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Use WordPress blog for your Magento store’s SEM

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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.

Extend the use of links.phtml

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Extend the use of links.phtml
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 [...]

Don’t desert your 404 page

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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 feed.
In this [...]

Magento product feed in WordPress blog

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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 make sure [...]

Add a CSS class to Magento menu links

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Template file for link list menu
Ever wonder or ever hit your head on the wall what bloody template file controls the site link, footer link in Magento and how to add a class to it? That’s right, it’s the page/template/links.phtml.
The template file generates ‘first’ and ‘last’ class in li tag, but sometimes we need [...]