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How to Upgrade Magento April 25 2012
I’ve been meaning to write an article on safely upgrading Magento for some time now, and with the release of Magento CE version 1.7.0 yesterday, April 24, 2011, now seems like a great time. These steps and commands are the actual ones I follow to upgrade client Magento sites, and I perform these core upgrades from the command line only. Please read through and understand all the steps before starting Keep Reading…
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Configure Magento Products by URL April 07 2012
Being able to link to a configurable product page with particular product options configured is clearly a valuable feature to have in an ecommerce platform. Both to satisfy one of the primary goals of ecommerce: reducing friction in the sales process (by having a product configured and ready for purchase for a visitor), and to meet requirements of services like Google Checkout by providing unique URLs to pre-configured products, are Keep Reading…
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Magento/WordPress Development and Deployment March 21 2012
First off, this post owes a debt of gratitude to Ashley Schroder and Colin Mollenhour, without whom it would not exist. The goal of this article is to describe a development environment configuration that’s ideally suited for developing and deploying version controlled plugin/extension code, that is plugged in to a much larger system codebase. This is precisely the situation when developing extensions/override code for Magento, or plugins for WordPress and Keep Reading…
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Adding a Notification Bar to Magento February 20 2012
One of the first modifications I wanted to make to my first installation of Magento was to create a simple notification bar across the top of the site for displaying announcements and notices to visitors and customers. My initial solution was to simply make use of the built-in Magento Demo Store notice, which I will describe next. Magento Notices Template A quick and easy way to display a notification bar Keep Reading…
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How to Exclude Traffic From Google Analytics in Magento January 29 2012
The Problem There are two typical ways of stopping your internal requests from appearing in and skewing your Google Analytics metrics. Both are outlined in this article from Google, but they boil down to two options: Filter by IP Filter by cookie Both are ok choices, but the first becomes unmanageable without a static IP, and doesn’t fit the laptop-based mobile development style that I prefer; and the second relies Keep Reading…
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