Articles for the ‘Magento Tutorial’ Category

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 [...]

Add a CSS class to Magento menu links

Nov 30, 09 by lsd 1 Comment » / Filed under For Web Designer, Magento Journal

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 [...]

Parent category with image in a CMS page

Sep 30, 09 by lsd 1 Comment » / Filed under For Web Designer, Magento Tutorial

Get Magento parent categories listing with image in a CMS page A Magento project we were working, client wanted to show all parent categories with their respective images in a cms page, we did something similar before for other magento projects however they were called to a subcategory listing page by calling a CMS block [...]

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Setting up a second homepage in Magento

Jul 31, 09 by lsd 6 Comments » / Filed under For Magento Store Owner

Setting up a second homepage in Magento If you run multi-store in a single Magento installation with different themes (e.g. two stores), you need to setup a second homepage for your second store, and it’s fairly simple. Simply go to CMS > Manage CMS pages to create a new page with below setting: Page Title: [...]

5 Ultimate Checklist for Magento Store Owner

Jul 29, 09 by lsd 1 Comment » / Filed under For Magento Store Owner, For Web Designer

5 Ultimate Website Launch Checklist for Magento Store This checklist really is a common knowledge and a practise everyone should observed whether your magento site is developed by you utilizing a free theme or done by a web developer. We are astonished to stumble on many magento sites that went live without the final check. [...]

Different header section for Magento homepage

Jul 15, 09 by lsd 2 Comments » / Filed under For Web Designer, Magento Journal

Different header section for Magento homepage, the easy way We were working on a client’s site that has a JS slideshow places above the categories menu only on the homepage. With Magento, there are a few possible ways to achieve this, one requires hacking the core code (we didn’t try it but from the tutorial [...]

Spice up Contact Form in Magento

Jun 22, 09 by lsd 3 Comments » / Filed under Magento Journal, Magento Tutorial

Contact Form in Magento The contact form in Magento is plain vanila that consists of name, email address and a comment textarea only. This is good for most stores, but if you want to use the Contact form for service detail enquiry or collect more data, the plain vanilla simply can’t cut it. Spice up [...]

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 [...]

Static callout block for CMS page

Mar 14, 09 by lsd 4 Comments » / Filed under Magento Tutorial

Add a footer, Header or Content static callout block for Magento CMS page This article first published in Lotus From The Mud. Magento offers lots of flexibility for Magento theme design, but it takes a bit of digging and exploring before one can learn to do a new simple trick. In the Magento default template, [...]

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