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 [...]
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 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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
