block" block_id="my-new-block"}} [/html] If you want to…
Moving Magento site To Another Server
MySQL Dump.
backup all files (make sure to archive on a .zip file).
Now you need to create a blank database and import the MySQL dump file to it.
Note: load the SQL dump into Editplus or something similar and search and replace the URLs before importing for example: “http://www.domain.com/test/” replace with “http://www.test.com/”.
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