A few year ago, I wrote a post on Magento and WordPress go together like Chocolate and Peanut ButterĀ and it’s been one of my top posts. So, I thought I’d write again about the two great platforms and how I approach them as the previous post is a little out-dated. I still love Chocolate and Peanut Butter š but my…Read Article
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If you run into a problem where after an upgrade from an older version of Magento to the latest the Password Reset page is blank then keep reading. The issue lies in an update to the customer.xml fileĀ that is not present in your custom/active theme. You can diff the base/default/layout/customer.xml file with your custom theme’s to see what’s missing, but…Read Article
Magento: Get a configurable products associated simple product data
| 27 Comments | MagentoWe recently helped a client with their Magento website. They were wanting to show a grid while on a configurable products page of all the associated simple products. This is an easy way to quickly show the customer what products are available along with their price. The first step is to determine if the product is a configurable type, otherwise…Read Article
An easy way to check whether the product being viewed is a simple product is by checking the product type. There is a simple function call for it as well.
Magento API Roles not updating
| 1 Comment | MagentoIf you or a 3rd party developer needs to access your Magento powered ecommerce store, then you’ll want to do so via the built-in API. Granting access to the Magento API is a fairly simple task. Giving a Role custom or full access is done under Web Services > Roles. Choose your Role, then select the Role Resources tab. From…Read Article
Magento and WordPress go together like Chocolate and Peanut Butter
| 42 Comments | Magento, WordPressI can’t deny my love for chocolate and peanut butter together. They are a perfect match. Similarly, WordPress and Magento have been a go to tandem for ecommerce websites that we design and build. There are several ways to get the two applications to talk to each other. I’ll go over a way to integrate both Magento into WordPress and…Read Article
How to mass update your Magento SKUs
| 20 Comments | MagentoWe recently worked on a project where we needed to update all of the simple product’s SKUs on a pretty large site. It turned out there were just under 1000 SKUs that needed updated. The reason for needing to change all of the SKUs was to make an integration…
Magento not sending emails to gmail and hotmail
| 10 Comments | MagentoA couple of our clients had noticed a problem that just started popping up. It appeared that emails to the free accounts like gmail, aol, yahoo and hotmail were not getting to their customers inbox. It turned out those services were just dropping the emails all together and were not just going to spam folders. A fix to this problem…Read Article