Articles for December, 2009

Use WordPress blog for your Magento store’s SEM

Dec 31, 09 by lsd 2 Comments » / Filed under Boosting basket size, For Magento Store Owner, Wordpress

We develop 3-in-1 Magento and WordPress matching themes, so we will focus on the pros to having a WordPress blog and show you how you can use a blog to help with your store’s search engine marketing.

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Extend the use of links.phtml

Dec 29, 09 by lsd Comments Off / Filed under For Web Designer, Magento Tutorial

In Add a CSS class to Magento menu links article we showed you how to add a CSS class to li or anchor tag in “action method=”addLink” that uses links.phtml, but you may not aware that you can use the same template file to extend a link block type. In this article we will show [...]

Asia Connect steals. MagentoExpert thinks it’s cool

Dec 12, 09 by lsd Comments Off / Filed under Plagiarist

Asia Connect steals again and MagentoExpert (magentoexpert) thinks it’s cool! Branko from Active Codeline had an entry on how Asian Connect (asia-connect.com.vn) building Magento business by stealing stuff. Today we found out one of our articles got stolen too, and folk in Magento Programmer thinks it’s cool. If you browse the site of “magentoexpert.blogspot.com”, you [...]

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Don’t desert your 404 page

Dec 11, 09 by lsd Comments Off / Filed under Boosting basket size, For Magento Store Owner

Spice up your magento store’s 404 page, don’t desert it Ideally, you should never let your visitor sees a 404 page. But accident happens and when it does, show your visitor something nice, useful, informative instead. First let’s see how other Magento stores do with their 404 page we randomly picked from the Magento showcase [...]

Magento product feed in WordPress blog

Dec 10, 09 by lsd 1 Comment » / Filed under Boosting basket size, For Magento Store Owner, Wordpress

Display Magento’s category or product feed in your WordPress’ blog If you run a Magento store and a WordPress blog, chances are, you would want to have your category or products feed show up in your blog, and vice versa. In this article we will show you how to do it for WordPress’ Blog. First [...]