Articles for April, 2009

Vertical Category Menu for Magento

Apr 16, 09 by lsd 4 Comments » / Filed under Magento Tutorial

Magento Vertical Menu using Peter Hamilton’s code In one of our premium Magento themes we implemented a vertical category menu with the code adapted from this thread. It’s quite easy to implement and to make it even easier for others, we decided to write a step by step tutorial. Add a new block type in [...]

Accordion Menu for Magento Layered Navigation

Apr 15, 09 by lsd 9 Comments » / Filed under Magento Journal

jQuery Accordion Menu for Magento Layered Navigation Layered Navigation is one of the many great features from Magento, its powerful filtering feature can be a great usability enhancement for an eCommerce site. However, if you setup too many product attributes for you store, the Layered Navigation maybe expanded too long and resulting long vertical scrolling [...]

Hide a Magento Category

Apr 9, 09 by lsd Comments Off / Filed under Magento Journal

Hide a Category from Magento Category Menu This is another simple setting that took me a while to figure in the early day of Magento learning. Today someone asked me how to do it thus I’m entering it to our Magento Journal. To hide a category menu, simply add a new subcategory (e.g: Sales) with [...]

Configurable Product in Related Product

Apr 4, 09 by lsd Comments Off / Filed under Magento Journal

Magento Configurable Product and Simple Product with custom options in Related Product Feature With Related Product listing, you will see a checkbox for each product, and you can click on it to add the product to cart, you can also use “select all” to add all related products to cart. Recently a client told me [...]

Magento upsell product

Apr 4, 09 by lsd Comments Off / Filed under Magento Journal

Magento Upsell Product Feature One more Magento behaviour that has wasted my precious 2 hours to hunt the ghost bug. I have three Upsell Products assigned to a product, but only two showed up. The behavior When a product is added to cart and it’s an Upsell Product of anther product, it will also be [...]